Dance appreciation has two connotations: one is general art appreciation, that is, ordinary people watch dance art and appreciate its interesting charm; The second is a kind of professional art appreciation, that is, dance students or actors watch, analyze and study a dance art work as an important reference system for learning. What does this article refer to? Dance appreciation? The concept also has the above dual connotations.

First, the significance of dance appreciation

For general art appreciation, dance appreciation can delight the body and mind, enhance artistic accomplishment, improve artistic appreciation ability, gain aesthetic enjoyment and enhance one's aesthetic taste.

Dance art is an important art form. It is an ancient and young art, with emotion as the driving force, human body as the tool, artistic human body movements as the material, keeping a certain time (rhythm) in a certain space, externalizing people's thoughts and feelings, expressing social life, and having distinct performance characteristics. On the one hand, dance art is closely related to poetry and music, and sometimes even trinity; On the other hand, the art of dance is closely related to people's daily life: yangko in festivals, ballroom dancing, disco in squares, dragon lanterns, lion dances, waist drums, stilts and roller coasters. It can be said that dance is everywhere. From old people to children, from farmers to senior intellectuals, people have almost formed an indissoluble bond with dance. Therefore, dance appreciation, as the artistic appreciation of ordinary people, has the significance of improving in appreciation and enjoying in improvement.

For the dance art itself, the audience's appreciation is one of the important factors in its artistic creation. Without the participation of the audience, dance is not a real dance, and there is no artistic life. From the perspective of reception aesthetics theory and market economy theory, dance appreciation is both? Audience participation and its response evaluation? Is it another kind? Cultural consumption? Process. Moreover, the social significance and aesthetic value of dance works can only be truly brought into play through the audience's aesthetic re-creation activities. In this aesthetic re-creation activity of the audience, it is also a process of self-judgment, self-evaluation, self-practice and self-affirmation.

For professional dance, dance appreciation can receive aesthetic effects such as image, concreteness, directness, kindness and intuition. Through observation, purposeful analysis, summary, research and discussion, we can improve our artistic accomplishment, broaden our artistic horizons and achieve? Look at a thousand swords and then know the weapon, fuck a thousand songs and then know your friends? The artistic purpose of.

It can be seen that dance appreciation is of great significance to both ordinary people and professional dancers.

Second, the content of dance appreciation

The content of dance appreciation is basically the same as that of professional appreciation, but the level of professional appreciation is relatively higher. Specifically, dance appreciation mainly includes the following contents:

(A) Dance image

Dance image is the main body of dance art, including character image (such as Wu Zetian in the dance drama "Monument Without Words"), animal image (such as peacock in the dance "Sparrow's Spirit") and scene image (such as the dance "Flow"? Rivers? River landscape in the sea), we should have an accurate and comprehensive understanding of the characteristics and connotation of these images.

(B) Dance emotion

Dance is a lyric art, and we should have a personal experience and understanding of the emotional characteristics of each dance work. For example, the sadness of the dance drama A Dream of Red Mansions, the joy of the dance "Red Silk Dance", the lofty sentiments of the dance "Jinshan War Drum" and the love of the dance "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" should all be appreciated and moved.

(3) Dance style

National folk dance, national classical dance, national palace dance, western ballet, national ballet, modern dance (disco, break dance, soft dance, street dance, jazz dance, rock dance, etc. ), Latin dance, ballroom dancing, etc. Every dance has a different artistic style, which should be accurately grasped and understood.

(D) Dance vocabulary

Dance is the art of action. We should appreciate the use and combination of specific dance words in dance works, such as turning around, sucking legs, twisting the waist, shaking our heads, circling the field, stepping off, kicking and jumping.

(5) Dance theme

It is necessary to have a deep understanding of the theme of dance works, such as the profound meaning of beautiful hands, loving hands and helping hands in the theme of dancing Buddha with thousands of hands.

(6) Stage art

As a stage art, dance can't be separated from stage art, and it needs a comprehensive understanding of scenery, costumes, props, makeup, lighting and sound effects.

It is not difficult to see that dance appreciation is a kind of spiritual activity when people watch dance performances, and it is the whole process of feeling, experiencing and understanding dance works. So it is essentially a cognitive activity. But it is different from the general cognitive activity, but a special cognitive activity of dance works. Dance appreciation refers to the audience's understanding of social life, characters' thoughts and feelings and dancers' aesthetic evaluation of this life phenomenon through the dance images created in dance works. In the process of appreciating dance works, the audience will often connect with their own life experiences, arouse emotional resonance and arouse relevant impressions and experiences in memory. As well as a series of imaginative thinking activities such as imagination and association, to enrich and supplement the dance image of the dance works and make it more complete, vivid and distinctive. Therefore, we can experience a broader life content and profound ideological implications in the process of watching dance works.

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