Modern dance is a kind of dance with strong fluidity, and the whole body is moving in inertia. Next, I will tell you about the lifting skills and performances of modern dance. I hope you like it.
First, the lifting skills of modern dance
Correct lifting action can increase spicy feeling and expressive force, so it has more competitive advantage. Seriously study the dance technique of lift and develop the full artistic potential of this technique element, which will make you get the greatest benefit from it.
Artistic dance skills
What exactly is "lifting"? Rise &; Fall﹚ technique, I personally prefer to use "﹙Lowering﹚" to describe the well-controlled descending movement in standard dance techniques, which is one of the more artistic elements in dance techniques. Through the expression of lifting skills, we can enhance our posture (expressive force) and sense of elegance, and add our own characteristics to dance. Later, for different purposes, several changes were gradually developed to improve skills. Every dance with swinging body has different basic lift patterns and characteristics. The 3/4-beat waltz is a ﹙swing-arc﹚ movement based on a bar of music, which is similar to the contour line produced by pendulum movement. If you don't use rotation or linear motion, the basic lifting motion is swinging arc motion.
Typical aesthetic feeling of foxtrot
The typical aesthetic feeling of 4/4-beat foxtrot can also be improved by lifting movements. It is based on the unified wave action, which is the characteristic of foxtrot, that is, the dance steps have two beats at the peak and two beats at the trough. The lightness of the movement is the basic emphasis. When backing up, be sure to avoid the heel dragging heavily on the floor.
The quickstep is also a kind of 4/4-beat dance. Most of the steps are foxtrot-style movements, but there are also some basic movements, such as "﹙Quarter Turn﹚", "﹙Progressive Chasse﹚" and "﹙Lock Step﹚", which are based on waltz-style steps.
Second, we must pay attention to the key is
The fourth beat of the above steps must be the beat after the "﹙Closing Step﹚" or the "﹙Locking Step﹚" when the ascending action is maximum. How to make the lifting action reach the maximum height at the most correct moment? The dancers trained in this way will attract the attention of experienced judges most. Unfortunately, most dancers fall too early, that is, they start to do the descending step immediately after the end step or lock step comes out. Moreover, many dancers seem to be unable to control their descending steps, so they look like "falling down".
The dancer's body
Tango didn't rise, both technically and historically! The dancer's body must be stretched like other dances, but his knees must be more relaxed. Tango is different from other standard dances in this respect because it is based on the principle of heel lead (﹙Walk﹚), and its body weight must be concentrated between its feet in each step, so there is no body swing, and the basic principle of lift must be based on swing, so whether it is ordinary dance (dance) or Argentine exploration,
Third, the text description of "upgrading technology"
Many books have different definitions of ascension technology. In A 1eX Moore's book, lifting is to "stretch the body upwards and improve the leg muscles". The newly published Standard Dance Skills of the Royal Society of Dance Teachers (﹙ISTD﹚) defines the lift as: lifting and lowering movements with feet, legs and body, and adds the word "feet" to this definition. The International Dance Teachers' Association (1 DTA) said in more detail: "Lifting is to lift the leg muscles, straighten the knees and stretch the body upwards to improve the height. Usually, the heel will lift or leave the ground with the rising action; Descending is the lowering of the supporting foot from the toe to the heel, and then the knee will relax when doing the next step. Another element is added here, that is, the use of the knee. Knee exercise is absolutely necessary, especially in waltz.
Fourth, in Henry Jacques's book, the ups and downs are divided into three paragraphs to explain.
(a) Correct the behavior and muscle tension of the body and legs;
(b) the use of the knee;
The use of feet. In the skill book he wrote to NATD, he used a whole page to explain the lifting technology and nearly three pages to explain the different application methods of lifting. In addition, he added a detailed explanation icon for knee movement.
Example:
Waltz turn right (Waltz natural turn), man's action:
1. Bend the right knee and put the weight on the right foot.
2. Bend your knees slightly and put the weight between your feet.
3. Turn your center of gravity to your left foot. When the right foot is close to the left foot, straighten the knee gradually by rising (bend the right knee, put the weight on the right foot, and lower the heel of the right foot when the left foot is ready to move backwards for the next step).
4. Bend the left knee and put the weight on the left foot.
5. Bend your knees slightly and put your weight between your feet.
6. Turn your center of gravity to your right foot. When the left foot is close to the right foot, straighten the knee gradually by rising (bend the left knee, put the weight on the left foot, and lower the heel of the left foot when the right foot is ready to move backwards for the next step).
This is what a trained dancer should do. Although he may not be aware of using the above details at every step, the dance teacher or coach should fully understand the technical details.
On the other hand, I have read many pseudoscientific, lengthy and puzzling articles on the analysis of the lift. There is a circuitous explanation that the basic bar movements of the waltz are divided into six and a half beats (L- and -2- and -3- and). Waltz is not as easy to analyze according to rhythm as rumba dance, so it is foolish to analyze waltz according to rhythm!
For general non-professional purposes, it is much simpler to explain the rise and fall of waltz with password action (﹙word-picture﹚), which is similar to the rise and fall arc of pendulum swing. It may be easier to understand with a garden swing or a circus swing. Every swing back and forth is like the beat of every bar of waltz music.
When you hear your favorite waltz music, you may "see" your body swinging on the high-altitude swing with the music. This is the basis of the rising and falling arc of the English waltz. With each bar of music, the body will swing like a garden swing or a high-altitude swing.
Five, the basic elements of waltz swing
Swing rhythm! Draw the speed characteristics of the garden swing or high-altitude swing in your mind and describe the swing of your body and legs when you hear the waltz. There will be a short pause when the swing reaches the highest point, and then it will start to move downward. It is slow at first, accumulating speed before reaching the lowest swing point, and then gradually slowing down the leg speed until the foot movement gradually stops and ends. A short stay is a pleasant feeling, which is the basic element to create a perfect waltz swing.
Unfortunately, many dancers today use waltzes to choreograph, which often resists the correct swinging movements. They do too much syncopation, tracking and locking. And do four steps in the bar of triple time, so the swing feature in the dance is almost lost. But with good guidance and practice, even syncopation can make the swing distinctive.
The rising and falling characteristics of the right-hand and left-hand swinging movements of the Vienna waltz are similar to those of the "English" waltz. The most important thing is that the Viennese waltz has a shallow swing. Keep your feet raised to a minimum. In fact, in the sixth rotation, the male soil lifted his feet to the end position in a "flat" posture. To illustrate this point in detail, the ups and downs in this dance are almost entirely expressed by the movement of the knees.
abstract:
Tango is the most special dance in the standard dance, with no ascending movement. At first, it was included in one of the competition dances of standard dance. I think it's because when it first appeared in the early 20th century, there were only standard dance competitions and no Latin dance competitions.
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