Peacock dance, Pilates, Tap Dance and Street Dance, which is our national dance %A?

Peacock dance is our national dance. Pilates is a kind of exercise similar to yoga.

Tap dance originated from Broadway in the United States, and it is a folk dance, which was formally formed in the United States in the 1920s. Before this, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their folk dances to this immigrant continent, and these folk dances gradually merged to form a new dance form-tap dance.

Hip Hop (English name) originated in new york, USA, and was the product of jazz dance in 1990s.

It was introduced to China in the mid-1980s, benefiting from the American hip-hop movie "Break Dance" from 65438 to 0984.

Peacock dance is the most famous traditional performing dance among the Dai folk dances in China, which is distributed in Ruili, Luxi, Xishuangbanna, Mengding, Mengda, Jinggu and Cangyuan in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, among which peacock dance (Dai language "Galoyong") in Ruili, western Yunnan is the most representative. According to legend, 1000 years ago, the Dai leader told Ma to imitate proud as a peacock's graceful posture and learn to dance. Later, it was shaped by folk artists and handed down to form peacock dance.

In traditional peacock dance, in the past, men wore golden helmets, masks and peacock wings with braces, and danced with musical instruments such as elephant feet drums, gongs and cymbals. Dance has strict procedures, including all kinds of meaningful hand shapes, jumps, turns and other dances, and with a beautiful "three bends" shape, it has shaped the peacock's demeanor and natural scenes such as "peeping in the forest", "walking in the forest", "drinking in the spring" and "chasing and playing". Although the traditional peacock dance movements performed by men are often vigorous and forceful, with little feminine beauty, imitating the smooth dancing and graceful modeling of peacocks often fascinates the audience, ignoring the gender of the performers.

Pilates is a course to relieve the muscles of the whole body and improve the control ability of the human trunk. Its origin can be traced back to the concentration camp in the 19 14 war. Joseph Pilates, the founder of Pilates, was sickly since childhood. However, in his later work, he combined the eastern and western health-keeping methods, such as yoga, Tai Chi and traditional health-keeping methods in ancient Greece and Rome, and created Pilates with his own designed equipment and sports skills. "The first requirement of happiness is health. Our understanding of physical health is to achieve and maintain the unity of body and sound mind, abundant natural exercise ability, and happily and calmly complete various tasks in daily life. " Joseph Pilates wrote the above passage in 1945, which also fully explained the true meaning of Pilates.

Characteristics of Pilates: slow movement, breathing in every posture, especially suitable for office workers who lack exercise, need to contact computers for a long time and practice from nine to five.

Hip-hop is a street culture developed by African-Americans, and it is a kind of exercise to vent emotions. It is characterized by strong explosive force, and the movements of limbs are exaggerated compared with other dances. The most attractive thing is to bring a warm feeling with the vitality of the whole body.