What is dancing?

Classical dance: Classical dance is based on traditional folk dance, refined, sorted, processed and created by professional workers in past dynasties, and passed down through long-term artistic practice. It is considered to have certain demonstration significance and classical style characteristics. Generally speaking, classical dance has strict procedures, standardized movements and relatively superb skills.

Ballet: European classical dance, transliterated from French ballet. Ballet was born in the Italian Renaissance. It became popular in France in the second half of the17th century and gradually became professional. It became popular all over the world through continuous innovation. One of the most important characteristics of ballet is that the toes of the actors point to the ground during the performance, so it is also called toe dance. Representative works include Swan Lake, Fairy and Nutcracker.

National dance: refers to a dance form that is produced and spread among the people, restricted by folk culture, improvised but relatively stable in style, with self-entertainment as its main function. National folk dance is a multi-level concept and flexible interface, which can accommodate various degrees of processing. Folk dance is the symbol of a nation and the soul of a country. It requires artists to re-create, from folk to folk, and finally back to folk. The advantages of practicing folk dance are: 1, strong interest, 2, cultivating dancers' temperament, and 3, making people feel happy.

Folk dance: generally refers to a dance form which is produced and spread among the people, restricted by folk culture, improvised but relatively stable in style, and takes self-entertainment as its main function. Folk dances in different regions, countries and nationalities are influenced by living environment, customs, lifestyle, national character, cultural traditions, religious beliefs and other factors, as well as the physiological conditions such as the age and gender of performers, and there are obvious differences in performance skills and styles. Folk dance has the characteristics of simplicity, various forms, rich content and vivid image. It has always been an indispensable source of material for classical dance, palace dance and professional dance creation in various countries. Chinese folk dance has a long history and rich content. Generally speaking, they can be divided into two types: Han folk dance and minority folk dance.

Modern dance: Modern dance is a dance school that rose in the west in the early 20th century, as opposed to classical ballet. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalism tendency of classical ballet, which is conformist and divorced from the phenomenon-single life and pure pursuit of skills. It advocates getting rid of the rigid movement procedure of classical ballet, freely expressing people's true feelings with dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement, and emphasizes that dance art should reflect modern social life.

Tap dance: Tap Dance (English: Tap Dance) means tap, which is a modern dance style. Formed in the United States in the 1920s. At that time, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their folk dances to the United States and gradually merged to form a new dance form. This kind of dance is more open and free, without much formality. Dancers don't pay attention to body dancing, but pay attention to the complex technique of hitting with the rhythm of toes and heels. In the tap dance performance, the performer wears special tap shoes, rubs and slaps all parts of his feet on the floor, making various tap dance sounds, and the dancers' graceful dance movements form a unique charm of humor, humor and expressiveness.

Jazz dance: Jazz dance is a fast and dynamic rhythmic dance, which belongs to extroverted dance, unlike the introverted dance shown by classical ballet or modern dance. Jazz dance is an extension of African dance, which was brought to the United States by slaves and gradually evolved into a localized popular dance in the United States. Jazz dance is mainly a dance that pursues pleasure, liveliness and vitality. Its characteristic is that it can dance freely, unlike traditional classical ballet, which must stick to one form and follow the inherent posture, but it is different from disco dance, which is completely entertaining itself, and it is still regular in freedom.

Second, the international standard ballroom dancing:

1, Latin dance: Latin dance is also called Latin dance or free ballroom dancing. Latin dance is a popular folk dance, which is characterized by being casual, casual and relaxed, and there is a lot of room for free play. It is a warm, romantic, energetic and fiery artistic expression with distinctive characteristics formed by Latin American people in the long history. It is deeply loved by Latin American people and has become an indispensable part of their lives. International standard Latin dance is standardized, strict and standard. It is a professional competitive dance based on Latin dance, including rumba, cha-cha, swing dance, samba and bullfighting.

(1) rumba: It originated in Cuba, and the music is 4/4 beats, with a speed of about 27 bars per minute. Rumba dance is characterized by lingering music, gentle dancing and graceful dance steps. Cubans are used to walking with things on their heads, and they adjust their pace by twisting their crotch to both sides to keep their balance. Rumba's dance steps inherited this feature. The original dance style blends into the modern mood. The movements are stretching, touching and charming, and the dance is lyrical, romantic and beautiful. Accompanied by touching and euphemistic music, dance is full of romantic atmosphere.

(2) Cha-cha: Originated in Mexico, the music is 4/4 beat, and the speed is about 365,438+0 bars per minute. Just right, the music is interesting, the rhythm is strong, the dance style is fancy, and the steps are neat and compact, which is popular all over the world!

(3) Samba: Originated in Brazil, the music is 4/4 or 2/4 beats, and the speed is about 5 1 bar per minute. Samba dance, with warm music, dynamic dance state and changeable dance steps, is deeply loved by people!

(4) Bullfighting dance: Originated in France and developed in Spain, its music is 2/4 beat and the speed is about 62 bars per minute. People have a special liking for bullfighting dance because of its majestic music, bold dance style and strong and exciting pace.

(5) jive: Originated in the United States, it developed from a dance called Jiteba. Jive removed all the difficult moves of Gitbari and added some skills. The earliest record of swing dance is a book about swing dance published in Europe by Victor Sylvester, a London dance teacher, in 1944. Pop, rock and roll and American swing dance all have certain influences on swing dance.

2. Modern dance: Modern dance is a project group in the sports dance competition. Athletes and men participating in the competition should wear tuxedos, modern dance clothes and bow ties, while women should wear long skirts and formal hairstyles at banquets. This project group includes five projects: waltz, Viennese waltz, tango, foxtrot and quickstep. During the competition, the referee does not score each pair of athletes, but only determines the winning order, and finally wins according to the top three in the overall ranking. There are five modern dances: waltz, tango, foxtrot, quickstep and Viennese waltz.

(1) Waltz: Also known as Round Dance, Slow Waltz and Boston Waltz, it originated from Austrian folk dance and is called "the Queen of Dance" for its graceful dance! Its main feature is that it combines lifting, swinging, reflexive and tilting, and dances with beautiful music, and the two rotate in pairs, which is warm and romantic.

(2) Tango dance: a kind of international standard ballroom dance, which originated in Africa and is popular in Europe and America. The speed is stable at 2/4 or 4/4 beats, mostly sliding, with few ups and downs. Its biggest feature is that when we move in one direction, our bodies move in the other direction.

(3) Foxtrot: It is a social dance with unique style. Its music is 4/4 beat, about 30 bars a minute, with moderate music distribution, light and free footsteps and cheerful dripping.

(4) quickstep dance: it is easy, cheerful and lively, so it is deeply loved by people. Its music is 4/4 beats, 50 bars per minute, and the slow rhythm usually takes two beats. The dance steps are light and jumping, full of youthful vitality.

(5) Vienna Waltz: Also known as Fast Waltz, its main feature is that it keeps spinning and the number of dance steps is very small. The music of Viennese waltz is called waltz, which is 3 beats of 56 bars per minute.

Third, fashion dance.

Disco: discothèque, originated from French, refers to those dance halls that play recorded dance music. Disco is the abbreviation of disco, which means record dance. At first, it refers to the music that black people dance in nightclubs according to recordings. In the 1970s, it became a general term for virtually any new dance music. Compared with rock and roll, it is characterized by strong, indifferent, metronome-like 4/4 beat and simple lyrics and tunes. It rose in the 1960s and 1970s, became popular in American black communities and Latin American lower classes, and soon became popular all over the world. Disco music alternately and repeatedly induces the internal rhythm impulse of human body with exaggerated strength, and the dance steps are more free, which can be played according to personality. When men and women dance, there is little physical contact and their movements are not exactly the same.

Rave: Around the 1980s, a group of young people set up DJ tables in warehouses, garages, seaside suburbs and other empty places, and then found some DJs to play songs and hold their own private parties. At that time, the acid house broke out, MDMA, acid and other drugs were used by young people at that time, and a huge emerging force burned from the underground subculture, which was the post-acid house rave. Originated from underground development, it has now become the mainstream commercial market, which has influenced the dressing, thinking and lifestyle of young people in the 1990s. The new music type "electronic music" leading this trend suddenly became another avant-garde music type in the 20th century. Going to clubs has also become the most popular activity for young people besides watching movies and shopping for dinner.

Street dance:? Hip Hop (English: hip hop, Japanese: ヒップホッププ) originated in sub-Saharan Africa and was the product of the development of jazz dance in the 1990s. Its movements consist of various walks, runs and jumps, which run through the head, neck, shoulders and upper limbs. Introduced to China in 1980s, it gradually spread as an active way of fitness communication.

According to the form of dance, it can be divided into solo, duet, threesome, group dance, group dance, song and dance, musical and dance drama. ?

Solo dance is a dance performed by a person to complete a theme, which is often used to directly express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and reveal their inner world.

Double dance, two people perform the same theme dance. It is often used to directly express the communication between characters' thoughts and feelings, and to show the relationship between characters.

Three people dance, three people perform together to complete a theme dance. According to its content, it can be divided into three different types: expressing a single emotion and an obvious plot, and expressing dramatic conflicts between characters.

Group dance, any dance with more than four people can be called group dance. Generally speaking, it is to express a general complex or to shape the image of the group. Through the change and transformation of dance formation and pictures, as well as the development of dance movements, postures and shapes with different speeds, strengths and amplitudes, a profound poetic artistic conception is created, which has strong artistic appeal.

Group dance is a relatively large dance work composed of several dances. Each dance is relatively independent, but it is unified in the same theme and complete artistic conception.

Song and dance is a form of artistic performance that combines singing and dancing. It is characterized by being good at singing and dancing, being good at both lyricism and narration, and being able to express the complex and delicate thoughts and feelings of the characters and a wide range of life contents.

Musical drama is a comprehensive performance form with song and dance as the main artistic expression means to express the drama content.

Dance drama is a dance work with dance as the main artistic expression means, which combines music and stage art (clothing, scenery, lighting, props) to express certain drama content.