The Soul Dancing with Scenery —— On the Artistic Beauty of Dance

What is artistic conception? The famous dancer Jia Zuoguang brilliantly expounded this point:? Artistic conception is the blend of scene and emotion, and the perfect combination of objective scene and subjective implication. ? Here, there are two aspects:? Meaning? , like a poem; ? Context? , like a painting. ? Meaning? It is the subjective thoughts and feelings expressed by the artist in the image he created, and the image is the basis of artistic conception. Dance is an art with a strong sense of artistic conception and form. It expresses emotion and lyricism through an intuitive, sensible, aesthetic and dynamic human body. If these trends are not vivid, unchangeable, novel, aesthetic and unremarkable, then the value of the independent existence of this art will be lost. So what is injected into the dance is only the subjective feelings of the creator, and? Shape? With what? God? 、? Love? With what? Scene? Only organic unity can create a beautiful artistic conception.

Every excellent dance work strives for artistic beauty. Dance mainly relies on movements, postures, steps and the rhythm of the whole body to express emotions and artistic conception. The reason why people are scrambling to watch Swan Lake again and again is really attracted by the artistic charm of this dance drama. It is the beautiful and moving dance image, colorful body language, beautiful music melody and magnificent dance design that are combined with various artistic factors in a complete and harmonious way, resulting in artistic beauty, which attracts thousands of people in Qian Qian and makes its artistic charm last forever. Therefore, in dance, artistic beauty is the soul of dance.

How can we create artistic beauty in dance works? Let's say, what is the artistic conception? Poetry? 、? Painting? So, like it? Poetry? So emotional, strong contrast; Elephant? Painting? In that case, we should pay attention to the shape, not the realism and portrait. Try to express the temperament and spirit of the object and the author's emotion through generalization, exaggeration and even abstraction. Also? Real? There is no artistic conception. The group dance "Ode to the Lotus" shows the artistic conception that the lotus leaves the mud but is not stained; "Yellow Loess" shows the rugged, unrestrained and yearning for life of the people on the Loess Plateau, which is shocking and inspiring.

The artistic conception of dance is expressed through various artistic means. The depth of the theme, modeling means, including action (dance vocabulary), posture modeling, skills and so on. It is an important factor in creating artistic beauty. The men's group dance "The Man Who Beats the Meat and Swallows" refines what people are used to and sublimates it into stage art. Here, the director uses a towel as a prop and waves it up and down. The rhythm is from slow to fast, and all the emotions of the characters are expressed incisively and vividly with this prop. The image vividly shows the unique life customs of Rong adults. Reminiscent of the man's voice in the deep alley and the happy and satisfied smile when harvesting. In addition, the color, modeling and sound (music) on the stage are also indispensable artistic means to create artistic conception. Red has vitality and can arouse people's warm and excited emotions; Green is the color of nature itself, symbolizing beauty and peace; White is bright and pure, like cold; Black is deep and dignified, which makes people solemn ... Various colors have different characteristics and can arouse people's rich associations.

Modeling is also one of the means to form artistic conception. Dance creates images in sports. Since it is a movement, there will be a direction and trajectory of movement, which is the line of dance. The emotional reactions caused by various lines and characters are different. But it corresponds to some emotions. Such as horizontal lines, give people stability and tranquility; The vertical line has a sense of oppression that is directly forced; Seemingly promising; Curves and wavy lines give a soft and changeable feeling. For example, the group dance "Creek, River and Sea" is the change of lines, showing a kind of artistic conception from trickle to river and sea.

Sound (music) is also one of the forms of creating artistic conception. Dancing is a rhythmic movement. Therefore, the melody, rhythm and style of dance music will have a great influence on the composition of dance artistic conception.