How to arrange dances according to songs?

I. Background Analysis With the progress of China society, children's art education is heating up rapidly. For so many children who are eager to be influenced and baptized by art, I often ask myself such a question. What should I teach these innocent and lovely children? During my time in children's education, I found that although the current art education (including children dance) is in full swing, behind his prosperity, it has also fallen into a serious "misunderstanding". Its disadvantages mainly include the following two aspects: First, children dance is full of "imitation" and "cloning". When we watch children's programs now, we will always find that children now have a maturity that is extremely disproportionate to their actual age. They sang and danced affectedly. The innocent, lively and unrestrained "true self" that children should have is extremely suppressed. The main reason is that many teachers can't create excellent children's dance works by themselves. Therefore, when arranging children dance, we can only imitate, adapt or imitate the adult dance or children dance on the CD, so on the one hand, the teacher saves time and effort, on the other hand, the dance movements created by the teacher are very poor, so the so-called clever woman can't cook without rice. Second, the current level of school teachers is different. At present, schools in our county are generally music teachers and dance teachers. Teachers themselves have not received professional training. They usually arrange programs and take dance classes according to their own experience, but they don't know how to accumulate dance movements. Some have dance movements, but they don't know how to arrange them. Judging from the above two disadvantages, in order to promote the development of children's dance in our county in the direction of self-creation, narrow the distance from developed areas, truly let children dance their own personalities and their own languages, truly open up a sky of their own for children's dance in our county, create works with personality and standards, and cultivate a group of talents with artistic potential, we must let more dance teachers master the methods of accumulating and arranging children's dance movements, because there is no art with personality. Dance movements are just like words, phrases and slang that people use to write articles. Without them, talking about dance creation will become water without a source and a tree without a root. I have been engaged in teaching and directing children's dance for 8 years, and the dance "Star of Hope" won the second prize of the fourth primary and secondary school students' literary performance; "Mother's Wish" won the first prize of group dance in the first primary and secondary school art festival in the county; Drunk drum baby won the first prize of small dance in the second primary and secondary school art festival in the county and the Hangzhou Excellence Award; "Green Sorrow" won the first prize of group dance in the second primary and secondary school art festival in the county; "Sailing" won the grand prize of small dance in the third primary and secondary school art festival in the county and the Hangzhou Excellence Award. All these achievements come from the continuous accumulation and arrangement of dance movements. Below, I will talk about the accumulation and arrangement of children's dance movements in combination with practice. Second, the general rules of children's dance movements Before talking about the accumulation and arrangement of children's dance movements, we must first understand the general rules of dance movements. Only by mastering its regularity can we better accumulate and arrange dance movements and better apply them to dance teaching and arrangement practice. 1, children dance's movements should be visualized and personalized. The characteristic of dance art is to reflect life and shape characters through dance movements. However, not all dance movements can complete the task of reflecting life and shaping characters. Only accurate, vivid and vivid actions can paint colorful life pictures and create vivid characters, thus attracting people, infecting people and then affecting people's thoughts and feelings. For example, the group dance "Silkworm Baby" performed by a small town in the third art festival of the county has created a shape with the appearance characteristics of silkworms, especially a slow-moving body like silkworms. The image is very vivid, and the dance artistically shows the whole process of silkworm from the baby to the last silkworm, which not only shows the spirit of selfless dedication of silkworm, but also praises the spirit of conscientious and selfless dedication of people from all walks of life, including teachers. 2. Children's dance movements should be full of emotion, and the condensed dance movements have something in common with the language of poetry. The preface to The Book of Songs says: "A poet's ambition is also based on his heart, and his words are poems. Emotion moves in the middle and forms in words. Sighing is not enough; Lament its lack, so sing it; I don't sing enough, I can't dance with my hands, I can dance with my feet. "It can be seen that dance is the image reflection of people's thoughts and feelings in a state of high excitement, and so is children dance. Like poetry, it should try its best to refine and concentrate the movements, show the broad and rich contents of life, and make the audience feel compact, full and imaginative. For example, there is a scene in children dance's Sunflower: dozens of small actors hold double fans and dance in a row from the left back side of the dance to the right front corner of the dance. The actors shook their double fans and slowly unfolded them along the direction of progress, just like hundreds of millions of children who opened their hearts, bathed in the morning glow and embarked on the glorious future of the socialist motherland with passion. Another example is children dance's Star of Hope, which I created myself. Finally, in the melody of Dedication of Love, all the actors hold a heart in their hands and slowly lift it to the top of their heads, just like there is love everywhere in the world, warmth everywhere, no more indifference and pain ... leaving a deep impression on the audience and endless leisure. 3. Children's dance movements should be novel and diverse. Social life is rich, complex and changeable. If dance art wants to truly and vividly reflect the ever-changing and changing life, it is by no means a poor and monotonous language that can work. In addition, dance, as a performing art, needs to attract the attention of the audience, and must reflect the public's concerns quickly, sensitively, innovatively and diversely according to the needs of real life. For example, the children's dance "Donald Duck Dancing Yangko", directed by Guo Zihui, organically combines Donald Duck's posture with China Han Yangko. Through the funny and lovely shape of Donald Duck in the cartoon, China's national dance yangko is wrestled, and the combination of Chinese and western styles makes people laugh. All kinds of explorations and attempts for the novelty and diversity of dance like this are worth learning. 4. Children's dance movements should have clear rhythm and rich rhythm. Dance should be in harmony with music. Many Chinese and foreign children dancers have always emphasized the relationship between music and dance. For example, "music is the soul of dance", "rhythm is the basic element of dance" and so on. Although some exaggerate the role of music and rhythm, it is enough to see that the combination of distinct rhythm and music is one of the most obvious characteristics that distinguish dance movements from other artistic languages. The "Four Little Swan Dances" in the world-famous Swan Lake can be called the perfect combination of dance and music. It not only has beautiful musical tunes, but also has a strong sense of rhythm and the inherent sense of rhythm of dance movements, which enables the audience to achieve a high degree of unity of visual image and auditory image when enjoying dance, thus having a strong artistic appeal. Third, the accumulation of children's dance movements, the accumulation of children's dance movements can not be completed in a day or two. It takes a long time and a lot of hard work. Here I will talk about some practical experience. 1. The accumulation of children dance's movements from life practice is the source of artistic creation, and the production of dance works and dance images also comes from life. Only by being familiar with life and understanding it can we talk about the accumulation of life. Comrade Zhou Enlai said: "Long-term accumulation, accidental acquisition. "There are many sources of life accumulation, but the most important thing is to observe and experience the income from life. In addition, we can also be inspired by the life reflected by literary works, reports, news, website introductions, or other works of art, whether directly or indirectly, we should start from loving life and absorb the "nutrition" of life anytime and anywhere, just like blotting paper, and never let go of a little "juice" wherever we go. Think, understand and save the life materials you have learned from your own (dance major) aesthetic point of view-just like an orderly warehouse. On the basis of rich life accumulation, creativity will continue to emerge when it is necessary to create. For children's dance teachers, being familiar with the depth and breadth of life is no different from other literary and artistic creators. The difference and the most important thing is to be good at thinking in images while being familiar with life. If you just hunt for labor luck, you will only create a simulation of the production process, not dancing, which is certainly not desirable. In the process of accumulating dance movements, we should be good at linking the movements in life with dance movements, which is the image thinking of dance. When children dance's screenwriters observe and experience life, they use the thinking of dance images to capture the material of life and the dance images in life. For example, a certain kind of life has given us a strong impression, so what is aroused in our minds is the action association of some characters and situations, and then we gradually use dance techniques to see how the characters perform and what scenes the life scenes have produced. So everything strongly felt in life gradually formed rich dance movements in my mind. Take "Bi Yi Bi", the first prize work of the National Children's Song and Dance Video Contest, as an example: The author Shen Xiang saw a tug-of-war contest held by a first-grade elementary school student on the playground from the activity class. He found that the children in the winning group clapped their shoulders and cheered happily, while the children in the other group complained and even quarreled with each other and wanted to compete again. Seeing this, the dance teacher thinks through dancing. Very smoothly, this accumulation in life is vividly transformed into a dance action: the actors put their arms around each other's waist, take small steps, kick their legs again, then shake their heads, finally move up and down, look forward, move backwards with the movement of the rope, and then lift their legs briskly. This series of movements is the dance movements that have been processed by dance image thinking. Not as realistic as the camera, but it has outlined the form and atmosphere of children's tug-of-war competition. Besides accumulating in real life, we should also collect dance materials anytime and anywhere. Such as: collecting and learning people's wedding, funeral and festive etiquette from all over the country; Worship of gods and exorcism dance in temples. In short, the more you master this kind of material, the wider your vision, the wider your creative field and the richer your dance movements. Otherwise, it is difficult to create independently. Imagine how a writer with poor vocabulary and language can write vivid and touching articles and plays. In short, practice has proved that grasping the accumulation of "life materials" and "dance materials" is the "duty" that children's dance writers can't relax from beginning to end, and it needs persistent physical and mental labor to succeed. 2. Accumulate children's dance imagination from various artistic knowledge-association and fantasy are an important feature of image thinking. Gorky said: "Imagination is essentially thinking about the world, but it mainly uses images to think about the' world'. "If an actor in children dance doesn't have rich imagination, he can't create a higher, stronger, more typical, more ideal and more concentrated image in real life. Especially for the dance art, which has always been regarded as "moving poetry and living painting", it is good at expressing people's lofty feelings and is a kind of expressive art that pursues ideal beauty. What we call imagination is based on the imagination of life and the sublimation of "life accumulation"; It is the image thinking of developing life; It is the ability to make life more ideal and vividly reappear in art. In real life, it is impossible to experience everything with one's energy, but imagination can supplement the lack of life experience-fly wider with the wings of imagination, thus creating more ideal and perfect dance movements by analogy. Imagination comes from the accumulation of life and also from profound artistic knowledge. For example, various works of art can indirectly provide you with more knowledge of life, inspire you to think in a wider image and enrich your imagination. Seeing a good work of art always has an inspiring charm, especially between sister arts. For children dancers with rich life accumulation and artistic knowledge, sometimes a good painting and a good song will help and inspire dancers to carry out dance thinking activities vividly, and many dance movements with the same theme will be derived from them, which is also an indispensable way to accumulate dance movements. Therefore, children dancers should learn and get in touch with all kinds of artistic knowledge, such as literature, music, painting, opera, historical knowledge, folklore and psychology, just like the land that has been suffering from drought for a long time. In a word, the more profound your knowledge, the stronger your artistic imagination, and the stronger your ability to accumulate and derive dance movements. At all times and in all countries, successful writers and artists have mastered all kinds of knowledge and skills. Cao Xueqin, a great writer in Qing Dynasty, not only has profound attainments in poetry and ode, but also is good at painting and calligraphy. ........................................................................................................................, a writer and artist who is familiar with landscape architecture, pharmacology, flowers and embroidery, can't create excellent works of art and form his own style and genre without a variety of hobbies and profound knowledge. Imagine how a person with poor knowledge and shallow knowledge can create rich dance movements and use various movements to create a beautiful realm that is reminiscent of people! 3. Accumulate children dance movements from traditional folk dances. China's 5,000-year history of civilization has created rich cultural heritage of classical and folk dances for all ethnic groups in China. According to the incomplete statistics in 1989 by Chen Chong, deputy editor-in-chief of China Folk Dance Integration, "there are 17636 kinds of folk dances of 56 ethnic groups in China (supplemented by Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). Among them, Han dance 1429 1 and minority dance 3345. Among more than 300 kinds of traditional operas and dramas in China, there are tens of thousands of traditional classical dances. Although it is still impossible to count how many kinds of dances there are and how many kinds of dance moves there are, its richness is obvious to all. As long as you make up your mind to study China traditional folk dance deeply and practically, it is not difficult to master rich dance movements. Learning and inheriting national traditional dances cannot be absorbed blindly without thinking. We must rationally process and sort out all kinds of dance movements, take their essence and discard their dross. Only in this way can I truly become my own thing and have it for me. 4. children dance action, ballet and modern dance are all accumulated from the dance cultures of all countries in the world. Today, ballet and modern dance are not exclusive to a certain country, but have become international dance art ... Their rich and varied dance movements are of great help to our children's dance creation. There are many examples in this regard in the fourth art festival for primary and middle school students in our county. For example, the group dance "Xi's Two Snowflakes" of Nanshan School absorbs the advantages of ballet, which is light, smart and straight, giving people a refreshing sense of brightness. The modern dance "Dancing for Life" of Chun 'an TV University jumped out of the unique vibration and emotion of dance and left a very deep impression on people. These are representative works of learning and drawing lessons from children dance's movements. Besides ballet and modern dance, folk dances all over the world also provide us with a very broad learning space. Therefore, we should seize all possible learning opportunities and learning conditions and constantly enrich and enrich ourselves. However, learning and drawing lessons from foreign dance movements must be absorbed and melted, and combined with the characteristics of children dance in this region, it can be skillfully transformed into its own self-centered innovation. Only in this way can such actions have real vitality, and never engage in "welding" mechanically. Just like a person speaking, if some English words, Russian words or French and Japanese appear from time to time in Chinese, it will be extremely uncoordinated and will lead to the failure of creation. Fourth, the arrangement of children dance's movements A successful children dance's works, in addition to accumulating rich dance movements, is more important to combine the arrangement and application of movements. These accumulated children dance movements must be refined and carved according to the needs of the content and characters. 1, the action arrangement should reflect feelings. Emotion is moved by emotion, so dance movements are produced. However, some children dance screenwriters often unconsciously wander in the circle of one-sided pursuit of action and beautiful composition. The first thing in choreography is to find the feelings and personality you want to express. Experienced children dance screenwriters often design the continuous emotions, consciousness and even subtext of the characters according to the clues of the dance structure, and carve the movements along this vein. Children dancers with rich experience as actors should let themselves enter the role first and let the characters in their works live on themselves; On the basis of deepening the role, find and refine the dance image needed by this situation and scene from the accumulated life and dance materials. This creative method, which is similar to the sketch exercise of a dramatic actor, conforms to the law of children dance's creation, that is, taking experience as the driving force of action. 2. The action arrangement should be typical. This is the key to success. Typical dance movements are not the more comprehensive the better, but the stronger the personality-a person should have a prominent personality; Second, we must have clear feelings. People have seven emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, joy, love, evil and desire. When you are happy, you will cheer; When you are sad and angry, you will stamp your feet and punch; Hope to make people hold their heads high; Disappointment depresses people; ..... children's performance in this respect is more obvious and exaggerated. When designing children dance's movements, we must first make clear what it feels like, and the movements should have distinct personality. Personality includes the personality of the role and its national style. For example, children dance's "Red Silk Dance" adopts the action of "liberating yangko", which has both the distinct personality of the Han nationality and the unique vitality of children. This action is very typical. Many practical experiences show that it is a successful shortcut to extract the required children dance movements from ethnic and folk dance materials (including operas). These folk dance movements, tempered and accumulated from long-term national life, have outstanding typical characteristics. If properly used, they will shape the dance image of people who are naturally dynamic. 3. Action arrangement should highlight "artistic conception". The arrangement of children's dance movements is not "complicated" and "simple", but it can highlight "artistic conception" and be spiritual. The artistic conception of dance works is to transform the theme into poetic artistic conception, the unity of emotion, meaning and scenery, and the ideal of human beings-higher than what is thought in real life. For example, children dance's Red Silk Dance takes the red flag flying in front of Tiananmen Square as the choreography atmosphere. Lotus Dance expresses the theme of infinite love for new China with the artistic conception of "high blue sky, long green water and lotus fragrance in the wind". Therefore, "artistic conception" is the overall situation, and the director should focus on the overall situation, start with small things (actions) and consider actions around "artistic conception". Don't think that dancing is just flowers flying up and down, and it is easy to fail if you only work hard on gorgeous movements and skills. In fact, there are not many actions. From beginning to end, the lotus dance only uses the footwork of "running around the field", but under the background of "Lotus Plate" (props), it creates a beautiful and noble lotus floating on the water. People simply don't pay attention to whether its movements are simple or not, but revel in the fascinating "artistic conception". 4. There should be comparative changes in action arrangements. Just like speaking vividly requires restraint, promotion, pause and frustration, the composition of dance movements should also be contrasted and changed, and should be smooth. Contrast is fast and slow in time (rhythm), strong and weak, long and short. There are big and small (modeling), tall and short, square (sharp lines, flat and angular), round (soft and round), unfolding (stretching) and gathering (shrinking), moving and static. These contrast changes in children dance should not be a formal arrangement, but a promotion of the inner feelings of the characters. For example, in life, when people are stimulated to cause changes in their inner feelings, they will feel nervous or relaxed, high or depressed, anxious or calm. The change of dance movements also comes from this. Contrast action increases the ups and downs of emotional changes, making all kinds of emotions more prominent in relative. So it can make the dance movements more vivid. 5. The action arrangement should be repeated. This is also a common technique in music. Music, as the art of sound, is often fleeting, and composers should try their best to make the audience leave a deeper impression on music, among which repetition and reproduction are one of the ways. Dance and music are both secular arts. Although dance still occupies a spatial image, it can't stay there forever as a "sculpture" for everyone to watch. In order to keep the dance image and "artistic conception" in the audience's mind, repetition and reproduction are equally indispensable. There are many methods: (1) The theme action runs through. Such as Lotus Dance and Drunk Drum Baby; (2) Theme actions appear in different plots, paragraphs and different rhythms. Similar to peacock dance and red silk dance; (3) The main dance groups (segments) appear repeatedly. Such as: "Ordos", "Harvest Song" and so on; (4) The beginning and the end are the reappearance of the same dance treatment or "artistic conception". Such as: Shan Ye's ditty, Zhu Lin's song, etc. Fifth, pay attention to the accumulation of life materials and dance materials mentioned above; Accumulate all kinds of artistic knowledge; Learning and inheriting traditional folk dances; Learning and drawing lessons from the four aspects of the world's national dance culture is an indispensable way and method to enrich our children dance movements, but from the perspective of the development of dance art, they are only "streams" rather than "sources", and it is more important to make new creations on this basis. That is to say, in dance creation, new dance movements are mainly created according to the needs of life and characters' feelings and thoughts reflected. But this new creation is not a departure from the past tradition of creating from scratch, but an innovation, development and creation based on accumulation, inheritance and reference. Because of this, creating new dance movements is the basic skill of children's dance creators. I think it is not difficult to create a children's dance program as long as I go deep into my life and study extensively for a long time and accumulate certain children's dance movements in my brain.