I. Dance and music
The close relationship between dance and music is fundamentally that dance can not be separated from music, and dance is always displayed with the accompaniment of music. Dance and music exist. Without music, there is no dance. The original dance is accompanied by beats or vocals. "Music Records and Music Images" said: "Poetry, expressing its ambition, singing, singing its voice and dancing its face are all based on the heart, and the latter will follow." Mao's Preface to Poetry in the Han Dynasty also said this truth: "It depends on the heart, and words are like poems; Emotion moves in the middle and is formed in words, which is insufficient, so it laments; Lack of lamentation, so singing; Lack of singing and dancing are not the same thing. " There is even a saying in the dance world: "Music is the soul of dance, and dance is the echo of music." Zahanov, a famous choreographer and dance theorist in the former Soviet Union, also said: "Music-this is the soul of dance. Music contains and determines the structure, characteristics and temperament of dance. "
Wu Xiaobang, a dancer from China, has proved this in theory and practice. He believes: "Any dance must be expressed by its artistic image through music, so that its' meaning' can be fully expressed." He also publicly claimed that he "got the image of dance" from March of the Volunteers, and he also pointed out that "this is a kind of unaccompanied dance. Although there is no sound, he also has a movement from silence to rhythm, which will make people feel that silence is better than sound. " Although some dancers strive to create works without music accompaniment in order to emphasize the independence of dance art, we still use walking kicks instead of music accompaniment, and use foot bells and hand bells to make rhythmic sounds with body movements. Broadly speaking, this rhythmic sound is the basic element of music. The dance Silent Song directed by China dancer Wang et al. shows Zhang Zhixin's fierce struggle in prison. It is a dance work without music accompaniment, but it is equipped with sound effects such as wind, underwater sound, shackles and flogging. In fact, this sound itself belongs to music in a broad sense, because it has rhythm, rhythm, pitch and timbre. In a word, dance and music cannot be separated.
Second, the combination of dance and music.
First of all, the similarity between dance and music is rhythm, which is the natural basis of their combination. Both dance and music have a sense of rhythm, and dance needs music to strengthen the sense of rhythm. The fundamental reason why primitive dance was combined with music from the beginning lies in rhythm. In a deeper sense, people's rhythmic movement naturally needs music, so all kinds of rhythmic collective labor in past dynasties have labor songs. As a free and rhythmic expression of emotional impulse, dance naturally needs the cooperation of music. Of course, what can be combined with dance is not any music, but music with distinct rhythm. Music was originally combined with other arts, such as drama, film and poetry. But dancing is the easiest and must be combined because they have the same rhythm.
Secondly, the similarity between dance and music is lyricism. Both dance and music directly express feelings, and the expression of music is abstract, which will not overlap, contradict or interfere with the specific expression of dance, but can be seamlessly combined with dance.
Thirdly, dance and music are displayed in the process of time. So that they can be synchronized and combined.
Third, the role of music in dance
(1) Cooperate with and help dance to express emotion, embody personality and set off the atmosphere.
Dance needs the stimulation and reinforcement of music. Without music, it is difficult for dance to fully express its feelings. Music has the characteristics of direct infiltration into people's hearts, and the appreciators often experience the feelings expressed in music as their own inner feelings. Dancers certainly have a deeper feeling and understanding of music as part of their works. This kind of feeling and understanding further stimulates the inner feelings, which are expressed through external body movements. Ulanova, an outstanding dancer, said in a dancer's self-report that when she played Maria in the fountain of saraj, Bakhti, her "starting point" was to understand music. She also said that good music is "indicating the expression and meaning of dance movements" for herself. Music can strengthen the emotional color of dance, help to understand the content of dance, and make dance more vivid and attractive. Music can directly touch the feelings of the audience, which is equivalent to adding an emotional bond between the dance and the audience, making the audience closer to the dance.
Help organize dance movements
Dance creation should be carried out in contrast with music. Because dance and music have the same rhythm, rhythm and emotional content, and they are displayed at the same time, they must be highly coordinated. Dance works are not designed with music after action, but with music before action design. There are two ways to use dance music, one is to use ready-made music, and the other is to create music according to the theme and plot of the established dance. "Choreography with music" is a common practice in dance. Zahanov said: "Composers create ballet music, …, while choreographers are excited by music and create dance works-ballet based on music." "Of course, dancing is not just obeying music. First of all, dance should choose music, because not all music is suitable for dance. Secondly, if you create music for the specific dance works in your mind, you must obey the requirements put forward by the choreographer. In addition, the choreographer can also request to modify the music during the choreography.