1 China dance art development and dance aesthetics
As a performing art, dance has a long history. Judging from the development of dance in China, no matter how the history develops, dance has always been inherited and developed as a cultural phenomenon. With the progress of society, its content is constantly enriched and enriched. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had been separated from traditional Chinese opera as an independent art form, and gradually became a humanistic art that could reflect the spiritual world and real life by relying on the body. Most contemporary dances in China are professional dance works. With the advancement of dance diversification, the art of dance has ushered in a brand-new development opportunity, which has made great progress not only in terms of appreciation, but also in terms of professionalism. There are also professional dance training schools. In the long historical evolution, dance art has not only become more and more colorful, but also promoted the process of cultural prosperity. As the main body of dance art, human beings are not only manifested in the form of dance art, but also in rhythmic gymnastics, martial arts competition and so on, and create the aesthetic feeling of dance through various forms. As the key to the whole stage performance, the transformation of human movements will bring different feelings to human beings as long as it is endowed with image characteristics and social functions. Usually acrobatics requires performers to have super will and skilled skills, and then show artistic beauty through difficult movements. Dance is not only a pile of movements, but also carries the corresponding cultural spirit and touching emotions, which gives a certain aesthetic evaluation in the process of all the good and bad things in the world, and it is also a shocking aspect. In dance performance, it follows certain rules, and rhythm, as a key part of dance art, will appear smoother and more natural under the double touch-up of modeling and rhythm. In addition, every change of dance art will bring different feelings to the audience under the guidance of overall feeling according to inevitability and connectivity. In this process, dance language makes the dance image more vivid, thus forming a unique aesthetic feeling. Generally speaking, dance aesthetics and dance itself complement each other, and they are more precise under the influence of artistry, lyricism and originality, and then they are integrated into dance. Using aesthetic features to discover the essence of dance is a way to test the art form.
2 Aesthetic features of dance art
(1) Dance originates from life and is higher than life. Dance is an art that cannot be divorced from the reality of life, and social life has always been an objective entity. Social diversity and human living conditions provide rich materials for it, and provide diverse forms of expression for dance art. In dance operation, it shows the beauty, goodness and truth in life according to certain social phenomena. After these phenomena are unified and summarized, excellent dance works are formed, which inspire, infect and inspire people with the unique charm of dance art. No matter what form of dance, it has the essence of being from life and higher than life. For example, Laundry Dance is a typical dance, which shows the spirit of brotherhood and unity between the army and the people through the traditional songs and dances of the Tibetan people. At the same time, it also links folk songs with tap dancing, which is formed by beautifying, refining and processing life stories. Its main plot is: a group of Tibetan girls who went to the river to carry water met PLA soldiers who wanted to wash clothes by the river; So this group of girls tricked the soldiers into washing clothes and washed them cleanly. When these soldiers came back, they found this phenomenon and used their quick wits to help Tibetan girls carry water. The whole dance has been running forward with buckets, and the lively and vivid scene of Tibetan girls chasing after them with their favorite clothes ends. This laundry dance not only represents the daily life of residents, but also has many touching and far-reaching implications. Because of its novel materials, simple structure and far-reaching ideas, it has been loved by the general public since its creation. This aesthetic feature, which comes from life over life, endows the work with independent and feasible space, which shows a unique side in both theme and theme. It requires the author to focus on the innovation of artistic conception closely, instead of blindly showing the dance image to the audience. Because innovation has always been a condition for the eternal existence of works of art, in the process of being affirmed and appreciated, we can enjoy beauty. From the essence of dance, aesthetic feeling mainly exists in independent creation; The so-called new works should be not only expected, but also reasonable. To a great extent, human beings will have a sense of beauty for innovative materials. As the source of the whole artistic aesthetic feeling, the theme of the work must be true and moving, and the work should be further interpreted in artistic innovation. For example, Lotus Dance, as a work widely loved by dancers, has achieved such great success mainly because it has brought aesthetic feeling and new ideas to the audience. In the early stage of creation, the dancers were inspired by the "Lotus Lantern", which further created and processed the artistic image, and great changes have taken place in both the essence and the image, which made the audience sing in appreciation.
(2) combine narrative and lyric perfectly. The ancient prose "Preface to Mao Poetry" once said, "Emotions move in the middle, actions in words, words are insufficient, and ancient sighs, so swimming songs are insufficient, feet dance, and hands dance." This also shows that when people are excited, they can't help dancing. The characteristics of expressing emotions in dance are the integration of gods and deeds, showing feelings with body movements and giving people an intuitive image. It can be seen that the best way to express emotions is still dance. Although it has no lines and polite language narration in film and television works, it often uses corresponding scenes and music to describe events in real life. In the art form of dance, analogy and symbolism are often used to show the story and express emotions through beautiful and silent body language. In the appreciation of dance art, the audience can fully display their imagination, master the story and experience the feelings contained in the dance through their understanding of the dancers' dance melody and dance posture. For example, Swan Lake, the representative work of ballet, in this work, at first, the prince met the swan as a classical ballet for two, and through the facial expressions and body movements of the performers, it showed the psychological transformation of Ogetta from vigilance and fear to trust and reassurance, and finally the transformation process of budding love. In this dance, there are no language descriptions and lines, but the protagonist's emotions are vividly described.
(3) Aesthetic features of virtual symbols. Dance, as a generalization of life phenomena, is not an intuitive chronicle, but a virtual symbol as an artistic expression to further show aesthetic characteristics. In the process of dance performance, dancers' gestures and body movements are used instead of language, thus further reflecting thoughts and feelings and showing the story. Therefore, if you don't understand the aesthetic characteristics, people who have just come into contact with dance will show the feeling of "not understanding". In the dance drama, through dancing and emotional movements, dancing is displayed in a handful of ways. For example, The Battle Drum of Jinshan, starring dancer Wang Xia, is an emotional work on the whole, but some parts are chronicle links. When the performer stood on the drum to explore the military situation and was unfortunately shot by an arrow, the performer held his chest tightly with his hand, made a rear axle movement on the drum surface, and gradually formed an arch, and finally rolled off the drum. In this dance design, lyric is the main genre, and in the process of visual chronicle, the scene of injury and pain is displayed, and then the details are enlarged to show the characters, so as to achieve the effect of combining subjective chronicle and virtual symbol.
(4) Aesthetic characteristics of skill and synthesis. As the core factor of the transformation of dance art, the content of dance interpretation must be based on myths and legends and daily life, and its theme psychology is to complete difficult skills. Usually, multi-turn rotation and jumping are difficult movements, which must be carried out according to the softness of dance movements while embodying the artistry. Dance is not only a cultural form and an art, but also represents the characteristics of a nation and a country, so it has a broad deductive scope and creative area. As a diversified and multi-level process, dance aesthetics is difficult to complete only by aesthetic characteristics, so it must be combined with various forms to show artistic beauty.
3 Conclusion
As a distinct form of expression, dance art has unique aesthetic characteristics. In real life and study, we must improve artistic accomplishment and dance art from all aspects according to aesthetic characteristics.