What are the ten key points in learning modern dance?
Modern dance is a kind of dance school opposite to classical ballet, which rose in the West in the early 20th century. His main aesthetic view is against the formalism tendency of classical ballet, which is conservative, divorced from real life and simply pursuing skills.
It advocates to get rid of the bondage of the rigid action program of classical ballet, to express people's real feelings freely with the dance action conforming to the law of natural movement, and emphasizes that the dance art should reflect the modern social life.
(1) The view of life of modern dance is tolerant, optimistic and comfortable; its artistic view is to seek common ground while reserving differences, "Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing his magic power". "If you don't like other people's works, make up one that you like," said the third generation of American modern dance, moss Cunningham
(2) The concept of quantity is the first in modern dance. Graeme's "great master" title should be said to be built by 180 unmatched dance dramas and dances. Her classmate once pointed out: "do you want to make an excellent dance? Well, first make up 100 bad ones!"
(3) In modern dance, the concept of beauty is not the only pursuit; in modern aesthetics, beauty is not the supreme concept. Therefore, beauty or not, should not be the only yardstick to measure the level of modern dance works; when gramm was just out of the woods, her sharp, angular and sensitive twitching movements towards the coming new era were once reviled as "either a sudden seizure of epilepsy, or imminent childbirth" by the press at that time. But decades later, when the whole world is using her spasmodic expression, her "contraction release" action principle is regarded as the clarion call of the new era and the representative of the new aesthetics.
(4) The concept of new and old is not absolutely right and wrong in modern dance. Although the new is not always better than the old, the new is always more interesting and arouses people's attention.
(5) For modern dance works, we should try our best to avoid the judgment of right and wrong, especially when looking at the post-modern dance far away from the traditional concept. Dance is aesthetics, not ethics, which is far away from economic basis and ideology.
(6) For modern dance works, especially for those new works with the purpose of experiment, including students' exercises, it is better not to judge their value, but to try to tap their creative potential and understand their creative motivation.
(7) In the final analysis, all dance creation is to explore the philosophical and aesthetic proposition of "what is dance?" consciously or unconsciously.
(8) The serious problem of danceability in classical dance is totally untenable in modern dance, because the concept of modern dance is so broad, because nature is dancing in the eyes of modern dancers, because every behavior and every action of human is dancing. Paul Taylor, the third generation of American modern dance, said: "what we lack is not the action, but the eyes to find the action that can serve our own purpose."
(9) Ideology and philosophy have always been one of the important characteristics of modern dancers. It is no longer the kind of artists and craftsmen who only imitate but don't want to create.
(10) It is necessary to make clear that the purpose of modern dance is bold experiment and serious exploration, rather than cheap flattery or technology show off.
