Last week, my friend asked me to accompany her to a ballet performance, I didn’t want to go at first, because I was busy that day. But on second thought, I watched “Swan Lake” when I was young, and I have always loved ballet, so my friends and I are looking forward to this performance. I’m not very familiar with the ballet and, in addition to the classroom, the teacher said, will divide the two steps to perform ballet, one is variation performance, is the dancer on one foot, there are two or more single action or composite action in a certain order, direction, combined with changes in speed and magnitude of the continuity of the slide, stretch, kick, jump. Rotation. Beyond that, I know very little.
So I looked up some information on the Internet, and I found that ballet, like hip-hop, can also be divided into several types, such as solo dance, pas de deux dance, triple dance, quadruple dance and group dance. The two dances above are solo dances. In addition, I have found that ballet has had two aesthetic views throughout its history. First, some people believe that ballet is “a geometric pattern of several people dancing together.” This view completely focuses on the formal beauty of ballet, without considering the content or plot of ballet, and simply pursues superb and gorgeous skills. Until the middle of the 18th century, this view dominated ballet writing. It’s kind of like, I think ballet is beautiful, and I don’t see what it’s about. Another view emphasizes that ballet is a “dramatic dance “, which is most intensively represented by Norwell’s theory of” dramatic ballet “. He thinks in a dance works, dance to dramatic content, “the plot and the choreography to maintain unity, have a logical, intelligible stories as a central theme, has nothing to do with the plot of the solo dance and dance pieces have to cancel”, in the ballet “is not only a brilliant dance technology, must through the dramatic performance, moved the audience from the aspects of mood” ~ the two perspectives, I also the second point, because, I think dance, ballet, in particular, is to through the modelling of rhythm, dance, music rhythm, gestures, and gestures to express true feelings, if just the pursuit of beautiful expression skills, then it will let the dancers dancing feel mechanical and boring, it is against the purpose of the dance.
In a word, this inquiry, let me learn a lot about ballet, I benefit a lot.