The dance work "Fan Dance" won the National Dance Gold Award in the 2nd CCTV TV Dance Competition in 2002. It is a dance masterpiece, and the TV dance works based on it make the dance even better.
Although "Fan Dance" is only 5 minutes long and small, it accurately captures the spirit of Chinese classical culture, integrates Chinese classical dance, painting and music, and uses modern The second creation using television art methods creates a dilute, elegant and lofty artistic conception.
In the choice of the dance environment for this work, the choreographer used Chinese ink paintings with the most dilute and elegant characteristics (the paintings of "Fan Dance"), or landscapes, or bamboo, lotus, chrysanthemum, and plum blossoms. Either the foreground or the background, or shooting with real-life props, or using special effects image processing, a dance scene is arranged that dilutes the artistic conception and is ready to come out. This is the depiction and expression of the overall artistic conception through the language of painting through the real scene. In terms of the use of music, the director used folk music played on the guzheng. As the environment unfolds, the music with unique Chinese traditional characteristics may be low, high, fast, slow, light and slow, or fast and continuous. This is the characterization and expression of the overall artistic conception in musical language.
Fan dance is the main carrier and expresser of artistic conception. Whether it is from the movement of the fan dance itself or the selection of props, the fan dance in "Fan Dance Pictures" has the aesthetic characteristics of traditional dance. Through the fan dance performance of dancer Wang Yabin, we not only appreciate the external movements of "twisting, tilting, rounding, and bending" of traditional Chinese dance, but also appreciate the inner meaning embodied in the strong, upright, implicit and flexible postures of traditional Chinese dance. Spirit: "Let the spirit lead the form, and the form convey the spirit."
The use of television artistic language in dance strengthens and highlights the dilute, elegant, and lofty artistic conception. For example, in the opening credits of this art film, the camera slowly pans from right to left, absorbing the aesthetic idea of ??"right first, then left" in traditional long-axis painting. The speed and rhythm of the camera movement are relatively slow, which matches the speed and rhythm of the dance movements very well. The pursuit of vividness in the calmness of the composition of the picture is exactly the traditional aesthetic ideal of "seeking movement in silence" and "moving in silence".
In fact, in this art film, there are not only these two aesthetic carriers, but we can enjoy at least four aesthetic carriers: one is the body language of dance, the other is the language of TV sound and painting, and the other is the language of sound and painting. It is the language of painting, subdivided into the language of television sound and picture and the language of music. The brilliance of this art film lies in its clever integration of four language forms to construct a three-dimensional and complete harmonious aesthetic object with unified content and form.