Dance design is also called stage art design.

Dance beauty design has both the nature of time art and space art, and it is a four-dimensional space-time interlaced art with strong technology and strong dependence on material conditions. Belonging to the second creation in artistic creation, it is subordinate (actor performance). In performance, it has many functions: shaping characters through character modeling and scenery modeling.

Create and organize drama action space. Show the environment and place where the action took place. Create the mood and atmosphere needed for the plot. It helps the actors to reveal the inner world of the characters and the ideological content expressed in the script through the shaping of images.

With the improvement of various performance technical conditions, the means of artistic modeling are gradually increasing, its artistic function is gradually strengthened, and the value and taste of artistic creation are getting higher and higher, which has become an important organic part of the comprehensive art of drama. In modern drama performance, the design of dance beauty has become an important and even decisive factor in determining and influencing the form of performing arts.

Historical development:

These functions of dance beauty design are the product and result of historical development. The makeup, costumes and personal props directly related to the actors first appear in the performance, and then the scenery is gradually formed. After the performance entered the room, there was a light gradually. For a long time, it mainly played a "practical" function in performances.