Narrative is indispensable to acting a story. How does ballet tell a story? It is necessary to express the thoughts and feelings of the dance drama with dance language, to create personalized characters to reveal the theme of the dance drama, and to construct the drama structure of the dance drama with the action system composed of contradictions and conflicts.
Dance drama is called the highest form of dance art and the crown of dance, because it includes not only the development of events and the expression of external forms, but also the expression of theme content, the catharsis of internal emotions, the expression of implication, the transformation of psychology, the imagination of artistic conception and the collision of ideas. The narrative category of dance drama is the synthesis of external form and internal emotional implication.
Dance drama is described with emotion. Although the external events directly point to the "dramatic action" of the dance drama, without the emotional support of Ming-feng and Chueh-hui, Ming-feng would have no reason to act. Therefore, emotion-action-event is the logical connection of this dance drama.
In ballet, emotional state is the main driving force of the characters' behavior in ballet, which finally promotes the trend of ballet plot. Therefore, ballet has great advantages in describing the inner psychology and feelings of characters, especially in describing the rich inner world.
Therefore, the external events, narration and internal emotional description of dance drama are closely combined. The two complement each other and are indispensable. The narrative of dance drama is for emotion, and emotion should be completed in the event. Love and things are inseparable, which causes this feeling and supports this feeling. Dance drama is in such a narrative.
That is, to show dancing and drama, that is, to show things and narrate feelings, which is the special charm of dance drama narration.
We can understand the dramatic features of ballet by appreciating Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, which is regarded as a milestone of China ballet.
The drama of "two springs reflecting the moon" is reflected in the duet of "competing with each other and influencing each other, leading to changes in their respective moods and relationships" Contradictions and conflicts are external conflicts between people and society and between people, and they are oppression by external forces.
Most of these conflicts follow the objective logic of events and character growth. External events directly point to the "dramatic action" of the dance drama and ultimately promote the plot development of the drama.
The narrative of ballet is not only an objective representation of the plot, but also a subjective expression of emotion. It can be said that this is the characteristic of ballet, and it is also the unique charm of ballet because of its physical performance.
What is a "dance poem"? A dance work is a "dance poem", which transforms the original grand narrative into a vivid narrative of individual destiny, "poeticizes" the structural process, structural mode and structural form of the dance drama, and romanticizes the realistic theme of the dance drama. Seeing Dance Poetry from Appreciating Li Chengxiang's Four-Act Ballet "Lin Daiyu".
There is no drama conflict in Lin Daiyu, but only Daiyu's subjective psychological feelings construct a dance drama, which is called "prose structure" because of the leap of aesthetic images.
"Dance Poetry" is the "poetry" of dance drama, the continuous simplification of the relationship between the characters in dance drama and the dramatic dilution of dance drama. Changbai Qing is known as the representative of large-scale dance poetry. The poem "Long Bai Qing", which is connected by dancing images, is a poem with symbolic significance, and it is a poem with no "comparison" but "biography".
Dance poetry is the pursuit of "poetry" in dance art, but it also ignores the tension of "drama" and despises the dramatic narrative effect of body language in "dance drama"
Now, "dance poetry" has been compared with dance and has become the theme of large-scale dance creation. Whether as a theoretical proposition or as a practical way, "Dance Poetry" has its unique perspective and irreplaceable advantages, which we can't ignore.