The Studies Of Modern Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Performs

As a very technical comprehensive and large-scaled artistic sports performance,the Olympic Games opening ceremony performance is one of the specific forms of Olympic Games opening ceremony procedure.The successful opening ceremony performance embodies the Olympics spirits with its unique mode of manifestation and transmission.Meanwhile,it also demonstrates the various achievement of the host country and the host city,such as culture,sports,art,science and technology,politics, the economy,the management strength,etc.To inspect the opening ceremony Performance comprehensively,systematically and from the historical depth,is helpful in unearthing something that belongs to the core of human civilization.Taking the methods of documents research,expert interview,video recording analysis,case study,history study and so on,taking all previous modern Olympic Games opening ceremony performance as the research object,this paper draws the main conclusion as follows:1.In the early time,large-scaled group gymnastics is the principal part of the modern Olympic Games opening ceremony performance.But now, it has developed into a technical,comprehesive,large-scaled sport artistic performance which involves many other artistic performance forms,employs many kinds of technological means such as light,sound, laser beam,voice control and so on and integrates music,dance into body movement.2.In the history of the development of the opening ceremony performs, there were five continual but unique stages:embryonic stage,early stage, mature stage,the variation stage and the multiplex stage.3.The opening ceremony performance has seven important values and functions as esthetic,arousing positive value emotion,promoting Olympic education,showing cultural history,imitating and the rendering, expressing and utilitarian.4.Like other performing arts,the opening ceremony performance has its own special constitution.It displays in aspects as subject,theme, emotion,structure and performing language,etc.The subject has the characteristics of clearness,richness and depth.The theme has the symbolic structure,the esthetic quality as well as the special compatibility and esthetic.The structure is composed of four parts: opening,development,climax and ending.Up to today,it has the following four types:Eulogy type,time sequential type,sector type,theatrical drama type.The performing language at the opening ceremony has its distinctive quality,mainly including the formation design,the clothing, the prop,stage art and the light etc.5.The opening ceremony performance has its own esthetic foundation, level and characteristic.Based on the biological and social nature of the esthetic body,through visual physiological instinctive reaction, visual psychological comprehensive response,the socializied extension of form effect,the opening ceremony performance produces special esthetic effect.Its esthetic purport is embodied in the facts that the esthetic substitutes for religion,the artistic performance reflects loftiness,education resides in entertainment,the same object has multiple significances,simpleness tends towards luxury,the science and technology interprets protagonist,performance becomes a new favorite, sacredness remains the criterion.6.There are seven essential factors that influence the opening ceremony performance:Olympic games,art trend,culture,politics, economy,media and science and technology.7.The opening ceremony performance is developing.Meanwhile,it faces many problems to be discussed and solved:the differences and relations between Olympic Games opening ceremony performance and large-scaled dance party,the blending of group gymnastics and theatrical performance in the Olympic Games opening ceremony performance,the audience involved in the opening ceremony performance,the "taking over power" and "maintaining power" between performance and ritual in the opening ceremony performance,the modern development of the opening ceremony performance and so on.It would be beneficial to the promotion of the development of the opening ceremony performance to make clear these questions.