A Study On The Evolution Of Yang Liping’s Dance Creation

In the 1980s,Yang Liping,a Chinese dance artist,flew from the peacock princess "Nanmu Nona" to the "Spirit of the Bird",standing out with her solo dance "Spirit of the Bird",forging a model work of Chinese folk dance and forming her own unique dance vocabulary and style.After that,Yang Liping turned her vision to her hometown Yunnan,and put together a large collection of original ecological songs and dances "Yunnan Reflections",which spread the national culture and formed a certain brand effect at the same time;after that,"Peacock" and "Ambush from Ten Sides" were collected widely,realizing the fusion of Chinese traditional culture and international expression.Yang Liping has become a phenomenal dancer in the field of Chinese folk dance,and even in the Chinese dance industry,and her research has received extensive attention from scholars.Throughout the studies on Yang Liping,most of them focus on the analysis of her individual works or series of works,but this thesis puts Yang Liping’s dance art of more than 40 years in practice in a dynamic environment,takes Yang Liping’s dance creation as the research object,adopts literature analysis method,interview method,work analysis method,cause and effect analysis method and induction and deduction method,etc.,and takes "transmutation " In the first chapter,the background of Yang Liping’s growth and early artistic accumulation are sorted out;in the second chapter,the course of Yang Liping’s dance creation transmutation is analyzed;in the third chapter,the reasons behind the transmutation are explored;and in the fourth chapter,the significance of Yang Liping’s dance creation transmutation is summarized.After researching,the author believes that: from "seeking and creating" in the early stage,to "seeking and keeping the roots" in the middle stage,to "sublimation and integration" in the contemporary period,the transmutation of Yang Liping’s dance creation Yang Liping’s dance creation was formed under the joint catalyst of the special culture of the time,personal emotion and unchanging artistic pursuit.On the one hand,her creative transmutation realized an artist’s gradual grasp of the "truth,goodness and beauty" of art and the extension of the breadth and depth of her own artistic creation,on the other hand,it also provided a diversified direction for the pursuit of the value of Chinese folk dance creation,revealed that the creation of Chinese folk dance should put cultural attributes in its place,and promoted the innovative development of Chinese folk dance.On the other hand,it also provides a pluralistic direction for the pursuit of the value of Chinese folk dance creation,reveals that the creation of Chinese folk dance should put the cultural attributes in its originality,and promotes the thinking that the innovative development of Chinese folk dance should grasp the scale.Through this study,the author hopes to improve the research perspective on Yang Liping’s dance art and enrich the ideas of studying the creation and development of Chinese folk dance,in order to provide thoughts and references for relevant dance creators and theoretical researchers.