The Constitution And Development Of The Training System Of Contemporary Chinese Classical Dance

Looking into the special history of Chinese dance and the relative complexity of cultural development (the traditional classical dance was gradually integrated into Chinese opera and lost independent character), we will find that the "Chinese classical dance" today is actually a revival and reconstitution of Chinese traditional classical dance, which started at the 1950s. Therefore, we place the word "contemporary" before "Chinese classical dance".The constitution of it is basis on three aspects: "inheriting the prime of traditional culture such as opera and martial art;abstracting the aesthetic feature of oriental verve;learning the systematism experiences of western dance for reference" (see page 1). This definition indicates the essential character of "contemporary Chinese classical dance", as well as its multi-level concept and motive development, which is the theory presupposition of this dissertation.The revival and reconstitution of contemporary Chinese classical dance was to meet the needs of Chinese traditional dance training program in the early time of art development of P.R.C and it was a gradual process pursuing a training system. After the hard work of several generations over half century, it became a training system with the main courses of technique, movement style, pedagogy and repertory. Every course is interacting with each other. It has already made some achievements and trained some highly-qualified dance artists. Many researchers studied in this field from different angels of view during the process. There was argument as well as unique opinion, which provided an important base for the study today. However, comparing with the rich achievement in the studio, the theory study is still relatively behind. Especially there is a lack of systematic study on the historic development, different representative artists and styles, as well as the experiences. This dissertation is going to be the pioneer studying on this.Following are the main points of the study of this dissertation.1. Firstly following supervisor's view of combining the historic clues of events and dance artists together to do a history study and comparing study on the founding process of contemporary Chinese classical dance. Emphasizing both documents collecting and positive interview with representative artists who had great influence at different stages. With an objective evaluation, outlining the process of contemporary Chinese classical dance from a simple but important training class at the very beginning to the elementary training system today and trying to get experiences and find basic rules.2. Secondly using the method of elements analysis, choreme, choreme sequence from the dance ecology, to analyze the shape feature, motive rule and aesthetic character of the "element" and "main and sub-syllabus" established in Chinese classical dance system, so that we can clarify the oriental culture, strengthen the Chinese style of it.3. Thirdly making a perspective for this new training system that is still in the process of researching and growing, including different issues of present problems and future development.