Research On Body Ethics In Dance

The body in dance contains many ethical elements such as life,emotion,beauty,and goodness,involves the body’s aesthetic,action,and values,forming a natural and close relationship with body ethics.The ethics of body in dance represents the ethical genes carried,the ethical contents created,and the ethical transmission implemented by the dancing body,constituting an ethical statement that expresses “moral action” in the form of “body shape”.In fact,the occurrence of dance is not limited to the professional body but should be a physical ability inherent in the universal body.The body in dance is one of the few primitive and sensual physical forms that radiates through a small number of dancers to form a unique spiritual territory compared to other physical genera.Influenced by modernity,the current dance body is facing the double pressure from profit and morality,gradually departing from the original intention and mission of dance art,and on the verge of overstepping the ethical boundary,forming the phenomenon of “loss of morality”.To reverse the above situation,we need to start from “mending virtue” by first having sufficient knowledge of the ethics of the body in dance,and then building a corresponding theoretical system and practical path.How to reflect on the body in dance in order to realize the poetic inhabitation of the subject “human” in the object “body” is an urgent artistic and philosophical problem to be solved.The boundary of the discussion of body ethics in dance is between“elegance” and “vulgarity”.The generative logic of body ethics in traditional dance and the context of the occurrence of body ethics in modern dance show the occurrence of body ethical connotations in dance.From body existence to body perception,to body expression,the art of dance with the body as an ethical carrier is gradually formed.The dance body first undergoes the ethical connections of “body reproduction” “body metaphor” “inter-corporeality” and “mind-body relationship” to produce body aesthetics of “physical beauty” “conceptual beauty” “interactive beauty” and “state beauty”.Then,through the ethical transformation of“humanized nature” “humanized virtue” “humanized emotion” and“humanized perfection”,the final path of dance body ethics is a complete transformation.With the development of modernity,people’s perception of the body has gone through a changing process from “experience” to“transcendence”,from “representation” to “concept”,from “finite” to“infinite”,and from “non-critical” to “critical”.However,the evolution of history is a dynamic process of people’s pursuit of strength and stability,and the advantages it generates are self-evident,the ethical challenges posed are equally inevitable.Due to instrumental rationality,the logic of capital and the status of the physical body,the issue of the ethical boundaries of the body has been challenged,forming the premise of the alienation of the dance body,specifically,the dance body’s being“consumed” “gazed at” “cured” “disciplined” and “subordinated”.This is rooted in dance body’s value “convergence”,aesthetic “kitsch”,creative“mechanization”,cognitive “idealization” and concept “objectification”.This leads to the anti-ethics of the dance body,which eventually spreads from the alienation of the body to the alienation of human beings,from ugliness as beauty to the marriage of ugly and evil,and from the imbalance of body and mind to the disorder of society.Therefore,the body ethics in dance should not leave the two attributes of “beauty” and “goodness” and take “beauty and goodness are integrated” as the principle of construction,from righteousness and mutual benefit,physical and moral balance,skill and art intertwined,and breaking and standing promote each other,constitutes a practical path based on the promotion of elegant culture in society,the improvement of citizens’ aesthetic ability,the cultivation of dancers’ professional ethics and the clever use of stage technology.The study of body ethics in dance,first,promotes the connection between the level of dance techniques and the level of “metaphysical”theoretical,breaks the situation of dance art which is to a certain extent“spinning in place”,opens a broad research horizon for dance theories,provides rich dance materials for art theories,and provides fresh blood for art philosophy theory from dance discipline;secondly,it proposes a reasonable explanation for the phenomenon of body alienation and its ethical deficiency in dance;again,based on the “goodness” in ethics and the “beauty” in aesthetics,the theoretical system of “beauty and goodness are integrated” is constructed to promote the harmony of dance art with people,nature,and society;finally,dance is used as an entry point to explore the body,providing a typical analysis of the prevailing body ethics crisis,aiming to resist the negative impact of the rapid development of modernity on human beings and their bodies,cultivate a body concept that unifies body and mind,form and content,self-discipline and otherdiscipline,and promote modern people to live poetically and happily in the realm of “unity of mind and body”.