Research On Danceable Character Of Opera Costumes

The form of Chinese opera costumes and dance elements of performances have a close relationship. Opera singing and chanting, doing, playing are inseparable from the dance movements. Opera and dance have a deep affinity. Yuan opera murals, the block-printed edition "Lotus swing" of Ming dynasty and other image data indicate that danceable character of opera costumes has been gradually highlighted up with the continuous improvement of the level of dance in the opera performancesDanceable character of opera costumes can be of help to a lively dance opera characters to shape the external image; help reveal the most vivid essential characteristics of opera characters, performance figures temperament, character outside of the psychology and emotion; help the actors singing and dancing performances, and thus help to strengthen the expressive dance movements to enhance the dance of opera performances. Formal beauty of Chinese opera costumes dance can be expressed as vibration of points, the line track, loose of surface, embodiment augmentations and hardness with softness of fabric. The use of these points, lines, surface and embodiment help the opera costumes to dance with diversified development. Increasingly fine opera costumes are due to the changes of program, decoration and other elements as a result of external factors. These changes,which are always subject to the overall control of impressionistic aesthetic principle, despite all sorts of changes and development, still maintain aesthetic characteristics of program and danceable. With the development of the times, the reforms of opera have brought Chinese opera costumes with innovations. Fashion innovation should be based on the traditional, with the program thinking as the guide, following the impressionistic aesthetic principle, to keep aesthetic characteristics of danceable, program and decoration of clothing. However, with the impact of foreign culture and the market economy, some reforms of opera costumes haven't been done properly in maintaining aesthetic characteristics. Many designs played down the three aesthetic characteristics in the name of innovations, and weakened the original function of artistic expression of opera costumes. The art of Chinese opera costumes is on an intersection point of unprecedented development of art.