Snow With The Wind Blowing, Dancing With The Spirit High

Chinese Classic Dance is an outstanding part of Chinese Dance in the contemporary era, which has the typical significance and special characteristics. It was entrusted with the specialties of aesthetics by the given historical and cultural background. It expresses the cognition for the universe by the artistic conception, and also, reflects the special understanding for the artistic value in China. This article tries to find out the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese Classic Dance, and to pay attention to the effects on which 'Shenyun' has tried to make in Chinese dancing arts. The main parts of this article is about the ways of looking for the artistic spirit of Chinese Dance from traditional Chinese cultural background . From the view of aesthetics of dance and the life consciousness, the importance of aesthetic creation in dance can be discovered, and the aesthetic interests in Chinese dance as well. The last part of this article is further to discuss that how to display the artistic characteristics of Chinese Classic Dance in the circumstances of globalization. The contradiction and the harmony lie on 'classic' and 'modern' thoughts, which exist on the development of Chinese Classic Dance. In its ways of facing the coexistence of challenges and opportunities, Chinese Classic Dance should stress out the characteristics and the creative points so as to build up the theories of Chinese dancing arts development.