Contemporary City Square Dance Research

As a specific form of social dance,the square dance must have thesocial nature that is the fundanmental property of social dance. Itsproduction, the rise and development , the nature and identity, the socialstatus and function must comply with the connotation and extension whichis social dance has covered. In short, the square dance is specific andvisualization social dance. Through field research on city square dancein several places in Yunnan,the author feel that the great charm of theSquare Dance. This paper is combined with a specific example todemonstrate the various factors which effect on the occurs and developmentof the contemporary city square dancing.Acording to researching squaredancing activities connotation and activity places we can divide thesquare dance into : the spontaneously contemporary city square dance bythe masses and The launched contemporary city square dance by someagencies and the contemporary city Square Dance by holiday customs.Andthen,the paper discussed in the production and development, functionalvalue and feature classification respectively. The author also revealsthe problems and current malpractices of the contemporary process ofdevelopment of the city square dance. Moreover the author put forward somesuggestions and views on how to avoid. This article try to deconstructthe social dance through a dance phenomena of the contemporary city squaredance . The purpose is to reveal the true meaning and the law of developmentof the square dance which is a social dance disciplines and to Improvetheory research level of square dancing and to rich the theoreticalframework of social dance.