Traditional Chinese Painting Freehand Brushwork In Traditional Chinese Style In The Application Of Modern Dance Costume Design

Modern dance, the Western dancing art, has been familiar with and favored byChinese audiences. On the Chinese modern dancing stage, affected by the local culture,there has been a lot of dancing repertoires which are different from the Western subjects,and mainly to reflect the spirit of the national culture. In this kind of modern dance,because the body language is modern, the special dancing costumes are required toexpress the Chinese traditional culture’s flavor in them.Being the most representative art in China, the Chinese Painting is the inexhaustiblesource of inspiration for all the arts; meanwhile, the aesthetics of Chinese EnjoyablePainting and modern dance are also shared: the same pursuit for implication expression.If using the Chinese Enjoyable Painting style in the dance costumes’ design, and combiningwith modern dance movements, it will be looked both traditional and modern.Through analyzing the success cases, this article will explore the detail usages forartistic spirit and technique during design process of the Chinese Enjoyable Painting, andthe consequent aesthetic tastes. Furthermore, through summarizing the author’s actualoperations, this article will also give the guidance for this style of design in the future.