Ethnic Folk Dance Semiotics Perspective

Significance of the human world from the action thinking，so the action became an early formof thinking. In the absence of language age, rely on the human body movements, facial expression,posture, voice and other media for expression，these expressive movements,the first simplyself-expression unconscious action group，when the action group after repeated, become a habitualresponse，will change for the group’s activities and continue to be programmed, the unconsciousaction group will self-expression consciously with a logical meaning，significance of this logic isgiven the human action. Folk dance production also originated from action thinking，that gives thedance movements, facial expression, gesture in some significance of communicative activities.Therefore, we say that the dance is expression meaning through the dynamic body language, thisreflects the emotional meaning, reason and aesthetic meanings.Semiotics is the study of symbolic meaning subject，the symbol is divided into language andnon language symbol，significance of the problem (including the significance of the generation,transmission, communication, understanding, acceptance and variation) is the common core ofHumanities and social science, the basic method and semiotic task is to provide researchsignificance，the meaning generation and interpretation. Semiotics research attention is a symbolicsignificance, communication, reception, understanding the process of, how to see through theessence from the appearance, is the study of kernel. Dance is one of the earliest human culturalphenomenon, in a dance with joy in the transfer and dissemination of information can make therecipient feel meaning. Semiotics is a special weapon of cultural studies, the semiotic theory intothe theory and practice of dance，tap dance symbolic form, symbol and the entire dance notationsystem has a reference on theory and application value to study dance.This paper from the perspective of the three part of the system of the national folk dance ofsemiotic phenomena. The semiotic theory is used to describe the origin, find out the relationshipbetween folk dance and semiotic theory, and draws the semiotics and dance art born hisconclusion; Secondly, the national folk dance as the research subject, semiotic theories from somekind of significance for the research of ontology provides an important methodologicalperspective, through specific analysis of symbol expression dance full of folk dance in theconclusion; Finally, the national folk dance is based on human body movements, facial expressions, gestures as the media of art, expression and significance of the metaphor, by passingthe communicative meaning and receiving is its main function, In the cultural semiotics and folkdance, The Miao Maguan County of Yunnan Province as a case of Wenshan dance, thus thesemiotic theory provides an important method for the study of folk dance body enlightenment.Folk dance form in the specific cultural soil and ecological environment, to a particular nation’sway of thinking, represents the life state of a particular nation. From the semiotic theory ofnational folk dance is a brand-new topic, It requires more researchers to join in, this thesis is anattempt, hoping to attract, caused the academic colleagues more thinking collision, researchparadigm and constantly enrich and filling the dance.