| The dance drama “Start”,set at the time of remotely ancient China,with the theme of Fuxiculture,the dance play doesn’only tell a touching love story between Fuxi,the head of ThreeSovereigns and Nuwa,the Goddess of the Chinese Nation,but also show a tragic history ofthem sacrificing to spread all-round benefits to the common people.Their spirit of continuouspersuing and advocation of big love is thus demonstrated in the play.From the angle ofancient people struggling against nature,the play reproduced all kinds of life scenes on thestage by various artistic expressions,such as the festival scene,net fishing by Fuxi,keppingrecord by tying knots, setting up six departments,creating mankind and repairing the wall ofheaven by Nuwa.Began with the scene of mysterious universe,based on the expressionmethods of original and simple dance language and beautiful theme music,the dance dramavividly portrayed the scences of life in ancient time.The play showed a spectacular ancientscroll with a touching story,a tortuous plot and a combination of dance,music andhi-tecdance stage design.Being one of the components of Tianshui Fuxi Culture and Tourim Festival,the danceof “Start”tightly hold Fuxi culture and the orgin of Chinese Nationality to putmaterial,spiritual and cultural connotation that Fuxi invented and the philosophy of “theharmony between man and nature”in close integration.In the description of the tragic lifeprocess of Fuxi and Nuwa,the drama showed rich cultural implication,prodfoundphycological thinking and philosophy of value.The drama put traditional virtue of theChinese nation in it,that is the spirit of arduous stuggle,the dream of chasing the light ofwisdom and the pursuit of progress and the essence of development with Eight Diagrams inearly philosophies.By putting ancient culture and philosophical thinking in the drama,thedance drama doesn’t only give people the visual aesthetic enjoyment, but also carry forwardthe traditional culture and value of Chinese Nationality. The drama has been widely praisedin Tianshui and other places.In addition to enjoy themselves,the audidence can alsoexperienced the spiritual shock.Meanwhile,by reviewing the deficiencies existing in the drama and analyzing theproblems exposed in the play,the thesis try to discuss how to develop Fuxi culturereasonbly,reach the potential of social and cultural value,realize the mordern transformationof social and culture value,realize the mordern transformation of the drama and activate its everlasting charm in mordern life. |
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