The Impact Of Cunningham's Dancing Theory On Mutualism,A Dancesport Work

Dancing originates from movements in daily life.It encompasses human emotion,thoughts,images,etc.Different dancing forms convey these emotions,thoughts and images via body language.The form of dancing equals to the content of dancing.In the creation of dancesport works,the designer must derive the movements from the ontology language of dancesport,so it is based on dancing and develops dancing.Dancesport is competitive,so the traditional skills of competitive race cannot display the plot of the dance and the choice of themes is limited,for example,dance scripts with strong narration are not ideal for dancesport.Therefore,the producer director gets enlightened by the dancing theory of Merce Kunningham,the master of modern dancing in the US,and referred to his "pure dance" theory-to move for the sake of move and to dance for the sake of dance.Moreover,the producer director applied Merce Cunningham's "choreography by chance" to the choreography of dancesport works,thus integrating the dance with modern dance,and used ballroom dance and Latin dance as components.After a lot of thinking over Cunningham's dancing theory,the producer director of Mutualism uses "choreography by chance" to arrange and design the steps and movements in dance,adopts dancesport movements and uses them as the major material of the dancing language,and,by dividing,processing and integrating modern dance,the producer director transforms the dancesport movements into different creation languages.The major form of expression of the work is emotion expression.By taking advantage of the characteristics of the male and female double dancing in the dancesport,the work expresses the emotional relationship between men and women in modern society.It does not stress the plot of the dance,but liberates the body from the content,attaches importance to body movements and the ontology language,and pays attention to the emotional change and appeal of human being.The major impacts of Cunningham's dancing theory on Mutualism are: the abstract expression of "pure dance" theory and the creation method of "choreography by chance".Cunningham's dancing theory provokes thinking over the creation of Mutualism-to use "choreography by chance",to discard the fixed movements of dancesport,to explore the ontology language of dancesport movements and to decode the emotional relationship between modern men and women via demonstrating relationship between the male and female dancers.The author wishes that the theory and practice of the graduation work Mutualism can bring new insights and creation concepts for dancesport,so that it can transform from a competitive sport to an artistic sport,and demonstrate the art of dance.