Study On The Form Of "Russian Tap Dance"in Tasheng City,Xinjing

The Russian nationality is one of the youngest ethnic minorities among the 56 ethnic groups in China.It is also the only ethnic group that has inherited more European civilization and customs and has European cultural origins.Tacheng is the area where most Russian ethnic groups live in Xinjiang.Most of the local Russian ethnic groups are descendants of Chinese and Russian ethnic groups.They integrate the advantages of the two great ethnic groups,showing the unique appearance of the Chinese ethnic group and the tolerance of the Chinese ethnic group.As the most representative traditional dance art form of Russian nationality in Tacheng,tap dance is an important part of Russian people's life and their favorite form of entertainment.It covers the basic characteristics of the folk dance,with forms of art with high improvisation and low routinization.And it consists of unique footwork and subtle body and natural and unrestrained of active dance style,reflecting the ethnic Russians,uninhibited passion of national character and unique aesthetic value,which also enrich the forms and contents of Chinese national folk dance.Although it inherited the basic form and element style of “Russian tap dance”,after it was introduced to Xinjiang,its cultural form has gone through four stages of evolution,that is,the mother culture maintenance stage,the transmission stage,the rupture and decline stage,and the adjustment stage in order to integrate into the local culture.Finally,tap dance leverage its own cultural adjustment ability both to derive the Xinjiang ethnic song and dance art more nutrients,fully integrated into the Chinese traditional culture and become the important part of the forest,and present a "blend in" to "integration" to "melt" cultural characteristics,and absorption-again-to influence the development of the choroid,with its own unique charm to bloom in Xinjiang,developing together with the other nationality song and dance art.This paper takes the Russian nationality in Tacheng city as a case and tap dance as the research object,leverage the field survey as the basic basis for the research,and aims to analyze the “Russian tap dance” from point to all,and analyzes its specific form,characteristics and functions in the unique dance context.The specific research content is mainly divided into the following four parts: the first part is the general situation of Russian nationality in Tacheng,Xinjiang.The geographical location,ecological environment and the general situation of Russian culture,as well as the development status of tap dance in Tacheng are summarized respectively.The second part is the study of “Russian tap dance” form in Tacheng.This part analyzes tap dance in depth from five different aspects,including existing footwork classification,upper limb auxiliary movements,different performance contents,characteristics of musical props and performance costumes.Since most of them are based on improvisation,the author will select the eight most representative steps through field investigation and extract the four main tap dance elements based on the analysis of movement.Finally,based on the above,the specific form,characteristics of footwork,movement style and rhythm of tap dance will be analyzed and described.The third part is the variation and development of Russian tap in Tacheng,analyzing tap from the "native" into the "second hometown",in the context of different variation of what is happening in content and form,trying to find the inherent in the dance performance forms,comparing local two ethnic groups with Russian ethnic to show how ethnic Russians Tacheng tap are melting with multiple ethnic culture.The fourth part is about the function and inheritance status of “Russian tap dance” in Tacheng city,which is based on the intrinsic cultural genes of tap dance existing in the local culture and summarizes its function and survival status from the dance itself.Based above four parts of the research,the conclusion is made to provide certain theoretical support for the improvement of Russian dance art in Tacheng.