The Study of Folk Contradance in China

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10.2991/meici-15.2015.272How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Contradance; Folk; Self-entertainment; Construction

Abstract

ContraDance studied in this dissertation is a form of dance by pairs of dancers, which involves social function and self-entertainment. In the west, ContraDance came from the folk, entered the palace latter, and then developed further in city hall. In China, although folk dance did not go through baptism, development and transformation of the etiquette in feudal court and capitalist urban industrialization like the West. However, it is a cultural phenomenon where Chinese dance occupies an important position in history of dance. When mankind enters the Neolithic age, the form of group marriage based on life reproduction gradually faded and private ownership society combining individual family slowly emerged, after the delicacy and attention of love between men and women entered the social form, the embryonic form of the contradance also surfaced along with the frequent communication among people in private. With the growth of human culture, folk contradance in China is booming in the long history and tells emotions of dancers its unique form.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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