Reflections on the Artistic Construction of Body Language in Anhui Flower-Drum Lantern Dance
Anhui flower-drum lantern dance can show the storyline and characters mainly with dance,supplemented by folk songs,gongs and drums and other musical instruments.It is in the first batch of Chinese Han folk dances selected into the national intangible cultural heritage catalogue.Based on the generation of dance body language and the logic of artistic construction,the body language of Anhui flower-drum lantern dance is decoded from two levels regarding"signifier"and"signified".The body language of flower-drum lantern dance is formed by composing the body language,natural scenery,animal body language and martial arts body language in the daily life of the local people,thus realizing the construction of its"signifier";while,the construction of"signified"can be realized through the metaphorical and stylistic feature of the body language,and finally the vivid and rich body language gets generated in flower-drum lantern dance.
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