Gannan Tea-picking Dance Three Performance Skills And Dancer Character Training

In the art of stage performances, the touchstone of the maturity of performers lies in whether the characteristics of different roles can be displayed fully and totally before audiences. It is also true of dancing art, one kind of stage performances. However, compared with other stage arts, dancing, carried out by physical performances, shows its disadvantage apparently in displaying characteristics of roles, which is unlikely to present psychological subtleties straightly before audiences like drama or singing. Therefore, with such a disadvantage, what is always in quest for is training in characterization of dancers while the key to improving dancers'comprehensive abilities of performing is to seek a suitable training in characterization for dancing performance.However, all sorts of Chinese folk dances express entirely different characteristics due to geographical , cultural and humanistic differences. Possessing typical characteristics because of its particular region and culture, Gannan tea-picking dance from South Jiangxi Province, in which three major performance skills based on dwarf step , single-sleeve and fan-like flower fully represent personalities of ugly characters, is unique among other Chinese folk dances. This thesis focuses on how the dances with typical characteristics are effectively applied to training in characterization for dancers...