“Charming Dance Imagination

The word "imagination" comes from the Greek word phantasia,which is a special way of thinking.In the common psychology we are familiar with,imagination is defined as: "the mental process of processing and transforming the stored images in the mind to form a new image." It is a special way of thinking that human beings have to deal with the objective world.It is the core element of all creation and the source of social life and scientific and technological progress.Einstein once said,"Imagination is more important than knowledge,because knowledge is limited,but imagination summarizes the world,promotes progress,and is the source of the evolution of knowledge." In art works,imagination is an important participant.The construction of words and languages,the depiction of dramatic pictures,the outline of painting lines,the presentation of dancing limbs,and so on,all need the reconstruction and stimulation of imagination.Dance art,from the original dance creation-dance performance-dance appreciation,are closely linked with imagination.Imagination is a thinking activity based on individual emotional experience,and emotion is the starting point of dance imagination.Wu Xiaobang believes that the creation process of dance is the process of capturing,summarizing and condensing emotions.When the dance movement is independent of emotion,it is only an external form and loses its fundamental core and soul.In the process of dance creation by a dance artist,the objective existence of people or things collide with them to produce emotions,which are consistent with what the artist wants to express in his heart.Only when the artist has dancability can he tell stories and express feelings through body language.The main body of this paper will focus on the use and presentation of imagination in dance works from the perspective of analysis and research.On the one hand,it is analyzed from the perspective of choreographers and directors in creating dance works: 1.To obtain ideas on the premise of feeling;2.Refining imagination by thinking;3.Imagine for the purpose of conception.On the other hand,it starts from the dancer’s image thinking,that is,dance sense(which can be divided into stage sense,proprioception sense and self-sense).Through the analysis and research with these two aspects as the main entry point,the paper tries to provide reference for the practice of dance creation and find new methods and ideas for how to stimulate imagination and creative thinking.