How to record dance movements

Hello! Dance is a kind of time-space dynamic plastic arts with human movements as the main means of expression. As soon as the performance is over-the action stops, which means that the dance disappears and no longer exists. In order to preserve dance to meet the needs of dance education, spread and popularize dance culture, many dancers all over the world have been studying and exploring how to better record dance and adopted many different methods. One is to use words or dance terms. For example, in ancient China, the words "Zhao", "Shake", "Send" and "Send" or "Swallow's Wings", "Turtle's Back", "Swallow's Swallow" and "Kick Purple Crown" were used to express a specific dance movement. Due to the lack of intuitive images of words and vocabulary, if you don't go through special learning, you won't know what it refers to, and it will be easily lost after a long time. Another way is to record dances by combining words and figures, such as Dunhuang Dance Score, Deshou Palace Dance Score, Six Dynasties Small Dance Score, Lingxing Small Dance Score, etc. China folk and some ethnic minorities also have eight diagrams dance spectrum, Dongba dance spectrum and tea horse mirror dance spectrum. The other is a recording method called "dance score", which records the movements and orientation changes of dance with lines, symbols or words. For example, there are Benaisch notation, Seton action shorthand and Labanotte method in foreign countries, and there are "fixed dance score", "new dance score" and "action sketch" in contemporary China. These dance scores and methods of recording dance have played a certain role in recording and preserving dance. However, because most of them use various symbols, figures and lines, it is difficult to be familiar with and master them without special study and training for a certain period of time, and recording dances with them is also quite complicated and cumbersome, so it is difficult to spread them widely among the masses. Since 1950s, a popular dance recording method, namely "dance floor recording", has been used in China's dance publications. It records dance works by means of music score, dance action diagram, dance formation moving line diagram, stage scenery, costume design, etc. , with a text description. Because this method is easier to learn than all kinds of dance scores and can be understood without much effort, this method of recording dance works can be popularized among some dance lovers. However, it is also very troublesome to record dance in this way. For example, it is very difficult to learn dance, and only the outline of a dance can be recorded. The style and rhythm of dance can't be recorded at all, and it is certainly not ideal to use.

Since the widespread popularity of TV video, the problem of recording and saving dance has been solved. As long as there is a video of dance, it is no longer particularly difficult to appreciate and learn dance. It is simpler than all kinds of dance music and dance recording methods, and solves the problems of dance style, rhythm and expression.