A Dance Drama

A dance drama is a large-scale dance work that shows human lives through the evolution of dramatic events. It expresses people’s lives, thoughts and feelings in dance performance with dramatic events and plots.

Compared to other kinds of arts of dance, it is characterised by extensively and in depth over other kinds of art of dance is that it portrays people’s lives in a wider and deeper way in a dramatic form. Dance movements, silent dramatic movements, and dance composition are used comprehensively in the dance drama, including music, stage art and other means of interpretation.

The dance drama is divided into Act and Scene, and each Scene is divided into dance motions. Dance scene also consists of a action dance that expresses the hero’s inner world and the dramatic events directly and a leisure dance that shows the reality of the period and the people’s customs and highlights the hero’s dramatic world.

In the dance drama the hero’s action dance is represented mainly in the form of a group dance, together with solo and pair dances.

The dance drama is divided into many-act play drama, two-act play drama and one-act play drama according to the volume and scale of life it contains. It is also divided into national dance drama created in the form of national dance peculiar to the people of the relevant country and ballet drama created in the form of ballet dances.