For an excellent dancer, in addition to practicing movements, inner cultivation is even more indispensable for learning dance. Strengthening inner cultivation can not only enrich and enrich the dancer's spiritual world, but also shape the dancer's unique temperament from the inside out. Let me share the spiritual food suitable for dancers to read. These books are not ambitious and utilitarian success books or reference books, but they can deepen your understanding of dance and self to a certain extent, and silently change your spiritual core.
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"Dance of Life: Duncan's Autobiography"
Author: Isadora Duncan
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publisher
Translator: Cai Haiyan / Ling Zhe
Recommended reason: In Duncan's life, what remains unchanged is the upward persistence in the pursuit of the human spirit of . Some people say: " book can always give me strength when I am most desperate."
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), founder of American Modern Dance . She received a good music education since childhood, rejecting rigid and rigid classical ballet, and believed that skills will tarnish the natural beauty of the human body. Only in nature can she find the most beautiful body and discover movements that can express these inner spirits of the body. She found the ideal dance expression method from ancient sculptures and paintings, used her own dance to interpret the musician's works, created a unique dance model, and became a pioneer of modern dance.
Duncan has been experiencing the collision between the God of Dance and the God of Love throughout her life, advocating love and freedom. She has fallen in love with many world-renowned artists and successful people, but all her romances end with the departure of her lover. It may be that love activates art, it may be that art destroys love. She has experienced countless hardships, but every hardship makes her feel like a phoenix reborn and reborn in despair.
For many years, Duncan had planned to write an autobiography and finally completed her writing in the early summer of 1927, a few months before her tragic death. Due to her unexpected death, this work has no chance to be modified, and what is presented to readers now is exactly the same as her manuscript. She not only achieved the dance myth of an era, but also completed the perfect transformation of a woman, leaving the world with the most fascinating female memoir in human history.
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" Pina Bowsh : Dance to fight fear"
Author: Jochen Schmidt
Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
Translator: Lin Qianwei
Recommended reason: Close to a great figure, an era of world dance art.
Pina Bowch is the most famous German modern dance choreographer and founder of the "dance theater" with a far-reaching influence in the European art world. He is known as the "First Lady of German Modern Dance". In the contemporary international dance world, Pina Bowsh's works are world-renowned. Her contribution to modern dance is obvious to all and will never be erased. Even Venus teacher is also her admirer. When talking about Pina, Venus once said: "When she first saw her dance, she was completely shocked... I think she used pain to express her dance, and I would use loneliness to express her dance. The form is not important, but what is important is myself."
Love and fear, longing and loneliness, frustration and horror, childhood and death, memories and forgetting, violence, gender... These themes have become representatives of her works. She examines the shortcomings of modern society and the fears faced by humans with a sharp eye. She dances to fight against fear throughout her life.
The authoritative dance critic and historian of the German dance industry, Johen Schmidt, the only dance critic who trusted by Pina Bowsh, finally completed the book through long-term observation and interview with Pina Bowsh. Through this book, you can learn about Pina Bowsh's experience in dancing, her personality, emotions, life and works, as well as Pina Bowsh's creative philosophy and source of vitality.
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"Don't be afraid that I am different from the world"
Author: Xu Fangyi / Lin Zhiting
Publisher: Tianxia Culture
Recommended reason: When you feel confused and discouraged in your dance career, this book may give you inspiration and strength.
Xu Fangyi is the former chief dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company and is known as the "successor of Martha Graham, the mother of modern American dance." Dance Magazine once listed her as one of the "25 most watched dancers" of that year. She has participated in the Dusedov International Dance Biennium Expo and participated in the American Ville International Dance Festival and the Jacob Pillow Dance Festival twice.
In order to pursue the dream of dancing, Xu Fangyi has always been in her own way and experience, and insisted on walking out of her own path without following the rules. Since childhood, I have been away from the life blueprint that my father has painted for her, and have gone alone to the dancer's holy land, New York, swallowing up all the inequality and ridicule of the real environment, enduring the loneliness that no one has shared with the hometown, happiness and sorrow. All of this is for dancing.
This woman who loves dancing uses her own example in the book "Not afraid that I am different from the world" - dare to dream, practice it seriously, and you will definitely do it too. Through this book, you can better realize that a dancer’s success is not a lucky draw, but comes from a high degree of self-discipline, as well as more serious and continuous efforts than others.
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" Yang Liping : The Dancer of the Soul"
Author: Tencent Master
Publisher: CITIC Publisher
Recommended reason: Through this book, experience the dance life of the soul dancer Yang Liping.
Yang Liping, a poet who writes about life with dance. Under the curtain of Chinese folk dance, she took 40 years of superb, elegant and genius dance steps. Her leading "Peacock Dance" in the 1980s has become a beautiful classic that transcends the era; in 2003, her choreographed and led the large-scale original song and dance " Yunnan Imaging ", vividly interpreting the original culture of ethnic minorities. The book takes you to approach this life dancer who is both spiritual and divine and experience her dancing life in the form of an interview.
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"Are you dancing? 》
Author: [France] Mary Nimier
Translator: Zhu Yan
Recommended reason: beautiful language, profound artistic conception, meditate read read, may be able to harvest the same comfort as an afternoon nap .
In this book, there are four interesting short stories about dance.
"Bani": The love and separation between a female dancer from a wealthy family and a male dancer who lost her parents since childhood.
" skates ": Starting at the skating rink and ending in the practice room.
"Reporter": A conversation between a male dancer and a tricky reporter.
"Swing": My sister became a dancer in order to miss her sister who fell from a swing.
These stories all exudes a typical "French" flavor, about childhood and growing up, about first love, passionate love and farewell. The author of this book, Marie Nimier, is known as one of the outstanding French new generation female writers after Duras and Beauvoir . At the age of 28, she won the 1985 Academy Award for the French Academy of French Literature Award and the French Literary Association Literature Award for her debut work "Sirène". Since then, the autobiographical novel "La Reine du Silence" (La Reine du Silence) has won the 2004 Medici Literature Award.
"Swallow"
Author: Zhu Shaolin
Publisher: Writer Publisher
Recommended reason: Reading a dancer's journey to find himself may help you understand yourself and pursue the meaning of life.
"Swallow" describes a world of dancers. With the theme of flaws, it tells the story of A Fang, a woman who yearns for dance, who enters the dance troupe of "Professor Zhuo" who admires, and finally successfully starred in a dance drama. Zhu Shaolin retains a mild philosophical thinking in the narrative. Her brushwork does not have the style of complexity and beauty, but it often has a stunning feeling.
either read or dance,
body and soul, there is always one to be on the road.
