[Comprehensive] Beijing Normal University Dance Education Research Office released the first survey report on the aesthetic cognition of Chinese netizens in Beijing on the 21st. The report shows that street dance and square dance are the top of the dance contacts among Chinese netizens.
report pointed out that square dance reflects netizens' preference for group dance forms. (Photo source: Hong Kong Phoenix Network Video)
The survey was conducted in the form of an online questionnaire, covering 31 provinces (municipalities directly under the central government), including urban and rural areas. The research team surveyed 50,000 adults over 16 years old to participate in the survey through the Internet, and finally obtained 3,000 valid samples.
report shows that Chinese netizens have a strong desire for the pursuit of dance beauty, among which they pay high attention to street dance, square dance, ballroom dance, Latin dance , and ballet; for dance education, people have a high degree of participation in primary and university stages, while in junior and senior high school stages, showing a gap, reflecting aesthetic education for the purpose of exams, which is very utilitarian; netizens mainly come into contact with dance through media channels, and early learned from TV and theater performances, and now they obtain relevant content from the dissemination of short video APPs such as Douyin and Kuaishou; in the influence of interpersonal relationships, teachers are the social group with the greatest influence on the aesthetic education of national dance. Data in the
report shows that among the types of dances that netizens have skipped, the total number of street dance and square dance has exceeded 60%, and more than 20% of netizens even said that they have not danced once. The above total has exceeded 80%, and the dance experience of Chinese netizens is very lacking.
Xiao Xiangrong, director of the Dance Department of Beijing Normal University, admitted that the results shown in the report brought a lot of thoughts to practitioners. "Netizens pay high attention to street dance, ballroom dance, Latin dance, and ballet, which reflects that foreign dance has a strong influence on the aesthetic power of our people and brings reflection to dance educators."
At the same time, square dance has the greatest impact on the aesthetic awareness of the overall netizens, reflecting netizens' preference for group dance forms. He believes that this proposes a new path to spread dance culture for dance educators.
The old man and the old man in Zhengzhou People's Park became popular on the Internet and was nicknamed " swing dance " and was nicknamed "the holy place for awkward dance" by netizens. (Picture source: Pear Video)
Compared with square dance, young people are more in love with street dance. Street dance, born in the 1960s, was originally a dance of African-American poor, and then gradually became the main force of popular culture. It was introduced to China in the 1980s and has become increasingly popular among the teenagers in recent years.
At the beginning of this year, the street dance variety show " Hot Blood Street Dance Team " and "This! It's Street Dance" started broadcasting, continuing the street culture craze brought by " China has hip-hop " last year. Chen Wei, the general producer of "China Has Hip Hop", once said that since the "post-00s" and "post-10s" have become the main targets of major online platforms, promoting the street culture of unyielding and rebellious spirit is just in line with the attitude of young people who love to express themselves today.
It can also be seen from various social network platforms that street dance and street dressing have become a trend for young Chinese people today.
Jabbawockeez street dance group, which is very popular in the United States, many of its members are Asian. The dance troupe once danced with Taylor Swift. (Picture source: ABC video)
