高中英语必修模块2 08

[-1:-3.00]the beauty in Chinese folk music.
[-1:-4.00]Kong's new experiment in Chinese folk music
[-1:-5.00]was so important that he even changed his appearance.
[-1:-6.00]He arrived at his first performance of Chinese folk musicwith all his hair shaved off.
[-1:-7.00]Since the music style was new,his hairstyle had to be new too!
[-1:-8.00]Kong wants to play Chinese music so that the world car learn more about China.
[-1:-9.00]But that is not the full story. Kon sees it as a two-way exchange.
[-1:10.00]He wants to play Chinese music so that he can help transform Chinese music.
[-1:11.00]Good luck,Kong Xiangdong!
[-1:12.00]Lesson 20            Let's Dance Ballet
[-1:13.00]Ballet began in Italy and France during the Renaissance
[-1:14.00]and is still an important art form in Western culture.
[-1:15.00]Ballet tells a story with music and actions but no words .
[-1:16.00]...(1)...Another famous Russian ballet is called 'The Nutcracker'.
[-1:17.00]Many countries have produced ballets,including China.
[-1:18.00]One well- known Chinese ballet is called 'The White-haired Girl'.
[-1:19.00]Folk Dance Folk dances are traditional styles
[-1:20.00]of dancing the came from the ordinary people.
[-1:21.00]They are usually group dances that are taught from one genera to another.
[-1:22.00]China is famous for the many different types
[-1:23.00]of folk dances you can see there,
[-1:24.00]including the dragon dances and the lion dances
[-1:25.00]that are performed in Chinese Spring Festival celebrations
[-1:26.00]... (2) ...Today,many well-known folk dances are performed for audiences,
[-1:27.00]like the Yangge.
[-1:28.00]The Yangge is a kind of rural dance,
[-1:29.00]which is ofter performed on festival occasions.
[-1:30.00]In many parts of the countryon the first
[-1:31.00]and fifteenth days of the first lunar month,
[-1:32.00]you will be able to see many dancers,both young and old,
[-1:33.00]dressed in beautiful costumes
[-1:34.00]skip ping back and forth in time to the loud rhythm of cymbals
[-1:35.00]and drums in the parades.
[-1:36.00]Many people visit China during the Spring Festival
[-1:37.00]to see a performance of this unique rural dance.
[-1:38.00]Popular Dance Popular or social dances often came from folk dances,
[-1:39.00]although they are usually popular for only a short time
[-1:40.00]. ...(3)...Until the eighteenth century,
[-1:41.00]social dances were only held in palaces or the homes of aristocrats.
[-1:42.00]However, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
[-1:43.00]social dancing became more popular.
[-1:44.00]Ballroom dancing,which was a formal dance in a large room
[-1:45.00]became popular in Europe and North America.
[-1:46.00]Central European folk dances, such as the waltz and polka,
[-1:47.00]changed and became the most popular examples of ballroom dances.
[-1:48.00]In the United States the mixing of immigrant cultures produced new forms of dance,
[-1:49.00]such as square dancing and tap dancing.
[-1:50.00]Before the First World War,new ballroom dances came to Europe and America,
[-1:51.00]for example.Fox Trot,Tango, Rumba,Cha-Cha.
[-1:52.00]The Argentine Tango was made internationally popularby Carlos Gardel
[-1:53.00]through his songs and films.
[-1:54.00]From the start of the twentieth century,African-American rhythm
[-1:55.00]and movements also became part of popular social dance:
[-1:56.00]in the 1920s the Charleston;in the 1930s and 1940s the jitterbug;
[-1:57.00]and then the rock 'n'roll dances of the 1950s
[-1:58.00]..(4).. Dancing in couples returned in the 1970s and 1980s with 'disco' music
[-1:59.00]....(5)... This acrobatic form of solo dancing began
[-2:00.00]in the poorer partsof large American cities.