舞剧是戏剧的一种,是通过舞蹈手段表现戏剧情节的一种艺术样式。舞剧最初产生于欧洲,约在上世纪初传入我国。舞剧传入中国后,除了演出一些西方的芭蕾舞剧经典剧目外,如《天鹅湖》、《胡桃夹子》、《睡美人》等外,从上世纪五十年代开始,出现了一些以中国民族民间舞蹈技巧以及中国戏曲舞蹈技巧为主要表现形式的舞剧,这些打上了“中国化”烙印的舞剧,被人们称为中国民族舞剧。其中较早的一部民族舞剧是创编于上世纪五十年代的《宝莲灯》,以后又创编了《小刀会》、《丝路花 Dance drama is a kind of drama, is an artistic style of performance drama through dance means. Dance drama was originally produced in Europe, about the early last century into China. After the ballet was introduced to China, in addition to performing some classic western ballet plays, such as “Swan Lake”, “Nutcracker” and “Sleeping Beauty”, since the 1950s, Dance skills and Chinese opera dance skills as the main form of dance drama, these marked “Chinese ” brand of dance drama, known as the Chinese national ballet. One of the earlier national ballet was created in the 1950s “Lotus Light”, and later created a “small knife”, "Silk Road flower