舞蹈,据权威工具书《辞海》的释义,为:“艺术的一种。以经过提炼、组织和艺术加工的人体动作为主要表现手段,表达人们的思想感情,反映社会生活。其基本要素是动作姿态、节奏和表情。舞蹈与诗歌、音乐结合在一起,是人类历史上最早产生的艺术形式之一。”(《辞海》缩印本,上海辞书出版社1989年版第234页)还有人说,舞蹈是“动作的艺术”、“情感的艺术”、“时空的艺术”,等等。尽管上述解释与定义有许多不同,但它们有一个共同点,即均承认舞蹈是一种特殊的艺术,这种特殊性表现在它的时间与空间、内心与形体、视觉与想像、传统与现代的互动性上。这诸多的互动性,也就决定了舞蹈作为“艺术之母”在教 Dance, according to the authoritative reference book “Cihai”, is: “A kind of art, expressing people’s thoughts and emotions and reflecting social life by means of human actions through refining, organization and art processing, whose basic elements are Action gesture, rhythm and expression.Dancing is combined with poetry and music and is one of the earliest art forms in the history of humankind. ”(“ Diocesan of the Sea ”, Shanghai Dictionary Press, 1989, p. 234) Dance is “the art of motion”, “the art of emotion”, “the art of space and time,” and so on. Although there are many differences between the above explanations and the definitions, they all have one thing in common that they all recognize that dance is a special kind of art. This particularity is manifested in its time and space, its inner and its body, its vision and imagination, its tradition and its modernity Interaction. Many of these interactions also determine the dance as a “mother of arts.”