Author(s)

Yaxiong Liu

School of Music, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, China.

As dance is an integral part of the market development in the era of market-oriented economy, the expansion of audience population for dancing and the refinement of audiences’ tastes thanks to the popularity of various TV shows focusing on dance competitions and re-defines the expression “skills”. It is no longer limited to refer to the superb skills of dancers, instead, it has the attributes of symbols and both functions of “signifier” and “signified”. It refers to combinations of visible movements, invisible choreographic skills, the ability of dancers and choreographers, and stage design skills that internalizes and directs the said visible movements, and prospers in the market-oriented economy development following the mainstream aesthetic. The development of “skills” itself could produce economic benefits, and the discussion of the development of symbolic attributes of “skills” in the current market-oriented economy shall be made first based on the analysis of their attributes and then on their symbolic attributes in the market-oriented economy.

Beauty in the Skills, Art Form, Art Attributes, Market-Oriented Economy, Symbols

Liu, Y. (2022) Changes in the Attributes of “Skill” Symbols of Dance under the Development of Market-Oriented Economy. Art and Design Review, 10, 411-417. doi: 10.4236/adr.2022.103032.