民族国家视角:中国当代舞蹈的现代性研究

Nation-state as a Method: Modernity Research on Chinese Contemporary Dance

现代历史的重要特点之一就是构建民族国家,而民族国家建构的内容之一就是通过现代性文化工程形成社会动员、集体共识和文化认同,由是决定了现代国家会将包括舞蹈在内的文艺作为现代性文化工程建设的关键领域。这一民族国家建构、现代性文化工程建设的历史语境,对现代以来中国舞蹈的存在及文化、艺术等方面的特征形成,具有决定性的建构意义,也是中国舞蹈重要的历史特点。但是,近些年来的舞蹈研究之中,有意无意忽视、贬低甚至抹去民族国家在现代以来中国舞蹈历史中的存在及意义,这无疑是历史虚无主义的。因此,将民族国家作为研究现代以来中国舞蹈的方法之一,不仅是对舞蹈历史的尊重,也是积极参与当下舞蹈文化和艺术发展路径对话的重要路径。

Constructing nation-State is one of the most important features of modern history. While achieving social mobilization,reaching collective consensus and forming cultural identity by launching modernity culture project is the key content of the nation-state construction. Thus,modernity state will consider art including dance as an important part of modernity culture project in the future.The historical context mentioned above contributes constructively to the existence and feature-forming of Chinese dance,culture and art since modern times. However,when reviewing recent dance researches,we can find the role that nation-state played in the existence and significance of Chinese dance history since modern times has been ignored, depreciated or even erased intentionally or unintentionally. Obviously this can be seen as historical nihilism. Therefore,taking the nation-state as a method in Chinese dance research since modern times is not only for showing respect to history but also for participating actively in the dialogue between modern dance culture and art development approaches.