The Effect of Dance Education on College Students' Artistic Quality Under the New Media

Introduction

Dance is an indispensable part of art education in colleges and universities. It significantly improves students’ physical quality, body posture, and movement skills (Guo, 2020). Dance education also promotes students’ communication in teamwork and collaborative creation. All colleges and universities dance program aim to cultivate students, with aesthetic education as the primary goal, integrating students’ emotional characteristics and the artistic atmosphere (Salfran, 2019). Dance education in colleges and universities is also a frontier subject of art courses, which should focus on cultivating students’ artistic quality (Bosi, 2002). The aesthetic level is mainly reflected in students’ artistic quality and creative ability (Warburton, 2003). However, learning occurs through repeated actions in the actual classroom, so innovative elements must be incorporated (Wen, 2021). Dance can not only highlight the vitality of life but also express the spiritual connotation of human beings. Dance is the product of artists’ refining and processing based on life (Mao, 2021). It can create dynamic truth, goodness, and beauty in concept and offer moving emotional activities to enrich people’s spiritual worlds. At the same time, dance, as a form of beauty, has an unshakable position in social culture. Therefore, dance education in colleges and universities can help students master dance knowledge and theory but also help shape their bodies, improve their aesthetic taste, ability, and artistic temperament, and improve their overall quality (Bonbright, 1999). Similar to many quality-oriented education disciplines, colleges and universities can draw on various approaches to dance and art education, including professional dance courses, public elective dance courses, dance clubs with different styles and distinctive features, and various literary and artistic competitions on or off campus (Liu, 2021). Many students participate because of their hobbies and use new media technology to learn, share, and display the charm of dance art in different forms and means of expression.

New media platforms share the characteristics of audio-visual integration, vivid images, and rich information, and their use is not limited by time or space(Posey, 2002). With the effective use of digital technology, new media can provide users with services and information through computers, mobile phones, wireless communications, computer networks, satellites, and other channels. The resources needed for teaching can be quickly mobilized. The new media allows the study of dance theory, the practice of simple dance movements, and the content, artistic conception, emotion, aesthetics, and impact of the works to be displayed in multiple ways (Levin, 1978). The emergence of new media technology has changed many people’s lives, and new media technology has been integrated into various industries. New media technology has revitalized many industries that were in decline.

Regarding college dance performance, we should recognize the advantages of new media and make rational use of this technology to promote the development of college dance education. The concept of new media is the main application used in educational reform. We can use it to spread new educational concepts to students through the Internet, mobile devices, and other media. Compared with traditional education, adding new media technology to dance courses in colleges and universities can improve interactivity in the education process (Brooks Mata & Kasra, 2017). Teachers use new media tools to teach content beyond basic knowledge, effectively combining old knowledge with new knowledge in the teaching process. This new approach to dance teaching should use media tools as auxiliary tools for students’ learning, mainly to improve their motivation to learn and help them form subjective initiative (Qu, 2018). To transform participatory teaching, media platforms should be used to exchange learning content through interactive applications. Therefore, adding new media to the dance education system in colleges and universities can help students improve their learning efficiency. For college students’ artistic literacy, the educational concept of new media transformation aligns with the requirements of the local education system.