Traditional Music, Dance and House Dance, The Way of Integrating Small Idols - Take LoveLive As an Example

Abstract

LoveLive is a Japanese Secondary idol project. LoveLive has become one of the most popular works of the second dimension culture in Japan and the whole Asia region. It depicts the wonderful course of 9 young and beautiful girls joining hands to form an idol group. Through the small idol’s wonderful performance and smart and beautiful dance, it cleverly presented the mutual integration and fierce collision between traditional dance, small idol culture and otaku dance. In the form of a questionnaire, this study conducted an in-depth survey of people of different ages’ familiarity with and cognition of house dance and small idols, and also explored their views and opinions on the impact of house dance and traditional music and dance. This article ultimately found that combining elements from home dance with traditional music and dance has a great development in the inheritance of traditional culture, and many young people have increased their understanding and love for traditional culture through this approach.