(1.School of Physical Education,Liaoning Normal University,Dalian 116029,China;2. Department of Physical Education,Liaoning Technical University,Fuxin 123000,China) Abstract: Based on the structural characteristics of scoring rules for international rhythmic gymnastics group events (2013-2016 edition), the authors dissected totally 16 movement routines (3 ball routines, 2 ribbon routines and 10 rod routines) completed by top 8 teams in all-round group events in National Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships 2014, put forward the development trends of choreography of routine movement difficulties suitable for rhythmic gymnastics group events in China, and revealed the following findings: the structural characteristics of scoring rules for the new period have decided that “technology” truly endows “art” with traits own by art itself, highlighted the truth of rhythmic gymnastics; undiversified, dull choreography of difficulty types, lacking in highlights in the selection of cooperation types, no featured presentation of dance step combinations, and the lack of thrills in dynamic movements, are deficien-cies in choreography of Chinese group difficult movements; the optimization and selection of difficult movements, the clever interaction of cooperative movements, the exquisite choreography of dance step combinations, the delicate se-lection of dynamic movements, and assurance by the quality of perfect, flawless completion, are development trends of innovative choreography of routine movements in rhythmic gymnastics group events in China. Key words: competition and training;rhythmic gymnastics group event;difficulty choreography;China |