Contemporary dance performance and choreography methods still have certain limitations in terms of emotional expression, music fit, and body movement accuracy. Dancers' insufficient understanding of the music structure, poor coherence of emotional narrative, and low matching between movements and rhythms have affected the appeal of dance works and the resonance of the audience. To solve these problems, this paper conducts an in-depth analysis of contemporary dance performance and choreography methods from body language to emotional narrative, and explores how to optimize dance creation through the "music choreography" method. The study arranges dance movements based on music structure (form, melody, rhythm, texture), and combines the performers' emotional expression ability to strengthen the emotional hierarchy and narrative logic of dance. Through experiments comparing the performance effects of different choreography methods, the study uses a variety of methods such as heart rate monitoring, facial expression analysis, questionnaires, and expert scoring to quantify the ability to control the details of emotional expression. The results show that works using the "music choreography" method have significantly improved audience emotional resonance, dance movement fluency, and music fit, especially in terms of movement rhythm matching, emotional expression accuracy, and stage presentation integrity. Music choreography (experimental group) and traditional choreography (control group) show significant differences in multiple dimensions. Regarding the clarity of dance emotional expression, the experimental group scores 88.4%, significantly higher than the control group's 72.5%.

Dongge Chen. From Body Language to Emotional Narrative: An In-depth Analysis of Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography Methods. International Journal of Educational Innovation and Science (2025), Vol. 6, Issue 1: 40-49. https://doi.org/10.38007/IJEIS.2025.060106.

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