What Everybody Ought to Know About Dance Styles

With the outstanding popularity of dance competitions like “Dancing with the Stars” and “Do You Think You can Dance?”, viewers have had the opportunity to witness a variety of dance styles like Ballet, Ball Room and Hip Hop. Nowadays, thanks to these TV dance shows, the public has developed not only a familiarity with dancing styles but also a greater curiosity about them. So if you want to learn more about dance styles stay tuned because you are about to get the scoop.

Dance has always been an artistic expression where people discover their own identity and passion. It’s practiced by people from all over the world and over time it has developed into unique and distinctive forms. Here are some of the most popular dance categories:

• Ballroom dances: This trendy category includes social dances in which couples follow a conventional pattern of steps. Among them are the Waltz, Tango, Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Mambo, Quick-Step, Jive, and Bolero.
• African-American and Traditional Jazz dances: These dances are centered on folk and social dance practice and include the Charleston, Swing, Tap dance, Moonwalk, and Boogie-woogie.
• Worldwide dance or Latin Dances: These styles are best known for its sensual hip action and sexy feel. Some good examples are the Salsa, Flamenco, Tango, Lambada, Polka, Folk and Belly dance.
• Professional Performance dance: These are concert dances performed for an audience, like the elegant Ballet, Contemporary dance, Modern dance, and Tap dance.
• Modern dance: These involve expressive dance movements based on abstract ideas. Among them are the House dance, Punk dance, Rave dance, Disco dance and Bollywood dance.
• Hip Hop and Funk dance: These are street dance styles performed to hip-hop music, like Breakdance, Bounce, Street Jazz, Locking, and Popping.

This was just a glimpse of the most popular dance categories but if you happen to be more curious about dance styles, check out this video. Dancing is entertaining. It’s passion for some people as well as profession for some. Whether you can or you can’t but you dance! Everybody does.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for my blog next week,

Vanessa
 
Here is the link to my other blog: My passion for dancing


Sources:

• Bendinghaus, T. (ND). Types of Dance. Retrieved: April 16, 2015. From: http://dance.about.com/od/typesofdance/tp/Dance_Types.htm
• Lad, K. (December 30, 2011). Types of dancing and different dancing styles. Retrieved: April 16, 2015. From: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-dances-and-different-dancing-styles.html