Types of Dance
For each style of the dance below find a description of the style and a youtube clip of the dance in action.
What is a Hip-Hop Dance? Hip-Hop dance is a dance that consists of vibrant exercises, art, movements, steps, creating a freestyle movement where individuals or groups creates a platform to express self-expression, perseverance, art and talent.
What is a Jazz Dance? Jazz is a dance developed from the 19th and 20th centuries and traditional black social dances. To be a Jazz dancer, you need to have powerful movements and techniques that are also lines with a good base in classical ballet. For men, you need to be strong grounding and a masculine edge.
What is Salsa Dance? Salsa is a Latin dance associated with a music genre of the same name, it was popularised in the United States in the 1960s. It was primarily developed by Puerto Ricans and Cubans living in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
What is a Tap Dance? Tap dance originated in the United States with a combination of several ethnic percussive dances, primarily West African. It is a unique dance that uses a metal end heel of shoes. It creates a tapping sound where it creates a beat and music of art, by rhythmically striking the floor or any hard surfaces.
What is the Contemporary Dance? Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performers that developed during the mid-twentieth century. Contemporary dance draws on both classical ballet and modern dance. There are unpredictable changes in rhythms, speeds, movements and directions.
Kumusta Skyler! Wow this is awesome research. I really enjoyed reading about each dance styles and watching all of the dance styles! They are all so uniquely different but also similar in many ways! Do you have a favourite style of dance?
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