How many kinds of dances are there?

First, professional dance

1, classical dance

Classical dance is based on traditional folk dance, refined, sorted, processed and created by professional workers in past dynasties, and passed down through long-term artistic practice. It is considered to have certain demonstration significance and classical style characteristics.

2. Ballet

European classical dance, transliterated from French ballet. Ballet was born in the Italian Renaissance. It became popular in France in the second half of the17th century and gradually became professional. It became popular all over the world through continuous innovation.

3. National Dance

Generally speaking, it refers to a dance form which is produced and spread among the people, restricted by folk culture, improvised but relatively stable in style, with self-entertainment as its main function. National folk dance is a multi-level concept and flexible interface, which can accommodate various degrees of processing. Folk dance is the symbol of a nation and the soul of a country.

4. Folk dance

Generally speaking, it refers to a dance form which is produced and spread among the people, restricted by folk culture, improvised but relatively stable in style, with self-entertainment as its main function.

5. Modern dance

It is a dance school that rose in the west at the beginning of the 20th century and is opposite to classical ballet. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalistic tendency of classical ballet, that is, to stick to the rules, break away from the single life and simply pursue skills.

Step 6 tap dance

Tap Dance (English: Tap Dance? Dance means tap dance, which is a modern dance style. Formed in the United States in the 1920s. At that time, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their folk dances to the United States and gradually merged to form a new dance form.

7.jazz dance

Jazz dance is a fast and dynamic rhythmic dance, which belongs to extroverted dance, unlike the introverted dance shown by classical ballet or modern dance.

Second, international standard ballroom dancing

1, Latin dance

Latin dance is also called Latin style dance or free ballroom dance. Latin dance is a popular folk dance, which is characterized by being casual, casual and relaxed, and there is a lot of room for free play. It is a warm, romantic, energetic and fiery artistic expression with distinctive characteristics formed by Latin American people in the long history.

2. Modern dance

Modern dance is a sports dance competition. Athletes and men participating in the competition should wear evening dresses, modern dance costumes and bow ties, while women should wear long skirts and formal hairstyles at banquets. This project group includes five projects: waltz, Viennese waltz, tango, foxtrot and quickstep.

Third, fashion dance.

1, disco

The original meaning is record dance, which originally refers to the music that black people dance according to the recording in nightclubs. In the 1970s, it became a general term for virtually any new dance music. Compared with rock and roll, it is characterized by strong, indifferent, metronome-like 4/4 beat and simple lyrics and tunes.

2. rave: around the 1980s, it influenced the dressing, thinking and lifestyle of young people in the 1990s, and the new music type "electronic music" that led this trend suddenly became another avant-garde music type in the 20th century. Going to clubs has also become the most popular activity for young people besides watching movies and shopping for dinner.

3. Hip hop dance

Originated in sub-Saharan Africa, it is the product of the development of jazz dance in the 1990s. Its movements are composed of various combinations of walking, running and jumping, and are composed of joints such as head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, trunk, etc., such as flexion and extension, rotation, circle, sparkling, wave-like twisting, etc.

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Baidu encyclopedia-dance