What is ballroom dancing? What kinds of dances are there?

Social dance is an international social dance that originated in the west. Since 16 and 17 centuries, ballroom dancing has become a common social activity in European countries, so it is known as the "world language". After the 1920s, ballroom dancing became popular all over the world, so it was also called "international dance".

Its dance types are: waltz, rumba, tango, cha cha cha and so on.

Related introduction:

1. Waltz:

After waltzes are divided into two types according to speed, people call fast waltzes Vienna waltzes instead of slow waltzes with the word "Vienna" evolved from Vienna waltzes. As a three-step dance, the basic footwork of waltz is one beat, three beats and three steps per bar, but there are also two or four steps per bar.

2. rumba:

Rumba is characterized by romance, dancing charm, sexiness and enthusiasm; Graceful steps are full of love, lingering, body-oriented, gentle and charming, graceful footwork, and flirting at arm's length, which is a kind of dance to express the affection between men and women.

3. Tango:

Originated in Argentina. Tango was originally a Latin dance event, and later evolved into one of the five major modern dance events. At present, tango is one of the official events in the international standard dance competition.

4. Chen Wenjing Cha:

It's a Cuban dance. Like rumba, Cuban dancers begin to advance or guide with the second beat of music.

Extended data

Related background:

In the 1 1 century and the 2nd century, these European countries refined and standardized some folk dances and became popular "court dances" in the courts. It is elegant, complicated and artificial, losing the style of folk dance. It is only popular in the court, and it is the privilege of nobles to learn and appreciate it.

After the French Revolution, the court disintegrated, and "court dance" also entered the civilian society and became a ballroom dance that everyone could dance. 1768, the first ballroom appeared in Paris. Since then, ballroom dancing has become popular in European society. At this time, the social dance has a strong national flavor, which is called the social dance of the American school.

/kloc-At the beginning of the 0/9th century, due to the rise of the United States, ballroom dancing popular in Europe was introduced to the United States with European immigrants. At the same time, a large number of immigrants from Latin America also brought folk dances with strong tropical style, which came directly from the people and were not influenced by court dances, and their forms were more free.

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