According to the different styles and characteristics of dance, which four categories can it be divided into?

Classical dance, folk dance, modern dance and new style dance.

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Dance is a kind of performing art, and Liuwa art uses its body to complete various elegant or difficult movements, usually accompanied by music, with rhythmic movements as the main means of expression.

With the help of music and other props. Dance itself has a variety of social significance and functions, including sports, social/courtship, sacrifice, etiquette and so on.

Classical dance is based on traditional folk dance, refined, sorted and processed by professional workers in past dynasties, and tested by long-term artistic practice. It is considered to be a dance with certain demonstration significance and classical style characteristics.

Disco, originally meaning record dance, 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.

Tap dancing is a modern dance, which means tapping and patting. 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.

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.

Jazz dance is an extension of African dance, which was brought to the United States by slaves and gradually evolved into a localized popular dance in the United States. Jazz dance is mainly a dance that pursues pleasure, liveliness and vitality.

Abstract: The aesthetic social function of dance art is the unity of aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic utility. Dance is also an art form for people to engage in social communication, develop culture and entertainment, and promote physical and mental health, which has a wide mass.