Tango is a series of National Standard Dance (Modern Dance).
Latin Dance is one of the two series of international standard ballroom dances,
The other series of international standard ballroom dances is Modern Dance, which also consists of five styles: Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep, and Viennese Waltz.
Fast Foxtrot 4/4 48 slow, fast, fast, slow, three beats
Slow Waltz 3/4 32 one step per beat
Slow Foxtrot 4/4 slow, fast, fast, slow, two beats, fast, one beat
Tango 2/4 32 slow, fast, fast, slow, slow, one beat
Samba 2/4 58 slow, fast, fast, slow, one beat
Rumba 4/4 40 Fast Foxtrot, Quickstep and Viennese Waltz. Rumba 4/4 40 fast, fast, slow, slow = 2/4 measures
Fast Waltz 3/4 56 one beat per step
Bullfighting 2/4, 3/4, 6/8 55-70 one beat per step
Guitars (Cowboys) 4/4 40-46 slow, slow, slow, fast, fast, slow
Cha-cha 4/4 56 slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow
Cha-cha-cha 4/4 32-34 Slow, slow, fast, fast, slow
The Modern Dance is a cluster of events in the DanceSport competition in which athletes compete in tuxedo suits and bow ties for men, and long dresses and formal party hairstyles for women. This project group *** including waltz, Vienna waltz, tango, fox trot and quickstep dance five. Competition judges to participate in the pairs of athletes do not score, only to determine the order of merit, and ultimately based on the total ranking of the top three winners.
In the Modern Dance category, there are five types of dances: Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep and Viennese Waltz.
The waltz, also known as the round dance, slow waltz, Boston waltz, originated in Austria folk dance, elegant and noble dance, known as "after the dance"! Its main feature is to lift, swing, reverse, tilt into one, dancing under the accompaniment of beautiful music, two pairs of rotating, warm and romantic.
Tango dance, a kind of international standard ballroom dance, originated in Africa, popular in Europe and the United States, 2/4 or 4/4 beat, the speed is smooth, mostly sliding, and rarely have ups and downs. Its biggest characteristic is: when we move in one direction, while our body is facing another direction.
Foxtrot, is a unique style of social dance, its music is 4/4 beat, 30 bars a minute, the music distribution of the strength of the moderate, the dance is light and free, jumping up and down.
The Quickstep is easy, cheerful, and lively, and is therefore very popular among people. Its music for the 4/4 beat, 50 bars per minute, slow step usually accounted for two beats, dance steps light jumping, full of youthful vigor.
The Vienna waltz, also known as the fast waltz, is mainly characterized by non-stop rotation, the number of steps is very small. The music of the Viennese waltz is called round dance music, 3 beat music, 56 bars per minute.
Latin national standard dance is standardized, strict, standard, it is in the Latin dance on the basis of the development of norms formed by the formation of competitive professional dance, including rumba, cha-cha-cha, cowboy dance, samba, bullfighting dance.
Latin dance is also known as Latin style dance or free social dance. It is the origin of Latin national standard dance. Latin dance is a popular folk dance, casual, leisure, relaxation is its characteristics, there is a large space for free play, it is the Latin American people in the long history of the formation of a distinctive feature of passionate, romantic and energetic, fiery forms of artistic expression, by the Latin American people's favorites, become an essential and important part of their lives.
One of the most famous and loved by most people Salsa originated in Cuba, Cuban Salsa from the mambo, the mambo is the 1940s -60s is very popular dance, is precisely a variant of him. Cuban salsa originated in the streets, where people danced to the music and partied freely, filling the air with joy and delight. Now popular in Europe and the United States and the world salsa is the United States of America New York salsa. United States of America New York salsa and Cuban salsa is fundamentally different from the New York salsa is a small section of 4 beats, jumping 3 steps, the fourth beat pause not to jump, characterized by the joyful and enthusiastic, dance movement patterns, changes quickly, with a very strong appreciation and performances. Wholeheartedly devoted, every part of the body is full of passion and vigor, New York jumping method is currently the main jumping method. Cuban salsa, Cuban jumping method of 4 beats per bar to jump 4 steps, the fourth beat point, characterized by fun and self-indulgent components more, in comparison, the New York three-step jumping method is more passionate and more charismatic and more energetic.
The five Latin dances have their own styles, the passion of samba, cha-cha-cha's lively, rumba's graceful, bullfighting's strong, cowboy's funny. Different styles, the main thing is to grasp the connotation.
In the understanding of the music, and more importantly, the melody of the music. As learning to dance, practicing dance, walking dance, running dance, dancing. And dancing is the highest state of dancers. As we all know, music is the soul of dance, dancers through the body to express the flow of notes, is the highest state of dance.
The difference between Eastern and Western cultures has caused us Orientals to be more subtle and shy when dancing Latin, not daring to use our bodies to express ourselves or even to use our eyes to communicate. Therefore, more understanding of the Western culture on the dance "flavor of Latin dance" is very helpful.
The balance between partners, the balance of force, the balance of the center of gravity, the six-dimensional space: up and down, left and right, front and back. In short, balance is everywhere, and it is always present in the dance. As for Merengue, it originated from Dominican Republic, with 2 beats per bar, with the hip joints swinging left and right sequentially, cycling back and forth plus the constant change of hands, extremely romantic, sexy and charming.
Latin dance is a kind of dance art that focuses on the movement of shoulders, abdomen, waist and hips. Participating in the movement include rectus abdominis, internal oblique, external oblique, erector spinae, latissimus dorsi and hundreds of other muscles. From the 1960s to the present, many researchers have done research on the physiological and psychological effects of physical dance, on average, every Latin dance, waist twisting 160-180 times, the highest heart rate of women up to 197 times / minute, the highest heart rate of men up to 210 times / minute. About energy metabolism for more than 8.5, equivalent to athletes to complete an 800-meter thermal energy consumption, greater than the thermal energy consumption of tennis and badminton. The effect of fat loss can be imagined!
The most representative dance of Latin dance is Rumba, which is known as the "soul of Latin". People who learn Latin dance will generally take the rumba as the first dance to learn. Rumba is a dance that expresses the love story between men and women, so its music is more soft and lingering, and the movement can make the female partner fully show the feminine charm and the curves of the hips and buttocks. The movement of the female partner can fully show the softness of the woman and the curves of her hips and buttocks, and the dance is very beautiful. Another representative of the dance --- cha-cha-cha originated in Mexico, although there are many similarities with the rumba, but it is playful and cheerful, style and rumba is very different, the action of the dashing handsome and energetic.