There are currently fourteen common ballroom dances, including tango, samba, Viennese pas de deux, prado, private romantic pas de deux, cha cha, Austrian four-step, Franziger, shag, street dance, and Bristol Quick step, Balinese Indian pas de deux, Chaturbate and ballet, etc.
Ballroom dancing is an international social dance originating from the West, also known as ballroom dancing, party dancing, social dancing, and ballroom dancing.
It originated in Europe and evolved based on ancient folk dances. Since the 16th and 17th centuries, ballroom dancing has become a common social activity in European countries, so it is called the "world language". After the 1920s, ballroom dancing became popular all over the world, so it was also called "international dance".
As early as 1924, ballroom dancing was introduced to several major cities and treaty ports in China at that time. In the early years of liberation, in the 1950s and 1960s, ballroom dancing was still very popular in China. After the Cultural Revolution ended, and in the 1980s, ballroom dancing was once again accepted by the masses, but the level of ballroom dancing has greatly differed from that of world ballroom dancing. gap. Due to the influence of court dance, the style of social dance is: solemn and elegant dance postures, strict and standardized dance steps, and quite gentlemanly, so it is called the social dance of the European school.
In the 11th and 12th centuries, these European countries refined and standardized some folk dances, forming "palace dances" that were popular in the palace. They were elegant, complicated, restrained and artificial, and lost the style of folk dances. , only popular in the court, exclusively for nobles to practice and appreciate, and it is the privilege of nobles.
After the French Revolution, the court disintegrated, and "court dance" also entered civilian society, becoming a social dance that everyone can dance in the society. In 1768, the first dance hall appeared in Paris. Since then, ballroom dancing has become popular in European society. The ballroom dancing at this time has a strong national flavor and is called the American school of social dancing.