There are the following types of dance:
1. Solo dance
It means to perform alone, so it can also be called "solo dance". A solo can be a complete work or a lead dance in a dance theater or a dance work.
There is also a category of solo dance refers to the ballet duo "variation" part of the ballet, that is, in the duo after the dance, there are men and women to perform their own independent dance section.
2. Trio
The work is named after the three dancers who perform it; however, the dance section that is not performed by three dancers can be called "trio". If the three dancers always perform in a uniform dynamic, it is only a small group dance.
Most of the "trio dances" are small dances with episodes, and they are the smallest dance styles that can be composed of character conflicts. Based on the conflict of character to design the dance section and stage composition, the trio dance movement is mainly asymmetrical and contradictory; making it a dance style with special characteristics.
3. Group Dance
Generally, it refers to a multi-person dance performed by more than three people. From the performance of gender can be divided into men's group dance, women's group dance and men's and women's large group dance; from the composition of the content can be divided into episodic group dance and lyrical group dance.
Group dance can be an independent dance work, or can be a fragment of the dance theater. An important performance characteristic of group dance is neat movement and consistent style.
4. Group Dance
Usually refers to the urban plaza, campus, factory by the people's collective performance of the dance. Distinguished from the rural villagers on the occasion of the annual festival of self-indulgence, collective folk dance; also distinguished from the stage by a number of people performing group dance.
Collective dance as a kind of urban mass dance, with a strong self-indulgence, dance steps are generally relatively simple, formation changes are not complex, is a relatively easy to carry out the "everyone jumps", for the active workers, students, the public's spare time and cultural life is extremely useful, most of the collective dance movements, from China's folk dance or western ballroom dance. Folk dance or western dance.
5. Group Dance
Usually, several relatively independent and complete dance works are combined together for performance. Combination of dances, some are based on the **** the same theme, some are based on the **** the same form; also based on the choreographer or performer's own creative or performance style for the combination.
The group dance itself can be performed independently, but also can be a means of rendering the atmosphere and advancing the situation in the dance drama.
The above is the classification of all the species, no matter what it changes into, it can not be separated from the above five kinds of five kinds of categories.