What is Square Dancing, Types

Square dance is one of the largest subsystems in the art of dance. Square dance is self-entertainment and performance as a whole, with a special form of performance, enthusiastic and cheerful performance content, the main body of the collective dance to perform the dance form. Square dance is not simply a folk dance, square dance should be divided by the form of performance, not from the type of dance. Dance art with the development of society in the development (square dance as a dance to define this is narrow). Square dance is a form of performance, not a type of dance, folk dance in the square dance in a larger proportion. According to art historians, the earliest human art is dance, and square dance is the mother of dance. Square dance originates from social life, produced in the people, the masses are the creators and performers of square dance. There are more than fifty nationalities in China, and there are thousands of square dances in the Han nationality alone. Each ethnic group has its own unique square dance form. Square dance has its own performance form and structural characteristics. In today's square dance in a variety of forms using various types of dance.