Social dance is an international social dance originated in the West, since the 16th and 17th centuries, social dance has become a common social activity in European countries, so there is a "language of the world". After the 1920s, ballroom dancing became popular all over the world, so it is also called "international dance".
The types of dance include: waltz, rumba, tango, cha-cha-cha-cha, and so on.
Related introduction:
1. Waltz:
Waltz according to the speed of the division into fast and slow two kinds of waltz, the people of the fast waltz called Vienna waltz, and do not crown the word "Vienna" that is the slow waltz, which is evolved from the Vienna waltz. As a three-step waltz, its basic steps for a beat to jump one step, each bar three beats to jump three steps, but there is also a bar to jump two steps or four steps of a specific dance.
2. Rumba:
Rumba is characterized by a more romantic, charming dance, sexy and passionate; the pace of delicate love, lingering, pay attention to the body posture, dance soft and charming, graceful steps swing, if that is to tease, is to express the feelings of men and women adoration of a dance.
3. Tango:
Originated in Argentina. Tango belongs to the Latin dance program in the earliest days, and later evolved into one of the five dance programs of modern dance, Tango is currently one of the official programs of the International Standard Dance Competition.
4. Cha Cha Cha Cha:
Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha is a Cuban dance, and like Rumba, Cuban dancers begin to advance or lead with the second beat of the music.
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Related background:
In the eleventh and second centuries, these countries in Europe will be some of the folk dances to be refined and standardized, the line became popular in the court of the "court dance", elegant and complex, formal and pretentious, lost the style of folk dance. Folk dance style, only prevalent in the court, exclusively for the aristocracy to practice and appreciate, is the privilege of the aristocrats.
After the French Revolution, the court was dissolved, and the "court dance" entered the civilian society and became a social dance for everyone. In 1768, the first ballroom appeared in Paris. From then on, ballroom dancing became popular in European society, and the ballroom dancing of this time had a strong national flavor and was called the American school of social dancing.
In the early nineteenth century, due to the rise of the United States, the original popular in Europe, social dance with the European immigrants and imported into the United States, and at the same time, non-, a large number of immigrants from Latin America has also brought a strong style of the tropical region of the folk dance, which come directly from the folk, not affected by the influence of the court dance, the form of a more free.
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