Small hi organized the types of dance, for your reference:
A professional dance
Classical dance
Classical dance is on the basis of the traditional dance of the national folk, through the successive generations of professional workers to distill, collate, process, create, and through the Longer period of artistic practice test, passed down is considered to have a certain exemplary significance and classical style characteristics of the dance. Generally speaking, classical dances have strict programs, standardized movements and superior skills, reflecting the high degree of integration of "form, spirit, strength and rhythm".
Ballet?
European classical dance, translated from French ballet. Ballet is a kind of anaerobic exercise, with the basic movements of ballet as the training content, its fitness strength is the amount of general fitness sports can not be compared, open, jump, straight, standing is the four elements of ballet, with the contraction of muscle fibers, so that the development of all parts of the body is balanced, beautiful posture, while in the melodious music accompaniment, so that the beauty of the display of intuitive and subtle.
Folk Dance
Generally refers to the dance forms that are produced and circulated in folklore, subject to the constraints of folk culture, improvised but relatively stable in style, and with the main function of self-entertainment. Folk dance is free, vivid, lively, can be easier than pure dance to show more life content, and easy to understand, so very much for the majority of people in China. In addition to the clever use of props, skills combined, such as fans, handkerchiefs, long silk, tambourines, single drums, flower sticks, lanterns, umbrellas and so on, greatly enhancing the artistic expression of the dance, so that the dance movement is more rich and beautiful, colorful.
Modern Dance
It is a kind of dance faction opposite to classical ballet that emerged in the West at the beginning of the 20th century. It advocates to get rid of the shackles of classical ballet's overly rigid movement program, and to freely express people's true feelings through dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement. Therefore, the movements in dance are usually derived from the basic actions of daily life, such as walking, running, jumping, spinning, squatting, and sliding, and so on.
Tap Dance
Tap dance (English: tap? dance) has the meaning of tapping and knocking, and is a modern dance style. It was formed in the United States in the 1920s. At that time, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their respective folk dances to the United States, and gradually fused to form a new dance form. This form of dance is more open and free without a lot of formalization. Instead of focusing on the physicality of the dance, the dancers focus on the intricate techniques of toe-tapping and heel-striking rhythms.
Jazz dance
Jazz dance is a kind of rapid and dynamic rhythmic dance, is a kind of outgoing dance, unlike the classical ballet or modern dance expressed a kind of introverted dance. Jazz dance absorbs the elements and techniques of ballet, modern dance, street dance and Latin dance, sending the hips, twisting the waist, and twisting the body in a wave shape, to express a more powerful and energetic style.
Two, international standard ballroom dance
Latin dance?
Latin dance is also known as Latin style dance or free social dance. Latin dance is a popular folk dance, casual, leisure, relaxation is its characteristics, there is a large space for free play, Latin dance enthusiasm, soft and sexy rumba, lively and playful cha-cha-cha, free and relaxing cowboy dance, passionate and wild Samba, powerful and masculine bullfighting dance so that it is loved by the people of Latin America.
Modern Dance
Modern Dance is a sports dance competition in a group of events, to participate in the competition athletes men to wear a tuxedo modal dance suits, bow tie, women to wear a long dress, combing banquet formal hairstyle. This cluster of events *** includes five waltzes, the Viennese waltz, the tango, the foxtrot and the quickstep.
Three, fashionable dance
Disco
Disco, willing to be a record dance, began as a reference to the music that black people danced to on a recording in nightclubs, and in the 1970s became practically a catch-all term for any current dance music. In contrast to rock, it is characterized by a powerful, undistinguished, metronome-like 4/4 beat with simple lyrics and tunes.
Street dance
Originally originated in sub-Saharan Africa, it is a product of the development of jazz dance to the 1990s, and its movements are made up of various combinations of walking, running, and jumping, and through the flexion and extension of the joints of the head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, and trunk, rotating, circling, swinging vibration, and wavy writhing, etc., all of which are consistently combined. Each action has its own specific fitness effect, not only pay attention to the upper limbs and lower limbs, abdomen and back, head and torso movement coordination, but also pay attention to the composition of each link of each part of the independent movement. 80's spread to China, and gradually as a fitness activity spread.
There may be some other species not mentioned, welcome to add~