In the eleventh and second centuries, some European countries refined and standardized some folk dances, and became popular in the court of the court dance, simple and elegant, formal and pretentious, lost the style of folk dance, and only prevailed in the court, exclusively for the aristocrats to learn to dance and enjoy, is the privilege of the aristocrats. After the French Revolution, the court was dissolved, and the court dance entered the common people's society, and became a social dance for everyone in the society. In 1768, the first ballroom appeared in Paris, and since then, ballroom dancing became popular in European society. At this time the ballroom dance has a strong national flavor, known as the American school of social dance. In 1950, Britain hosted a world competition. The International DanceSport Federation (IDSF), which has 74 member countries, officially became a member of the International Olympic Committee on September 4, 1997, and in 2000 it became a performance item at the Sydney Olympic Games, and in 2008 it became an official competition item. Although the national standard dance is similar to the social dance, but the dance posture, dance step requirements are very strict, usually two people dance together. Dance posture have been standardized and classified, there is a unified international terminology, terminology with English accent.
The development process of physical dance has experienced the original dance ----- public dance ----- folk dance ----- court dance ----- social dance ----- new and old international standards of social dance and other stages of development. The predecessor of sports dance is social dance as far as the near future is concerned, also known as social dance and ballroom dance.
Sport dance can be divided into two stages of development, the first stage, is the 1924 Royal Society of Professional Teachers of Ballroom Dance of the then social dance to sort out the various types of dance steps, dance, jumping method to systematize and standardize. Since then, the "blues", "slow waltz slow foxtrot", "fast waltz", "quick step", "rumba "" Tango "and other seven kinds of ballroom dance, called the general international standard ballroom dance is also known as the general sports dance.
After more than half a century of evolution, with today's science and technology, cultural development, social dance is not only a self-indulgent dance, but developed into an artistic high, technical performance of competitive dance. As early as 1947 in Berlin held the first World Ballroom Dance Championships, in 1960, Latin dance also officially became the world championship program, which is the second stage of the development of sports dance, people called "contemporary international standard ballroom dance", also known as "sports dance". It is also called "sport dance". Because it has a high degree of artistry and skill, so every year in the international are different regions, different levels, different scales of a variety of competitions, and will be included in the Olympic Games performance program.
Sports dance can be divided into two categories, 10 types of dance. The first category is modern dance, including "waltz", "tango", "foxtrot", "quickstep" and "Vienna waltz". "Vienna Waltz"; the second category, for the Latin dance, including "Rumba", "Cha Cha", "Samba", "Bullfighting", "Samba", "Samba", "Samba", "Samba", "Samba", "Samba" and "Samba". The second category is Latin dance, including "rumba", "cha-cha", "samba", "bullfighting", "cowboy dance", and after 1964, a new performance was added to the competition, that is, "group dance". Collective dance is by 8 pairs of contestants, unlimited steps in accordance with a main performance, so that the harmonious cooperation, the team changes, cheerful music and skill to achieve perfect unity.