Development:
Overseas
In the eleventh and second centuries, these countries in Europe refined and standardized some of the folk dances, and the line became popular in the court of the "court dance", elegant and complicated, formal and pretentious, lost the style of folk dance, which was prevalent only in the court, and was exclusively for the nobles to practice and appreciate, and was the privilege of the nobles. appreciation, is the privilege of the aristocracy.
After the French Revolution, the court was dissolved, and the "court dance" also entered the common society and became a social dance for everyone in the society. In 1768, the first ballroom appeared in Paris. From then on, ballroom dancing became popular in European society, and the ballroom dancing at this time had a strong national flavor, which was called the American school of social dancing.
Because of the national standard dance on the dance posture, dance step requirements are very strict, so the emergence of relatively low requirements of some of the ballroom dance, which maintains the style of the national standard dance of various types of dance, but more casual. Nevertheless, the social dance still has its own requirements, so that it can reflect the style of each type of dance, in order to be free and easy.
Social dance was introduced to several major cities and ports of commerce in China as early as 1924. To the early liberation period, the fifties and sixties, ballroom dancing is still very popular in China, after the Cultural Revolution was suspended, into the eighties, ballroom dancing is again accepted by the general public, but with the world standard dance level has been a big gap. Cotillion, due to the influence of the court dance, its style is: the dance posture is solemn and elegant, the dance step is rigorous and standardized, quite a gentleman, and therefore is called the European school of social dance.
In the early nineteenth century, due to the rise of the United States, the original popular social dance in Europe with the European immigrants to the United States, at the same time, a large number of Latin American immigrants also brought a strong tropical region with the style of folk dance, which come directly from the folk, not affected by the court dance, the form of a more free.
Ancient China
From the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.) to the Wei (220 A.D. - 265 A.D.) and Jin (265 A.D. - 420 A.D.) periods. During the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.), Wei (220 A.D.-265 A.D.), and Jin (265 A.D.-420 A.D.), in order to enliven the atmosphere and to promote friendship, Chinese officials and aristocrats held banquets and invitational dances of a social nature called "Dance for Each Other.
At banquets, the host usually dances first during the banquet, and after the dance, invites another person to continue the dance. After the second person dances, another person is invited to dance, and the cycle continues. The invited person must dance in return, and if the invited person refuses to dance, it is considered very impolite behavior and disrespectful to the inviter. During the Tang Dynasty (618 AD - 907 AD), there was also a popular social dance called "Ta-Ling", which was a customary dance danced by the nobles during their banquets.
The top ten keys to a good ballroom dance:
1. Elegant demeanor comes from an upright posture
2. The display of style shows the pursuit of beauty
3. The premise of tacit cooperation is self-balance
4. The highest skill of the lead is to use the whole body
5. Improving musical training is the way to make the dance charming
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6. "Leap" is the fundamental way to get rid of the "walking" form
7. Sideways technique is the bridge to perfect flow
8. Ideal lifts must eliminate step transitions
9.9. Tilting is a versatile technique
10. Center of gravity shifting technique is "unobtrusive."