How many types of ballroom dances are there?

Ballroom dance is divided into the first type of modern dance and the second type of Latin dance:

1. The first type of modern dance

1. Waltz (Waltz)

2. Tango

3. Foxtrot

4. Quick Step

5 , Viennese Waltz

6. Blues

2. The second type of Latin dance

1. Rumba

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2. Cha Cha Cha

3. Samba

4. Paso Doble

5 , Jive

The Origin of Ballroom Dance

It originated in Europe and evolved on the basis of ancient folk dances. Since the 16th and 17th centuries, ballroom dancing has become a common social activity in European countries, so it is called the "world language". After the 1920s, ballroom dancing became popular all over the world, so it was also called "international dance".

As early as 1924, ballroom dancing was introduced to several major cities and treaty ports in China at that time. In the early years of liberation, in the 1950s and 1960s, ballroom dancing was still very popular in China. After the Cultural Revolution was suspended, and in the 1980s, ballroom dancing was once again accepted by the masses, but the level of ballroom dancing has greatly differed from that of world ballroom dancing. gap. Due to the influence of court dance, the style of social dance is: solemn and elegant dance postures, strict and standardized dance steps, and quite gentlemanly, so it is called the social dance of the European school.