Sports dance, also known as the international standard dance, according to the content division can be divided into three major categories: Latin dance, modern dance, social dance. The three categories of dance and contains seventeen kinds of dance: 1, Latin dance, including rumba, cha-cha-cha, cowboy, samba, bullfighting five kinds of dance. 2, modern dance, including waltz, tango, quick step, foxtrot, Vienna waltz five kinds of dance. 3, social dance, including the blues (slow four), waltz (slow three), Vienna waltz (fast three), fast four (also divided into the nanjing small pull dance, hunan fast four and beijing flat four), rumba, Tango, Jitterbug seven kinds of dance, **** seventeen kinds of dance. In recent years, group dances have been added, with six or eight pairs of players dancing Latin or Modern collectively in a variety of unpredictable formations. Since last year there has been an addition of Salsa, Belly Dance, Fashion Street Dance, Argentine Tango, Single Latin Dance, Single Modern Dance. Our textbook focuses on the two parts of Latin and Modern dance.
Two, the functional classification of sports dance
According to the functional classification of sports dance, it can be divided into competitive sports dance and popular sports dance. Social dance belongs to popular sports dance, Latin dance and modern dance belong to competitive sports dance.
The movement characteristics of sports dance is a very common and close to the people's life. Self-entertainment is the most fundamental characteristic of mass sports dance. The masses need dance, mainly for entertainment, leaving entertainment as the fundamental, popular dance does not exist. Popular sports dance has randomness, due to the uneven cultural level of the participants also caused the irregularity of popular sports dance. The purpose of popular sports dance is to exercise the body, amusement, interpersonal communication, shaping the body shape and cultivating the style and temperament. Therefore, the social dance is not high on the requirements of the dancers, the door to enter the bar is very low, no matter short or tall, fat or thin, high or low age can dance social dance, according to the author's knowledge, dance social dance crowd has more than ninety years old dance old people. Fellowship dance focuses more on popularity, popularity, from this point of view, it emphasizes technical skills and basic skills relatively less. Most of the people who dance ballroom dance are unadorned dance steps, casual holding posture, and even many people are not vertical body posture, because this part of the crowd only pursues the smoothness of the dance steps and the freshness of the pattern, and completely indulges in the self-indulgence in the mood of self-entertainment, as long as the joy of playing is happy enough. According to incomplete statistics in Beijing, there are nearly eight hundred thousand people dancing, almost half of the people did not have any clear purpose at the beginning, some of them are persuaded by friends, neighbors and colleagues to dance, some of them are in order to pass the time in the leisure time to dance, in the process of dancing gradually tasted the sweetness of the body healthy, happy spirit, fit body, style and temperament improved, but also know a number of new friends, some of them also learn to dance. Some new friends, some people also learn to experience the culture and spirit of sports dance, this time and want to improve on the basis of social dance.
Latin dance and modern dance belong to competitive sports dance, the purpose of competitive sports dance is competition and performance. Competitive sports dance is divided into professional group, amateur group, professional colleges and universities group, general college group, children's group, teenager's group, youth group, strong age group, evergreen group and so on. Due to the wide audience of social dance, the Royal Dance Association of England organized European and American dance experts to beautify, standardize and regulate these dances, and created the International Standard Dance, and formulated the rules of the competition, which is held at the end of May every year at the "Black Pool" in England, as a world-wide International Standard Dance Competition. Due to the obvious characteristics of the international standard dance as a sports competition, many countries have changed the name of the international standard dance to "sports dance" since 1964, putting it into the category of sports competition, in order to get government support and investment, and have set up a variety of sports dance organizations one after another. Competitive sports dance steps are standardized and rich, delicate and rigorous. In clothing, up and down, salute, the choice of dance music and many other aspects have strict regulations.