Ballroom dance

• Ballroom dances


  Partner dances, enjoyed socially, and competitively worldwide. Originated in the western world.
• Categories of ballroom dance

  International latin and international standard
• History of ballroom dance

  The word ballroom denotes a room we are balls are held which is a type of form of social dance. They are important events in the days before radio, television, and Internet.
• Balle - Latin from ‘ballare’ Meaning To DANCE
• The figures in the standard ballroom dances has now been standardize and categorized into various levels for teaching in competition with internationally agreed vocabularies, techniques, rythm, and tempos.
• Standard dances

  danced socially and in dance sport competition

  • modern waltz
  • Tango
  • Viennese waltz
  • Slow foxtrot
  • quickstep
• Latin-American dances

  • samba
  • Rumba
  • Cha cha
  • Jive (north america)
  • Paso doble (europe)
• Modern waltz


  A very slow and elegant dance. The main technique is rise and fall throughout
• Tango


  A very dramatic dance with lots of sharp movements that is danced with bent knees the entire time
• Viennese waltz 


  The first ballroom dance performed in the closed hold or “waltz position”
• Slow foxtrot


  A smooth dance in which dancers make long flowing movement across the floor
• Quick step


  All about the movie energetically across the floor with hops, skips and flicks
• Samba


  A Latin American dance that is famous as a dance and musical genre that originated from the coast of Africa and of Brazil
• Rumba


  The slowest dance in the international Latin style, and its sensual character is meant to emphasize hip and body actions
• Cha cha


  Vybrant, flamboyant and playful dance
• Jive


  The quickest dance in the style and has lots of kicks
• Paso doble


  One of the liveliest ballroom dances, originating in southern France. It is modeled after the sound, drama and movement of the Spanish bullfight