Types of Dance

Cards (20)

  • Enumerate the type of dances
    Ballroom Dance
    Ballet
    Tap Dance
    Jazz
    Hip-hop
  • It was the popular dance before the ballroom dance.


    The court dance or the social dance
  • The court dance/social dance featured what?
    dances including the minuet and the waltz
  • The waltz remained?
    popular at the beginning of the twentieth century
  • The new century brought a new dance form called?
    Ballroom dance
  • During the first three decades of the century, many new dances were introduced and among them that are still danced in the 21st centrury are the?
    Argentine tango, introduced in the US in 1913
    American fox trot, first danced in 1914
  • dancing helps with
    weight loss, posture,coordination, flexibility, and balance.
  • Court banquets during Renaissance Italy featured a range of what? Andt theses performances marked the beginning of?
    a range of entertainment including dances performed between food courses in 1489.
    ballet
  • French King louis the XIV danced the role of which god?
    Apollo, the god of sun
  • Because of French King Louis the XIV's performance, he was known as?
    the SUN KING
  • French King Louis the XIV established what school?
    Academie Royale de Danse, the world's first ballet school.
  • The history of tap dance dates back to which era?
    The slaves era in the UNITED STATES.
  • Enslaved Africans included people from? 

    West Africa who danced gioube, stepping dances used in rekigious and secular dance forms.
  • The slaves style in the eighteenth centurywas blended by
    Irish jig and other stepping dances done by European immigrants
  • which era does the roots of jazz come from?
    Also the slaves era and dances brought from Africa
  • Jazz vs Tap dance
    jazz involves movements of more than just feet
  • During the 1930's couples did new dances like the?
    jitterbug to lively jazz music
  • it is the style known for choreographing theatrical productions and movies
    Moden Jazz
  • Hip hop is

    a style of movement characterized by bounces and rocks, executed ti Hip-hop music.
  • Historical roots of hip hop lie in?
    African-American culture , having emerged in Black communities living in the 1970's in New York.