What are the dances? Name types of dances

To Express overwhelming emotions and feelings, expectations and hopes, our ancient ancestors used rhythmic ritual dances. With the development of the person and the social environment around him, appeared more different dances, it is becoming more complex and sophisticated. Today, even the experts cannot specify the name of the types of dances - all performed by people for centuries. However dance culture, through the centuries, is actively developing. Based on popular and classic appear new and modern styles and trends.

What is it?

Before you consider what are the different types of dances, let's clarify what it actually is? The short-lived and most difficult of art forms in which the human body and its plastic potential is used to create a unique image – is a dance. It is not possible without the identity of the artist and music. The contractor, starting from the content of the music, builds “picture” of the dance and embodies your vision and sensory perception in motion. This action can be used as a means of social expression and communication, competitive sport and part religious cult, but also as a demonstration art form that constantly evolves and changes. There are all new styles and shapes, different types of dances, the variety of which even the experts puts in “deadlock”.

Appearance

The first of people dancing was a ritual performed by them in the hope of a successful hunt or a bountiful harvest, healing sick or win the war. Over time, the rhythmic movement was subjected to generalization, which was the beginning of the formation of ethnic art direction with each of the peoples of their identities and traditions. the diversity of dance steps came from the major types of human movements-running, walking, jumping, rolling and turns. Over time, there are the following types of folk dances: home (for me) and the executable for show – the iconic and scenic.

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Main areas

Among today's diverse dance styles include the most popular and well-known:

1. Ballet:
   
   ● classic;
   ● a romantic;
   ● modern.
   
   
2. Ethnic (folk) dance, reflecting the essence and rituals, traditions and customs of certain peoples. Among them there are the following groups:
   
   ● "European";
   ● Asian (Eastern);
   ● African;
   ● Latin American.
   
   In each of them there are different types of folk dances: group, individual, pair and others.
   
   
3. History — is a dance popular in the past era and executable today, for example, Bullough, contradance, Polonaise, and others.
   
   
4. Ball, which includes two main programs: European and Latin American. That's the name of the types of dances included in the program latina
   
   ● Jive, also referred to as West coast swing or Lindy;
   ● Rumba;
   ● Samba;
   ● Paso Doble;
   ● cha-cha-cha.
   
   In the standard European program perform the following types of dance:
   
   ● Argentine tango;
   ● the quickstep or fast Foxtrot;
   ● Viennese waltz;
   ● slow waltz in which the trajectory of the dancers, unlike Vienna, it is not restricted and may vary;
   ● Foxtrot, characterized by undulating and slow, smooth and sliding motion.
   
   
5. Dancing.
   
   
6. Modern dances are divided into the popup:
   
   ● in the early to mid-twentieth century;
   ● since the middle of XX and beginning of XXI century:
   - the club
   street.

In this article we will consider in more detail what are the types of dancing in contemporary choreographic art.

The Beginning and the middle of the twentieth century

A Similar division into two steps, not by accident. According to many performers of the last century, dance as an art form was to display the new reality, and not to adhere to “frozen” in the time of old canons ballet schools. At this time there are such choreography, popular today, such as:

1. Free dance.
2. Modern.
3. Buto.
4. Contemporary (contemp).
5. Modern jazz.

Let us Dwell on each of them, as they had a great influence on the formation and development of many styles and directions of modern dance.

Free dance

It is primarily the particular worldview of the artist, formed under the influence of Nietzsche's ideas. The executor, denying the canonical rules of ballet choreography, sought to combine dance and real life, manifesting itself as the spirit of unfettered creativity. It is on the basis of free style was born and developed areas such as modern and Butoh, jazz, modern and contemp.

Modern

Arose early in the century, this dance is very popular and is one of the leading Western dance school. As well as free dance, modern ballet denies any norms and seeks to embody a variety of forms, using new and original methods. It is characterized semantic content, a wide range of motions, high jumps and flexibility, unusual for a ballet choreography “broken” posture and movements, a variety of twisting.

Contemporary dance

It is reasonably possible to say that such popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century styles, as a free and modern dance, formed the basis for the formation of such areas as contemporary (contemp). This dance, as an art form, offers the dancer through various dance styles as fully as possible to demonstrate in the improvisation of all inner emotions and resources.

Modern jazz

The Main feature of this trend is a combination of jazz improvisation and rhythms of energy, coordination, and working with the body and breath of the musician of modernity, and movements inherent in the classical ballet school. Thus, the body of the dancer, the jazz of modernity becomes another musical instrument having a melody by means of plasticity of the body.

Butoh

This is one of the youngest dance techniques introduced in the fifties of the XX century in Japan. Butoh, despite the relatively long existence and today remains for the people of the Western world the most difficult to understand. It is based on cultural, philosophical, religious and aesthetic values of the Country of the rising sun. This dance seeks to show the mundane everyday life of an ordinary person, but also to understand and demonstrate the body in space and time.

Modern dance of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century

The diversity of modern dance can, of course, conventionally, be divided into two large groups:

• Street;
• Club.

What is considered a street, and which club? How do they differ? Let's deal.

Street dance

Hip hop and Krump, popping and locking, break dance and C-walk – all the name types of dance, “born” not on stages and in dance studios and on the streets and in the courtyards of big cities, discos and clubs. most of them are based on hip-hop. Street style is not limited by any form, and feel free to improvise and experiment, creating individual and unique pattern of movements, as well as interact with other dancers and with the audience. In “pure” the form they occur very rarely, and for the most part began to be fulfilled in clubs, not on the streets, which often fall into the category of club. Here are the most popular and common areas:

• New-style (NewStyle).
• Krump – acronym for Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise, meaning “Empire of the Absolute Spiritual Power of Praise”.
• Locking (Locking).
• Popping (Popping).
• LA-Style.
• Crip walk (C-walk).
• R&B.
• Breakdance.
• Hip-hop (Hip-Hop).

Club dance

It is temperamental, bright and a wonderful blend of various contemporary styles allowing you to Express yourself in movement. All, as they say, “hearing” the name of the dances of this type:

• Tecktonik or electro dance.
• Jazz Funk (jazz-funk).
• House (house).
• Jumpstyle (jumpstyle).
• Melbourne shuffle (shuffle).
• Waacking (waacking).
• Go-Go (club Gow).
• Square dance (square dancing).
• DnBstep.
• Ragga (ragga) and many others.

It is Impossible to list all types of dances. List of names of modern styles and trends constantly changing and updated. Today dancing is not only the plastic arts but also a fairly common sport.

Dancing

If in earlier times the dance was seen only as an art form, the complexity of the technical and choreographic demands for performance led to the need for good physical shape those who do it. Today the main types of sports dance – is, first of all, ball. Their peculiarity is the fulfillment partners certain mandatory movements and shapes under the preset music. Evaluate the competition of ballroom sport dances consist of three parts: compulsory, original and free.

Over time there are new musical and choreographic styles and trends. And now, these modern types of dance sport as a break or lock, jumpstyle or pole dance (pole dancing), attract more fans from different age groups. To compete in these areas the athletes are required not only great choreography and physical preparation. Those who are not seeking to win international competitions and trying to keep my body in good shape, you can recommend the fitness classes in various dance techniques. Twerk, high heels, go-go, strip-plastic, belly dance, Zumba, sexy R&B, ragga, booty dance – here are the most popular among the fair sex, types of dances. Girls are attracted to them not only the possibility to adjust the figure, but also improve the plasticity and to increase their self-esteem.