Sports dance, also known as international standard dance, can be divided into three categories: Latin dance, modern dance and social dance. The three dances include seventeen dances: 1, and the Latin dance includes five dances: rumba, cha cha cha, cowboy, samba and bullfighting. Modern dance includes five kinds of dances: waltz, tango, trot, foxtrot and Viennese waltz. 3. Ballroom dancing includes seven kinds of dances, including blues (slow fourth), waltz (slow three), Viennese waltz (fast third), fast fourth (divided into Nanjing minuet, Hunan fast fourth and Beijing flat fourth), rumba, tango and jitterbug, and seventeen kinds of dances. In recent years, group dance has been added, with six or eight couples dancing Latin dance or modern dance collectively, jumping out of various unpredictable formations. Since last year, Salsa dance, belly dance, hip hop dance, Argentine tango, solo Latin dance and solo modern dance have been added. Our textbook mainly introduces Latin dance and modern dance.
Second, the functional classification of sports dance
According to the functional classification of sports dance, it can be divided into competitive sports dance and mass sports dance. Social dance belongs to mass sports dance, while Latin dance and modern dance belong to competitive sports dance.
The action characteristics of sports dance are very common and close to people's lives. Self-entertainment is the most fundamental feature of mass sports dance. The masses need dancing, mainly for entertainment. Without entertainment, mass dance would not exist. Mass sports dance is random, and the uneven educational level of participants also leads to irregular mass sports dance. The purpose of mass sports dance is to exercise, entertain, communicate with people, shape bodybuilding, and cultivate manners and temperament. Therefore, ballroom dancing has low requirements for dancers and low entry threshold. People can dance ballroom dancing, regardless of their height, size and age. As far as I know, there are 90-year-old dancers in the ballroom dancing crowd. Social dance pays more attention to popularization and popularization. From this perspective, it emphasizes relatively little technical skills and basic skills. Most of the people who dance the national standard dance are unadorned steps, holding their hands casually, and even many people are not vertical, because this part of the crowd only pursues the smoothness of the steps and the freshness of the patterns, and is completely immersed in the mood of self-entertainment, as long as they have fun. According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 800,000 people dancing the national standard dance in Beijing. Almost half of people have no clear purpose at first. Some danced ballroom dancing under the persuasion of friends, neighbors and colleagues, while others danced ballroom dancing in their spare time to kill time. In the process of dancing, they gradually tasted the sweetness. They are healthy, cheerful, strong and handsome, and their manners and temperament have improved. They also made some new friends, and some people learned to appreciate them.
Latin dance and modern dance belong to competitive sports dance, aiming at competition and performance. Competitive sports dance is divided into professional group, amateur group, professional college group, ordinary college group, children group, juvenile group, youth group, mature group and evergreen group. Due to the wide audience of ballroom dancing, the Royal British Dance Association organized European and American dance experts to beautify, standardize and standardize these dances, establish international standard dances and formulate competition rules. At the end of May every year, a world-class international standard dance competition is held in Dianchi Lake, England. Because international standard dance has obvious characteristics of sports skills, from 65438 to 0964, many countries renamed international standard dance as "sports dance" and brought it into the category of sports competition, in order to get the support and investment of the government, and set up various sports dance organizations one after another. The dance steps of competitive sports dance are standardized and rich, delicate and rigorous. There are strict rules in clothing, going up and down, saluting, dance music selection and many other aspects.