Sports dance is also called "international standard ballroom dance". One of the sports. It is a walking duet competition with men and women as partners. There are two events and ten kinds of dances. Modern dance groups include waltz, Viennese waltz, tango, foxtrot and quickstep, while Latin dance groups include rumba, cha-cha, samba, cowboy and bullfighting.

Every dance has its own steps and styles. According to the music and movement requirements of various dances, combine them into their own complete sets of movements.

Sports dance is a new major, including modern dance and Latin dance. For those who are enrolled by the state, cultural courses take the national unified college entrance examination, and professional courses need to take the professional examinations organized by the school.

Sports dance can apply for several schools at the same time, and students are suitable for teaching, training, guidance, training and management in ordinary universities, middle schools, fitness clubs, cultural (art) museums, mass organizations and scientific research units.

In order to cultivate excellent sports dance talents and meet the social demand for sports dance professionals, major professional colleges and universities in China have set up sports dance majors to recruit art candidates who graduated from high school to enter universities for further study. This provides a new way for a large number of candidates to enter colleges and universities through the art examination.

At present, Qingdao Oriental Beauty Model Art School is a well-known school engaged in sports dance professional training. There are many colleges and universities that recruit sports dance candidates, including Beijing Sport University, Guangdong Ocean University, Guangzhou Sport University, South China Normal University, Shandong Normal University and Shanghai Sport University.

Sports dance in general schools is not difficult, unless students who enroll in this major are more difficult to learn and want to learn something simple, similar to square dance, usually cha-cha, tango and the like.