History of the

dancing directions

Dance came to us from an extreme antiquity. Each people had at all times dances. Probably, the very first people on the earth felt requirement together after successful hunting to have fun at a fire or to dance ritual dance. And as musical instruments for support of the first dances on the earth used bludgeons, armors of ancient turtles and stones. So, possibly, there were first rhythms on the earth, created by the person music and together with it dance so was born. Dance is an art of plastic and rhythmic movements of a body. In our rough and prompt century there were most various dancing directions. At first danced gavottes, minuets. Then waltzes, Poles, mazourkas. At the beginning of the XX century a Charleston, foxtrots, a tango, and behind them – rock N – рол, a twist, шейк, a break came

History of the dancing directions

Types of dance.

The ballet can tell the story, express the emotions reflecting a piece of music or simply a choreography and a number of movements. At the heart of a classical form of dance, however, there is a little deception. The reality tells us, the ballet physically cruel art, poses his dancers in movements unnaturally for a human body. The ballet demands will power, self-return.

Well executed ballet, immerses the audience in the imagination world where dancers throw down a gravitation challenge when they carry out a jump, keeping balance during dizzy movements, slide lengthways on tiptoe and rise in air, as though lungs, as a plumelet. The ballet is graceful also the natural. Though it can include improbable formalities and difficulties, the ballet audience only realizes the ability to personify or cause emotion — for anger to jealousy of love — simply though movements and lines of a body of dancers submit them. This illusory world of the imagination which causes delight of the audience throughout centuries.

Ballet

Ballroom Dancing is when a couple performs any of the various social dances that follow a pattern of predictable steps. Examples of these dances are the tango, waltz, fox trot and quick step. It has an immensely amplified popularity spreading across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Ballroom dancing has had a relatively short but interesting history and has evolved from a recreational activity to a worldwide sporting event.

Ballroom dancing originated in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in which these dances, such as the waltz, were performed by the upper and elite classes of society in balls and parties. During the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, it became a trend among the working and middle class where they would go to gatherings and events in public dance halls. In the early 1920s, ballroom dancing competitions started to boom that in 1924, an organization was formed called the Ballroom Branch of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. The objective of this organization was to standardize and formalize ballroom dancing techniques, sets of steps and music to which it was danced to. Also, all ballroom dances are performed by only two people, usually a man and a woman.

Ballroom dance.

Ballroom dances - the group of pair dances having national sources and executed on evenings, balls, competitions which are carried out in rooms laid, as a rule, by a parquet, in special dancing footwear. From a huge variety both elite (historical and household), and national dances the dances which are characterizing by 2 signs got to group of the ball: all ballroom dances are steam rooms; pair is made by the man and the woman dancing with observance of physical contact.

Won in all layers of the European society. At the word "waltz" it is necessary to take off a hat, as a waltz – the king of dances. In recent times it was danced by the whole world. It was the main dance at dancing-parties. Unfortunately, the majority of modern teenagers aren't able to dance a waltz. But from it it becomes worse not. Waltzes were written by many composers: Mozart, Chopin, Glinka, Tchaikovsky. And Johann Strauss composed 447 waltzes! Not gift him call «the king of waltzes». The waltz in Europe was born. At first it was danced by simple people in villages. The gentleman, having embraced the lady for a waist, turned it under music. In the different countries dance was called differently. In Austria - a lendler, in France - volt. At the time of Louis X ІІІ volt it was forbidden, as too "courageous" dance. But no ban worked. Dance extended everywhere. In XV ІІІ an eyelid the waltz is danced by all Europe. Hobby for a waltz compared to cholera epidemic. The waltz which has lived of an eyelid, but forever remained young and brilliant. It is one of few brilliant dances who kept almost whole century superiority in all dance halls of the world. Only in the XX century with it began to compete a tango and a foxtrot. But a waltz call dance of lovers. In what a secret of this dance? Perhaps, in what it synthesizes elements of various European dances. But the main element "rotation", but a waltz sounded not only in dance halls. On a ballet scene there live choreographic compositions «The swan lake», "Nutcracker", «The sleeping beauty». Waltzes from the opera "War and peace", "Eugene Onegin". Our eternal waltz. Because the waltz is a waltz.

Waltz

Year of establishment: 1910 Tango – modern ball dance. “The Gipsy tango”, “an Andalusian tango”, a Creole tango”

and popular“ the Argentina tango”, extended in the 1910th years around the world as salonny and variety dance are known. The excessive proximity dancing shocked many years with frank sensuality, but the world success of a tango was already predetermined.

The tango - dance passionate and sensual, temperamental and drama, but it is always painted by grief. Movements of a tango express the most extreme feelings and explosive passion. Unlike regularly repeating rhythm of a waltz, a tango includes pauses and rhythm change – acceleration, delay. Sudden changes of movement alternate with slow movements, creating the special, expressional atmosphere of dance. The tango accurately divides the man and the woman: they execute different steps, and the slightest gesture here is especially important. In dance there is something that it is possible to consider not simply as the scheme, and practically the scenario, where at the man and at the woman – the role. The tango transfers the special world of strong feelings. No wonder that the tango underlay fine films and quite good literature that a tango not only dance, it still play and sing.

Tango

Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance — "modern jazz dance" — emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance. Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of these two distinct origins. The equipment of the modern jazz is widely used practically in all modern dances.

Jazz dance

Disco Dance.Disco dance is a style of dance highly dependant on disco music. Disco music consists of strong, rising vocals over a steady beat and bass line. If you are familiar with disco dance, you probably remember performers and bands such as Donna Summer, Amanda Lear, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, Chic, and The Jacksons. During the 1970's, disco clubs were abundant and alive with disco dancers. Disco Dance CharacteristicsDisco dance is moving to music in your own way, while wearing disco-inspired clothing. Disco consists of steps and moves performed in time to the beat of disco music. Some common elements of disco dance include side stepping in between bigger moves, raising your arms overhead, large hip and pelvic movements, and twisting your hands in time to the beat. A few common disco dance steps include pivot turns, foot stamps, and shoulder rocks.

Samba Developed in Brazil during the 19th century, the Samba is considered the

dance of celebration and joy at Carnival celebrations in Rio. Lively and rhythmical, there are many types of Samba dances, just like there are many types of Samba music. Ballroom partner Samba, one of the popular Latin dances in ballroom competitions, is made up of many different South American dances mixed into one. In Brazil, a Samba dancer is known as a Sambista.

Before Samba became a ballroom dance style, there were many styles of partner dances as well as solo Samba dances. As with the solo Samba, partner ballroom Samba has a quick beat that requires fast footwork. Over the years, the Samba has incorporated elaborate tricks, turns, and acrobatic feats into its basic set of figures. The main characteristics of the Samba are rapid steps taken on quarter beats and a rocking, swaying motion of the dancers.

Flamenco is a folk art and culture from Spain. It is particular to the province of Andalusia in Spain. Historically, it has always been the musical outlet of the poor and oppressed. It passed on by oral tradition which the individual artist uses as the basis for his own variations.

Flamenco is a tripartite art, involving singing, dance and the guitar simultaneously - as well as rhytmic punctuation (by hand-claps and other methods) that is considered an art form. There are hundreds of different types of pieces within flamenco, which have generic names such as seguiriyas, soleares, alegrías, malagueñas, fandangos, zapateado, rondeña, etc. They are defined by characteristic melodic, rhytmic, and harmonic structures; each has a characteristic mood and many are regional variants of essentially similar forms.

Flamenco