Types Of Dance

 

 

There are many different types of dance like jazz, tap, modern, ballet, lyrical, and more.
Jazz dancing is cheerful and bodily and it characterizes the liberty of the individual.

Jazz also expresses pain, oppression, irony, and it also opens up the right to a solo.
Tap dancing is a style of American theatrical dance.  Some steps are brush, flap, shuffle, ball change and cramp roll.

Ballet is "the geometrical groupings of people dancing together, accompanied by the varied harmony of several instruments."
Modern dancing is the name given to a dance tradition that arose as a reaction to ballet.

 

Lyrical dance is a blend of ballet, modern, and jazz.  It interprets music and words.
Dancers use the technique of ballet, the rhythms of jazz and emotions or feelings of modern dancing to create a lyrical dance.

 

 

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