Dance terms

Dance terms

Different styles of dance have their own terminology. The following articles contain information on dance terms:


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  • Glossary of partner dance terms — This is a list of dance terms that are not names of dances or types of dances. See List of dances and List of dance style categories for those. This glossary lists terms used in various types of partner dances, leaving out terms of highly evolved …   Wikipedia

  • Dance positions — Dance position is a position of a dancer or a mutual position of a dance couple assumed during a dance. Describing and mastering proper dance positions is an important part of dance technique. In ballet, the term pose is used to describe… …   Wikipedia

  • Dance position — is a position of a dancer or a mutual position of a dance couple assumed during a dance. Describing and mastering proper dance positions is an important part of dance technique.In ballet, the term pose is used to describe stationary dance… …   Wikipedia

  • Dance-pop — Stylistic origins Pop • Dance • Disco • Post disco • Electronic • R B • New Wave Cultural origins Early 1980s Typical instruments Drum machine • Keyboards • Synthesi …   Wikipedia

  • Dance on Broadway — PAL Box art Developer(s) Longtail Studios AiLive Publisher(s) Ubisoft …   Wikipedia

  • dance troupes — in China consist of three kinds of groups: ballets concentrating on an artistic form which originated in the West; companies, such as the Oriental Song and Dance Company (Dongfang gewu tuan), focusing on both Chinese and foreign folk arts of song …   Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

  • Dance Valley — festival, 2009 Dance Valley ( The Woodstock of Dance ) is an annual dance music festival held in the summer in Spaarnwoude, Netherlands. The first edition was in 1995 when 8.000 people attended (and in 2000 90,000 visitors). Dance Valley grew… …   Wikipedia

  • dance — dancingly, adv. /dans, dahns/, v., danced, dancing, n. v.i. 1. to move one s feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, esp. to the accompaniment of music. 2. to leap, skip, etc., as from excitement or emotion; move nimbly or… …   Universalium

  • Dance music — This article is about dance music in general. For a similar genre, see electronic dance music. For its subgenre, see dance pop. Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece… …   Wikipedia

  • dance, Western — Introduction       history of Western dance from ancient times to the present and including the development of ballet, the waltz, and various types of modern dance.       The peoples of the West of Europe and of the countries founded through… …   Universalium

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