Dancing is something that is an escape from reality and you can be you no matter where you are as long as you have a soul of a dancer. Dancing isn’t just a hobby its a passion that is developed. People who become professional dancers are never necessarily the best dancers. There is thousands of dancers spread throughout the globe. There are so many dancers that are better than so called professionals they just don’t have a degree in dancing and they know just as much information. It’s not about the money for dancers. It’s about doing what you love every day and making a career out of it. Most professional dancers make 34,424 a year. However this money means nothing if your not doing it for the right reasons. There are over 200 types of dances that are danced from all over the world. Different types of dances are:
Acro dance
Acro dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance with aerobatic elements. it is a amateur competitive dance style. it is used in professional dance theater and in contemporary dance style. This dance style is really unique due to the amount of flexibility that is used. Acrobatic dance emerged in the united states and Canada in the early 1900s as one of the types of dance performed in vaudeville. Although individual dance and acrobatic acts had been performed in vaudeville for several decades prior to 1900, it was not until the early 1900s that it became popular to perform acts that combined dance and acrobatic movements.
Break Dancing
It is an athletic style of street dance. Break dancing mainly consists of toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes. Break dancing is typically the next step to hip hop. A dancer dances this style is called a b-boy or b-girl. It takes a lot of practice to master the part of break dancing. Most of the requirements are you have to be string, well balanced and patience with learning the new style. Many elements of break dancing can be seen in other antecedent cultures prior to the 1970s. B-boy pioneers Richard “crazy legs” Colon and Kenneth “Ken Swift” Gabbert, both of rock steady crew, site James Brown and Kung Fu films and influences. Many of the acrobatic moves, such as the flare, show clear connections to gymnastics. In the 1877 book ‘Rob Roy on the Baltic’ John MacGregor describes something near Norrkoping a ‘…young man quite alone, who was practicing over and over the most inexplicable leap in the air…he swung himself up, and then round on his hand for a point, when his upper leg described a great circle…’. However, it was not until the 1970s that b-boying developed as a defined dance style in the United States. There is also evidence of this style of dancing in Kaduna, Nigeria in 1959.
Contemporary dance
contemporary dance tends to combine the strong but controlled leg work of ballet with modern that stresses on torso. You also do contract-release, floor work, fall and recovery and improve. unpredictable changes of speed, rhythm, and direction are often used. Most of the music used for the dance is very elegant and slow. Merce Cunningham is considered to be the first choreographer to develop an independent attitude towards modern dance and defy the ideas that were established by it. In 1944 Cunningham accompanied his dance with music by John Cage who observed the Cunningham’s dance. As in abstract painting, it is assumed that an element is in and of itself expressive; what is communicates is in large part determined by the observer themselves. Cunningham formed the Merce Cunningham dance comoany in 1653 and went on to craete more than one hundred and fiftey works
Disco dance
Disco is a musical style. The disco sound has many components, a four on the floor beat, an eighth note or 16th note hi hat pattern with an open high hat on the off beat, and a prominent, syncopated bass line. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, and electric rhythm guitars create the background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Most disco songs use electronic synthesizers. Side to side movements are a basic element of disco dance. Hand and shoulder movements, such as revolving the hands and arms, and tilting shoulders from side to side, are also some basic steps. Another basic disco dance step is the forward and backward movement, complemented by arm and shoulder movements. While musicologist may argue about exactly what the first disco album was, they universally argue that one of the pioneers with the name Tom Moulton, a man who loved dancing in clubs like the garage in New York city during the mid 1970s. Crowds would gather there, dancing in loose improvisation with each other to popular songs of the day.
Electro Dance
Electro dance is a frenetic and quirky form of street dance typically performed to electro house music. It is based on, although is not limited to, a blend of different dance styles, such as industrial dance, Moroccan chaabi, disco, vogue, wacking, hip-hop and freehand glowsticking. Electro dance is predominantly about arm movement, taking basic elements from glowsticking such as the concept of freehand, the figure 8 and the idea of the leading hand, while staying very much in a disco taste, by amplifying points and poses as a main aspect to this style. Down below electro dancers tend to use their hips, knees and feet to gently shuffle across the floor to the beat of the music. It started in the 2000s and originated from the southern suburbs of Paris, France, mainly the metropolis night clubs and has grown around the world.
Foxtrot
The Foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It is danced to big band music. the dance is similar in looks to waltz, although the rhythm is in a 4/4 time signature instead of 3/4. Developed in the 1910s, the foxtrot reached its height of popularity in the 1930s and remains practiced today. The dance was premiered in 1914, quickly catching the eye of the husband and wife duo Vernon and Irene castle , who lent the dance its signature grace and style. The origin of the name of the dance is unclear, although one theory is that it took its name from its popularizer, the vaudeville actor Harry Fox.
Galliard
As a dance, the Galliard was definitely not one to be improvised. It had dancers combining patterns of steps which occupy one or more measures of music. In one measure, a Galliard typically has five steps; in French such a basic step is called a cinq pas and in Italy, cinque passi. This is sometimes written in English sources as sinkapace. These steps are: right, left, right, left, cadence. The Galliard was a form of Renaissance music popular all over Europe in the 16th century. It is mentioned in dance manuals from England, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy.
In conclusion there is so many different kinds of dances that started with different kinds of cultures. It is mainly confused that there are only 6 different dances when in reality there are so much more. They are all in there own way very unique and beautiful they should all be viewed the same way.