What are ballet, folk dance, classical dance and jazz dance?

Classical dance is on the basis of traditional folk dance, through generations of professional workers to refine, organize, process, create, and after a long period of artistic practice of the test, passed down is considered to be a certain paradigm of significance and classical style characteristics of the dance. Generally speaking, classical dance has a rigorous program, standardized movements and more advanced skills, reflecting the "shape, God, strength, rhythm" of the high degree of integration.

Ballet?

European classical dance, from the French ballet translation. Ballet is a kind of anaerobic exercise, with the basic movements of ballet as training content, its fitness strength is the amount of general fitness sports can not be compared, open, jump, straight, standing is the four elements of ballet, with the contraction of muscle fibers, so that all parts of the body to develop balanced, beautiful posture, while in the melodious music accompaniment, so that the beauty of the intuitive and subtle show.

Folk Dance

Generally refers to the dance forms that are produced and circulated in folklore, subject to the constraints of folk culture, improvised, but relatively stable in style, and with the main function of self-entertainment. Folk dance is free, vivid, lively, can be easier than pure dance to show more life content, and easy to understand, so very much for the majority of people in our country love. In addition to the clever use of props, skills combined, such as fans, handkerchiefs, long silk, tambourine, single drum, flower stick, lanterns, umbrellas, etc., greatly strengthen the artistic expression of the dance, making the dance movement more rich and beautiful, colorful.

Modern dance

is a kind of dance faction opposite to classical ballet that emerged in the West at the beginning of the 20th century. It advocates to get rid of the constraints of classical ballet's overly rigid movement program, and to freely express people's true feelings through dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement. Therefore, the movements in dance are usually derived from the basic actions of daily life, such as walking, running, jumping, spinning, squatting, and sliding, etc.

Modern Dance

The modern dance is the first dance to be produced in the United States.

Tap dance

Tap dance (English: tap dance) has the meaning of tapping and knocking, is a modern dance style. It was formed in the United States in the 1920s. At that time, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their respective folk dances to the United States, and gradually fused to form a new dance form. This form of dance is more open and free without a lot of formalization. Instead of focusing on the body's dance posture, dancers focus on the intricate techniques of toe-tapping and heel-striking rhythms.

Jazz dance

Jazz dance is a kind of rapid and dynamic rhythmic dance, is a kind of outgoing dance, unlike the classical ballet or modern dance expressed a kind of introverted dance. Jazz dance absorbs the elements and techniques of ballet, modern dance, street dance and Latin dance, sending the hips, twisting the waist, and twisting the body in a wave shape, to express a more powerful and energetic style.