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Dance in Theater: Genres and Styles
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Musical Theater Dance
A dance style that encompasses a wide range of styles, often used in Broadway shows and involves storytelling through dance.
Hip Hop Dance
A street dance style primarily performed to hip hop music and which has evolved as part of hip hop culture.
Modern Dance
A dance style that rejects the limitations of classical ballet and favors movement deriving from the expression of inner feelings.
Bharatanatyam
A classical Indian dance form that's known for its fixed upper torso, bent legs, and sophisticated gestures.
Belly Dancing
A Western name for a traditional Middle Eastern dance, especially raqs sharqi, which is characterized by complex movements of the torso.
Breakdancing
An athletic style of street dance that includes intricate body movements, coordination, style, and aesthetics.
Kabuki Dance
A classical Japanese dance-drama known for the stylization of its drama, the elaborate makeup worn by some of its performers, and for its all-male casts.
Irish Dance
Traditional Irish dance characterized by a rigid upper body and intricate footwork.
Krump
A street dance popularized in the United States that is characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement.
Aerial Dance
A form of modern dance that is performed in the air, often on apparatus such as silk fabrics, ropes, hoops, or trapeze.
Contemporary Dance
A style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet.
Folk Dance
A group of dances that are traditionally passed through generations or which are bounded by ethnicity or region.
Jazz Dance
A dance genre that originated in the African-American communities and showcases a performer's individual style and originality.
Lyrical Dance
A dance style that combines elements of ballet with modern dance techniques and is often used to convey a story or express strong emotions.
Swing Dance
A group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1940s, with the best known of these dances being the Lindy Hop.
Tap Dance
A dance in which the rhythm is sounded out by the clicking taps on the heels and toes of a dancer's shoes.
Ballet
A classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement and by elaborate formal gestures, steps, and poses.
Flamenco
A form of Spanish dance and music characterized by its powerful yet graceful execution, as well as its intricate hand and footwork.
Ballroom Dance
A type of social dance which is performed by couples and follows prescribed steps.
Tango
A passionate dance of Argentinian origin known for intricate steps, close contact, and dramatic movements.
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