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Dance in Theater: Genres and Styles

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Musical Theater Dance

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A dance style that encompasses a wide range of styles, often used in Broadway shows and involves storytelling through dance.

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Hip Hop Dance

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A street dance style primarily performed to hip hop music and which has evolved as part of hip hop culture.

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Modern Dance

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A dance style that rejects the limitations of classical ballet and favors movement deriving from the expression of inner feelings.

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Bharatanatyam

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A classical Indian dance form that's known for its fixed upper torso, bent legs, and sophisticated gestures.

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Belly Dancing

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A Western name for a traditional Middle Eastern dance, especially raqs sharqi, which is characterized by complex movements of the torso.

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Breakdancing

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An athletic style of street dance that includes intricate body movements, coordination, style, and aesthetics.

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Kabuki Dance

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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.

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Irish Dance

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Traditional Irish dance characterized by a rigid upper body and intricate footwork.

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Krump

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A street dance popularized in the United States that is characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement.

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Aerial Dance

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A form of modern dance that is performed in the air, often on apparatus such as silk fabrics, ropes, hoops, or trapeze.

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Contemporary Dance

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A style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet.

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Folk Dance

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A group of dances that are traditionally passed through generations or which are bounded by ethnicity or region.

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Jazz Dance

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A dance genre that originated in the African-American communities and showcases a performer's individual style and originality.

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Lyrical Dance

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A dance style that combines elements of ballet with modern dance techniques and is often used to convey a story or express strong emotions.

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Swing Dance

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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.

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Tap Dance

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A dance in which the rhythm is sounded out by the clicking taps on the heels and toes of a dancer's shoes.

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Ballet

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A classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement and by elaborate formal gestures, steps, and poses.

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Flamenco

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A form of Spanish dance and music characterized by its powerful yet graceful execution, as well as its intricate hand and footwork.

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Ballroom Dance

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A type of social dance which is performed by couples and follows prescribed steps.

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Tango

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A passionate dance of Argentinian origin known for intricate steps, close contact, and dramatic movements.

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