Aquino, Jose Lois M.

FWDANCE

What is dance?

to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, esp.

to the accompaniment of music.

What is dancesport?

Dancesport denotes competitive ballroom dancing, as contrasted to social or exhibition

dancing. The name was invented to help competitive ballroom dancing gain Olympic
recognition. Dancesport events are sanctioned and regulated by dancesport organizations. ...

Standard category

1. Waltz

Waltz is one of the five dances in the Standard (or Modern) category of the International
Style ballroom dances. It was previously referred to as Slow Waltz or English Waltz.

It is a waltz dance and danced to slow, preferably 28-30 bars per minute (84-90 beats per
minute), waltz music. Preferably, the 1st beat of a measure to be accented. Waltz music is in
3/4 time.

2. Tango

Ballroom Tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots
by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive (a.k.a dancesport) influences into
the style and execution of the dance.
The present day ballroom tango is divided into two disciplines: American
Style and International Style. Both styles are enjoyed as social and competitive dances, but the
International version is more globally accepted as a competitive style. Both styles share a closed
dance position, but the American style allows its practitioners to separate from closed position to
execute open moves, like underarm turns, alternate hand holds, dancing apart, and side-by-side
choreography.

3. Viennese Waltz

Viennese Waltz (German: Wiener Walzer) is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three
different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several
versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the
music of Viennese Waltz.
 What is now called the Viennese waltz is the original form of the waltz. It was the first
ballroom dance performed in the closed hold or "waltz" position. The dance that is popularly
known as the waltz is actually the English or slow waltz, danced at approximately 90 beats per
minute with 3 beats to the bar (the international standard of 30 measures per minute), while the
Viennese Waltz is danced at about 180 beats (58-60 measures) a minute. To this day however, in
Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, and France, the words Walzer (German for
"waltz"), vals (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish for "waltz"), and valse (French for "waltz") still
implicitly refer to the original dance and not the slow waltz.

4. Foxtrot

The exact origin of the name of the dance is unclear, although one theory often cited is
that took its name from its inventor, the vaudeville actor Harry Fox. The dance was premiered in
1914, quickly catching the eye of the talented husband and wife duo Vernon and Irene Castle,
who lent the dance its signature grace and style.

5. Quickstep

Quickstep is an International Style ballroom dance that follows a 4/4 time beat, at about
50 bars per minute. An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis
Prima's Sing, Sing, Sing. From its early beginning as a faster Foxtrot, the Quickstep has become
quite distinctive. It is danced to the fastest tempo of the ballroom dances.
Latin Category
1. Cha-cha-cha

The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin It is danced to
the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953.
This rhythm was developed from the danzón by a syncopation of the fourth beat. The name
isonomatopoeic, derived from the rhythm of the güiro (scraper) and the shuffling of the dancers'
feet.

2. Samba

As a ballroom dance, the samba is a partner dance. Ballroom samba, like other ballroom
dances, is somewhat disconnected from the origins and evolution of the music and dance that
gives it its name. It is a form adapted for its suitability as a partner dance. The dance movements,
which do not change depending on the style of samba music being played, borrows some
movements from Afro-Brazilian traditional dances such those used in candomblé rituals and the
chamadas of capoeira angola.
 3. Rumba

Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.

First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre
of Afro-Cuban music. There are several styles of this rumba, the most common being
the guaguancó.

Second, it refers to one of the ballroom dances which occurs in social dance and in
international competitions. In this sense, rumba is the slowest of the five competitive
International Latin dances: thepaso doble, the samba, the cha-cha-cha and the jive being the
others. This ballroom rumba was also danced in Cuba to a rhythm they call the bolero-son; the
international style was derived from studies of dance in Cuba in the pre-revolutionary period.

4. Pasodoble

Pasodoble (literal meaning in Spanish: double-step) is a typical Spanish march-

like musical style as well as the corresponding dance style danced by a couple. It is the type of
music typically played in bullfights during the bullfighters' entrance to the ring (paseo) or during
the passes (faena) just before the kill. It corresponds to the Pasodoble dance (traditional
and ballroom).

5. Jive

In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United
States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of
the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance. Glenn Miller introduced his own jive dance in 1938 with
the song "Doin' the Jive" which never caught on.

Jive is one of the five International Latin dances. In competition it is danced at a speed of 44
bars per minute, although in some cases this is reduced to between 32 and 40 bars per minute.

Many of its basic patterns are similar to these of the East Coast Swing with the major
difference of highly syncopated rhythm of the Triple Steps (Chasses), which use straight
eighths in ECS and hard swing in Jive.