Dance History

Prepared By:
Ferry Ann Montes
 The History of Dance

A brief dance history of ballroom, breakdance, country, fad,

flamenco, hiphop, jazz and Latin dance, salsa, swing, tango
and western.

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 Argentine Tango
The antique Argentine Tango was influenced by the Tango Habanera, which
bears no resemblance to the Argentine Tango we know today.

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 Argentine Tango

⬗ The Tango Habanera was heard in 1883 but died towards the end
of the century.
⬗ A character who lived in the very early 1900's known as the
"compadrito" created the straightened out forms of the antique
Argentine Tango and invented the traditional figures of this dance.
His dance style and stance supported his macho view of his world
at those times.
⬗ The Golden Age of Tango took place in in the late 1940's and
early 1950's.

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Ballet
 Ballet
⬗ Originating in Italy and expanding from there to many
points in the world, ballet has always been regarded
as a trained form of dancing that required practice to
achieve.
⬗ Ballet has been around since the 15th century when
small groups of people would gather to witness a
rudimentary form of ballet.

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Breakdance

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 Breakdance
⬗ Though some experts trace the lineage of the break dance back to the
Brazilian Frevo, a Russian folk-dance-influenced form of martial-arts
dance/march, it seems more likely that breakin', while it did originate in
Brazil approximately 500 years ago, was invented by African slaves rather
than native Brazilians or their Portuguese rulers.
⬗ Introduced by the legendary break dancers "Rock Steady Crew" in the late
'70s and early '80s -- in what is actually a rather ancient art form with roots
extending far wider and deeper than circa-1960s Bronx and Brooklyn
street people

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 Breakdance
⬗ As the '70s evolved, more emphasis was placed on
groundwork involving stylized leg movements (so-called
Floor Rock or Down Rock) and moves were added and
deleted as tastes in funk, soul and early hip hop music
evolved.
⬗ The dance gained in worldwide popularity during the '80s
and '90s with break-dance moves being incorporated into
movies and musical theater production

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Cha Cha

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 Cha Cha
⬗ Originally known as the Cha-Cha-Cha.
⬗ Became popular about 1954.
⬗ Cha Cha is an offshoot of the Mambo.
⬗ an innovation introduced in 1948 by the musician Enrique Jorrin,
combining two Cuban dances, the 'Danzon' and the 'Montuno'.
⬗ When the English dance teacher Pierre Margolie visited Cuba in
1952, he realised that sometimes the Rumba was danced with
extra beats

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Clogging

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 Clogging
⬗ clog dancing or clogging, as it is sometimes known,
takes its origins from square dancing.
⬗ It is not quite clear but clogging may have been
developed as long ago as the 1400s, which would
make it one of the oldest types of dancing still in
existence since its creation.

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 Disco
Most Disco dances have strong roots in Swing,
Samba, Cha Cha, Mambo, Merengue, Fox Trot and
Tango.

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 Disco
⬗ The Hustle is believed to have originated in New York in
1970.
⬗ It went through many variations in the seventies, with line
dances for groups of people, solo movements that came
and went, and partnership dances.
⬗ John Travolta and "Saturday Night Fever" made dancing
the "in" thing for many people, especially men.

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 Disco
Popular disco music of the 70's included Bee Gees
"Stayin' alive", "Night fever", "More than a woman",
"Everybody Dance" (Chic) and Donna Summer's "Love
to love you baby"

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Flamenco and the
Spanish Gypsy
 Flamenco and the Spanish Gypsy
⬗ Between 800 and 900 A.D., a large exodus of people occurred from the
Punjabi region of India.
⬗ These nomadic groups, generally referred to as Roman and/or gypsies, divided
into two major migratory routes, the most traceable moving west across Asia
and the European continent, including Spain.
⬗ In 1782, the Leniency Edict of Charles III restored some measure of freedom to
the Spanish gypsy and allowed this music and dance to be presented to and
adopted by the general population of Spain

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Jazz Dance

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 Jazz Dance
⬗ Jazz originated at the close of the nineteenth century in the
seamy dance halls and brothels of the South and Midwest where
the word Jazz commonly referred to sexual intercourse.
⬗ The birthplace of jazz has many origins: New Orleans, St. Louis,
Memphis and Kansas City are just a few.
⬗ By 1900, it was a blend of Spanish, French, English, German,
Italian, Slavic and countless blacks originally brought in as slaves.

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Mambo

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 Mambo
⬗ The Mambo dance originated in Cuba where there were
substantial settlements of Haitians/
⬗ In the back country of Haiti, the "Mambo" is a voodoo priestess,
who serves the villagers as counselor, healer, exorcist,
soothsayer, spiritual advisor, and organizer of public
entertainment. However, there is not a folk dance in Haiti called
the "Mambo.“
⬗ The fusion of Swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating
rhythm and in turn created a new sensational dance.

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 Mambo
⬗ The "Mambo" dance is attributed to Perez Prado who
introduced it at La Tropicana night-club in Havana in
1943.
⬗ The Mambo gained its excitement in 1947 at the
Palladium and other renowned places such as The
China Doll, Havana Madrid and Birdland.

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Swing
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 Swing
⬗ The history of swing dates back to the 1920's, where the
black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz
music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop.
⬗ From the mid 1940's to today, the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug,
Lindy, and Swing, were stripped down and distilled by the
ballroom dance studio teachers in order to adapt what they
were teaching to the less nimble-footed general public who
paid for dance lessons.

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 Waltz
• Waltz: from the old German word walzen to roll, turn,
or to glide
• a dance born in the suburbs of Vienna and in the
alpine region of Austria. As early as the seventeenth
century, waltzes were played in the ballrooms of the
Hapsburg court.

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 Waltz
• During the middle of the eighteenth century, the
allemande form of the waltz was very popular in
France.
• By the end of the eighteenth century, this old
Austrian peasant dance had been accepted by
high society, and three-quarter rhythm was here
to stay.
• Reportedly, the first time the waltz was danced in
the United States was in Boston in 1834.

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