Samba

Rhythmic National Brazilian Samba dance now confidently entered the program of modern ballroom dancing. Samba includes a typical Latin movement hips, which expressed "Samba Bounce" springy movement.

Brazilian carnival samba dance was first introduced in 1917. Finally, in Brazil, formed in 1930 as a ballroom dance.

Spring in the knees, a great advancement in the hall, his popularity throughout the world is rightly called the Latin American waltz samba. In the US, he appeared in 1939. In the Soviet Union the dance samba came from Poland, but in 1957 at the Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow were already dancing the samba.

At the carnival dancers compete with each other. You can see the representatives of the various samba schools. In Rio, the samba dancers, each alone. Women desperately twirl her hips, while men move a little more restrained. Steam samba is also popular and is a great success and celebrate in a more restrained pace.

Wherever the sound of samba, her music will be a carnival atmosphere - excited, colorful, living in exciting rhythms and enchanting melodies dance. In our school you will learn to dance to dance samba.

Rumba

Rumba - slow dance, which is characterized by sensual, full of love, movements and gestures, has a Latin style of movement in the hips, is an interpretation of the relationship between man and woman.

Rumba was originally a wedding dance. Many of his movement is perceived as erotic meant simple and uncomplicated action in the economy.

Dance the rumba has gradually become popular. In 1933 he was in the United States, and before World War II in Europe. American rumba called square, the time signature of 4/4. A characteristic feature of this dance is that each step is delayed transfer of weight on the leg. Weight transfer is on a slightly relaxed leg at the knee, followed by a rectification. At the same time move the hips from side to side, known as the "Cuban motion".

There are two current versions of Rumba - Cuban and American (square). First used in sporting ballroom dances, the second on the social, ie, dances for himself and for all. Now called the pearl of Rumba Latin American dance or dance of love.

Pasodoble

The dance of the Spanish Gypsies. The first name of the dance - "one Spanish step» («Spanish One Step»), because the steps are made for each account. PasoDoble was one of many Spanish folk dances associated with various aspects of Spanish life. Partly based on the paso doble bullfighting. Partner shows a bullfighter, and partner - his cape or muleta (a piece of bright red cloth in the hands of a matador), sometimes - the second bullfighter, and very rarely - the bull is usually defeated the final blow. The character of the music corresponds to the procession before the corrida (el paseíllo), which usually takes place to the accompaniment of pasodoble. In this dance are accentuated attention on the creation of what to do should the matador. Body shape with the addition of Flamenco dance movements in his hands, elbows, wrists and fingers.

 

Jive

Jive - International version of Swing Dance, now dancing Jive (Jive) performed in two styles - International and Swing and often combine both in a variety of shapes. Very strong influence on Jive has such dances as the rock'n'roll and Dzhaterbag. Jive is sometimes referred to as a six-step rock'n'roll. Jive - very fast, consumes a lot of energy dance. This is the last dance that dance competitions, and dancers have to show that they are not tired and ready to execute it more efficiently.

The main figure of the modern jive is a fast syncopated chasse (step → Console → step) left and right, with a slow step back and return forward. Hips and knees are raised at the expense of "and", which is located between the main accounts. Steps are made with a sock. The weight of the body is always in front and moved from foot to foot. In the performance of the dance couples are trying to focus every even count, thereby increasing the speed of the individual fragments of the figures. This is just a small description of the motion, for a more complex technique involves rotation of the hips, back to work, and much more.

And one more thing: do not jump into the jive.

Slow Waltz.

When in the early 1800s, the waltz was first presented in English balls, he was condemned by church and state for vulgarity and immorality. It was, after all, the first time the company entered outrageous dance position where man was holding a woman so close. But this peculiarity, which caused so much criticism, has caused fascination waltz, and stayed.

Throughout history, the waltz has undergone many changes. For a long time before being brought before the public in ballroom dancing was popular village in the seventeenth century, the villages in Austria and Bavaria. But in the middle of the eighteenth century, the dance gained popularity and spread throughout Europe.

Waltz arrived in the US in mid-1800 usually waltz was still too fast, requiring too much from conventional dancer, and soon began writing music composers who became much slower. From this came the waltz music style called "Boston", with slow corners and a persistent, sliding movements. Since gradually lost positions "Boston", he has stimulated the development of what we know as a slow waltz. Throughout the twentieth century, the British and order equipment improved movement waltz competitive international style

Modern slow waltz steps is probably the easiest to learn dancing is now among the executable. However, steps are in no way the most important factor of modern dance and the dancer should pay very careful attention to a number of other factors before being metabolized swing and dance rhythmically magnificent flight. Housing fair use (Contrary body movement), which determines the ease of swing body in turn, proper relaxation and straightening the knees, with lifts and slopes of controlled use of the body - all has an effect on the creation of this dance, which is seen as a steady stream of rhythmic, melodic character. The features mentioned are examined under the relevant headings and should be studied by the basic principles are clear.

Tango

"Tango - a genuine expression and that it is obliged to his immortality,

because in music, in his word is the image of a people who know how to love "

Alfredo de Anhelis.

At the end of the 19th century, Buenos Aires was filled with immigrants and immigrants from Europe and Africa, many of whom were single and looking for friends among the new unfamiliar environment. Naturally, these unfortunate people have joined the ranks of the port (the letters. Port people - Argentine immigrants), in search of drinks that would drown sorrows, unstable relationships, and all the entertainment that can distract from depression. Different cultures have mixed and brought a new style of music that emerged from African drums, Indian rhythms, Latin trends and popular in the pampas (plains) Argentine music.

As you might guess, this new music was called tango. Historians claim that the name comes from the sound of the tambourine African heard as "tan-go", or from the Latin tangere (touch). The dance began as a pantomime relationship between a girl of easy virtue and a pimp. Improvisation was filled with emotional message and seductive circular gestures. This sexy choreography emphasized the melancholic sounds of the bandoneon, a German tool, very similar to an accordion.

Viennese Waltz

The era of the minuet change of eras Waltz. With the advent of the French Revolution, dance a minuet as exudes the essence of the first decades, died of natural causes. English folk dance, expressing the complacency of the bourgeoisie felt much better. Young people whose preferences find expression in new forms, experienced the revolutionary events of the 80s and 90s of the 18th century. Now they have seen the dance can reveal deep emotions, to meet the needs of body and soul, and causing more vital and dynamic expression than allowed sensible and decent rules of the old masters of dance. Overflow feelings and desire to expand horizons beyond the traditional understanding of the canons of the French rationalism, also were among the factors romantic movement in art in Europe. This new direction is clearly expressed in the waltz, dance, crowded spirit of Dionysus.

Waltz started as a revolving dance couples. He was particularly popular in southern Germany and Austria, where he was known under different names, such as Dreher (dance turners), Ländler (country dance) and Deutscher (German dance). More than any other dance that represents some of the abstract values ​​of a new era, the ideas of freedom, personality, passion and expression. This may explain its rapid breakthrough in the light of international popularity. Its popularity peaked in 1787, when it was presented on the operatic stage. Vienna to become the city of the waltz, for he surpassed all the rest in the wilderness. Viennese Waltz erased national borders, and in 1804 the French admitted in his passionate love of the light, the moving dance. "Waltz, the next - Waltz" has become a common appeal in the ballroom, for the French, that they could not get enough of the dance.

Foxtrot

"The basis of the moving dance - move or move smoothly around the room, covering as much of the dance floor. The couple must merge two people - one to move, glide smoothly and vigorously on the dance floor, if they were dancing in the water, they should not have awaken a single wave. Imagine a room filled with thick whipped cream. The purpose of the dancers - move vigorously gliding through cream, clean way, without touching the rest of the whipped cream around. " This is one of the best definitions that can be found on the foxtrot, adapted from the book "The ABCs of ballroom dancing."

It is believed that the star of vaudeville named Harry Fox came up with what we now call the foxtrot. In the summer of 1914 Harry and his troupe of "American Beauties" to put a dance piece in the New York theater. As part of his game, he took a few steps lynx under the provocative music and people called this dance "Steps Fox" - Fox`s trot.

During provocative jazz rhythms, which began in 1910, was born completely new phase of ballroom dancing. Partners danced close together, absorbed in music, and finding this new exciting jazz tunes and exciting. Banihag, turkitrot and kaslvolk - these are just a few of the many buffonadskih and ridiculous dance that quickly captured the minds of the public.

Foxtrot not long remain "steps Fox," he was reborn in a sleek, elegant dance. When we observe the pair, moving gracefully across the floor, or anyone, and would never think of ridiculous music. When the British dance teachers brought the American sliding ballroom dance in England, they scraped all the buffoonery, jumps and kicks, leading to a smoother version that has survived to the present day. There are variations foxtrot - Quickstep, and even such dances as the Lindy (swing) and Hustle.

Quickstep

Invented during World War II in the suburbs of New York, he was inspired by Caribbean and African dancers. In the end, he made his debut on the stage of American music-hall and immediately became popular on the dance floor.

Foxtrot and quickstep come from the same dance. In the twenties many bands played the Slow Foxtrot too fast, and eventually, it turned into two different dances. The pace is slow foxtrot has become even slower and Quickstep became the fast version of the foxtrot.

In 1925 began a feverish passion for Charleston, which greatly influenced the development of Quickstep. The British identified Quickstep from the original Charleston as a progressive dance without pinatelnyh movements and mixed with fast foxtrot. They called this dance "Quick Foxtrot and Charleston".

In the championship of the "Star" in 1927, an English couple Frank Ford and Molly Spain played a fast version of Foxtrot and Charleston without the characteristic Charleston knee movements, and made it a dance for two instead of one.

There was a lot of controversy, why the dance has become so popular in Britain. It was believed that the Quickstep was a British method warm indoors in winter.