classic dance

It was born in France, it goes with classical music and it requires many year of training because its steps are very technical.

• There are six different styles to learn it:

-vaganova
-chechetti
-royal
-balanchine

urban dances

They have theis origins in the heart of the big cities.
They try to represent the people's attitudes in  their lives.

-HIP-HOP: It is  cultural movement that came up in the Afroamerican and Latinoamerican communities in some neighborhoods of New York.
Then it gave rise to break dance, the most popular urban dances.
There re also other popular urban dances as Funky and reggaeton.

BELLY DANCE

In this dance are cambined some tradicional elements, from the Middle East and North of Africa.
It is, executed with hips movements mainly.

MUSICALS

They can appear in films and plays, where dances are part of them for example :
Annie, High School Musical and Grease.

RELIGIOUS DANCES

These dances are used to pray and to praise to God

SPANISH POPULAR DANCES

They are the result of several changes in the dances celebrated throughout our history.

-SEVILLANAS: It is a sevillian folk song and dance, although it is also very popular in every Andalusian cities.

-CHOTIS: It is  typical dances in Madrid, to the sound of a barrel organ.

-JOTA: It is aldo called parranda and it is the typical dances in Murcia.

-FLAMENCO: It is the best-know Spanish dance. It cmes from the Andalusian gipsies.

HALL DANCES

They are those where a couple dances in a coordinated way by following the music rhythm.
Nowadays, these dances are also practiced as an sport modality incompetition, so they need a prior training period.
the best-known hall dances are:

• CHA-CHA-CHÁ: It has its origins in Cuba, and it was an evolition of the `DANZON'.

• TANGO: This dance cames from Argentina. It expresses itself sadness and sensuality. 

• SALSA: It is a Latinoamerican mixture between conventional Jazz and latin folk.

• VALS: It is an elegant dance with an sslowwrhythm. It cames from tirol ( Austria).

• ROCK AND ROLL: It is a dance derived from a mixture of some American folk music genders.

• BOLERO: It is a kind of music from Cuba, and it is very popular in every Hispanoamerican countries.