Salsa Dance

Salsa dance originated in Cuba and is the most popular and pleasant social dance form and a romantic dance style involving side to side couple dance movements requiring a lot of coordination and weight changing between the Salsa dance partners. Salsa dance involves two basic movements; the forward basic movement and the backward basic movement combined with several other small movements and body positions. While dancing, the basic steps can be modified significantly as part of the improvisation and stylings of the people dancing. The different Salsa dance styles are named after the countries or cities – Cuban ‘Casino’ style, Columbian ‘Cali’ style, Miami style, Los Angles style, New York style etc.

Hip-Hop Dance

Hip-hop dance refers to wide range of dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. Diverse cultures like Tap, Jazz, Rock and Latin American have contributed in the development and evolution of this fascinating form of freestyle natural dance offering great flexibility in body movements. Most of the dancing moves in hip-hop dance are performed standing up and the performers are free to add their own original dancing steps and dance moves as they desire, learning hip-hop is not to follow fixed and pre-defined dance steps because the charm of original hip-hop is freedom.

Ballet Dance

Ballet dance is a type of performance dance form which originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form further evolved as a highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. It is primarily performed with the accompaniment of classical music and has been influential as a form of dance globally. Ballet dance works (ballets) are choreographed and performed by trained artists, include mime and acting, and are set to music (usually orchestral but occasionally vocal). It is a poised style of dance that incorporates the foundational techniques for many other dance forms. The broad classification includes – Classical Ballet, Neoclassical Ballet and Contemporary ballet.

Jazz Dance

Jazz dance includes dance styles originating from vernacular dance with African – American origin and the modified modern version with origin from Caribbean traditional dance style. The popular jazz dancing follows no rigid rules and prescribed dance steps offering freedom to the jazz dancers to perform with their own unique dance style maintaining the individuality giving utmost importance to the essence of originality. The balanced, graceful Jazz dancing involves fine dance footwork, typical dance moves, variable leaps and a number of quick turns.

Fitness Dance

Fitness dance or dancing for complete fitness is performed with an aim of physical fitness, body exercises and holistic health benefits and may include an aim of losing weight – slimming, maintaining body flexibility, keeping active or managing lifestyle disorders. It may include practicing a particular dance style for targeted benefits or a combination of dancing styles - freestyle dancing and other practices like Yoga, Diet therapy etc. Fitness dancing or slimming dance can be performed as a hobby or as a therapy and helps in getting better health, fitness and shape.

Swing Dance

Swing dance includes dance styles originating from vernacular dance with African – American origin and broadly divided into Ballroom swing and Jazz dance swing styles involving competition dancing by couples and social dancing on popular music. With time, Swing dance style has developed many different forms with each local swing-dance community having a distinct local culture and thus defining swing dance and the appropriate music to accompany it, in different ways.

Tap Dance

Tap dance with an African – American origin is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of dancer’s tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive music instrument and has two major variations - rhythm (Jazz) tap dance and Broadway tap dance. Broadway tap dancing focuses more on the dance and is widely performed as a part of musical theater. Rhythm tap dancing focuses more on musicality, a part of the Jazz tradition. The Tap dance sound is made by shoes with a metal "tap" on the heel and the toe.

Ballroom Dance

Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially for recreation and competitively around the world. Ballroom or smooth dances are normally danced to Western music -often from the mid-twentieth century and the couples dance counter-clockwise around a rectangular floor following the line of dance. The two Ballroom dance styles - International Ballroom style allows only closed dance positions, whereas American Smooth style allows closed, open and separated dance movements. In competition ballroom, dancers are judged by diverse criteria such as dancing poise, the hold or frame, dance posture, musicality and expression, timing, body alignment and shape, floor craft, foot and leg action, and presentation.

Street Dance

Street dances formally known as vernacular dance are the dance styles that evolved outside of dance studios in any available open space, such as streets, dance parties, parks and school grounds. They are often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and the other dancers. Wide variety of fast, dramatic and energetic dance moves like clapping of hands, variable head movements, rigorous hand movements and stomping feet are used in this style of free styled dancing as an effective and wonderful means of expression to release ones emotions in a non-violent manner.