Dance in East Rand

Inside Dance, in East Rand

• Acro Dance 2 entries

  Dance that works acrobatic skills into the choreography.

• Ballet 9 entries

  Classical dance built on turnout, the five positions and a set vocabulary of steps.

• Belly Dance 2 entries

  Middle Eastern dance worked in the hips and torso, through undulations, accents and shimmies.

• Commercial Dance 2 entries

  Studio dance made for camera and stage, learned as set choreography rather than improvised.

  • Heels

• Contemporary 6 entries

  Concert dance that puts ballet's legwork together with the free torso of modern dance, and adds floor work and improvisation.

• Dance Fitness 1 entry

  Dance taken as a workout, where the routine serves the exercise.

• Freestyle 2 entries

  Fast solo dance to high-energy pop, built on jazz technique and carrying kicks, spins, leaps and gymnastic tricks. Also called freestyle disco.

• Jazz 3 entries

  Theatre dance built on isolations, syncopation and a grounded, weighted line.

• Line Dance 2 entries

  Danced in rows to a counted sequence everybody knows, facing the same way and without a partner.

• Lyrical 1 entry

  Dance that follows a song's words and feeling, on ballet's line with jazz's give.

• Modern 2 entries

  Theatre dance in a balletic line, worked through set turns, leaps and travelling steps, also called Modern Theatre.

• Partner Dance 6 entries

  Dance for the social floor, danced as a couple or among couples.

  • Ballroom
  • Latin
  • Wedding Dance

• Social Dance 3 entries

  Dance you learn in order to dance it with the people around you, at a party rather than on a stage.

  • Line Dance

• Street Dance 6 entries

  Dance that grew up in clubs and public space rather than in a studio, danced largely on improvisation.

  • Hip Hop

• Tap 2 entries

  Dance that makes its own rhythm audible, through metal plates at the toe and heel.