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Adult Dance in Johannesburg

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  • Ballet 6 entries

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

  • Biodanza 1 entry

    Group movement to music built around felt experience and contact with the others in the room, devised in Chile in the 1960s.

  • Burlesque 1 entry

    Stage dance built on tease and character, with the removal of a glove or a fan as part of the act.

  • Contemporary 2 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.

  • Indian Classical 1 entry

    Indian classical dance, danced in a set rhythm with the hands and face carrying the story.

  • Jazz 1 entry

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

  • Line Dance 1 entry

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

  • Modern 1 entry

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

  • Partner Dance 2 entries

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

  • Social Dance 2 entries

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

  • Street Dance 2 entries

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

  • Tap 1 entry

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

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