Dance in Johannesburg

Inside Dance, in Johannesburg

• Acro Dance 14 entries

  Dance that works acrobatic skills into the choreography.

• Acrobatics 12 entries

  Acrobatic floor skills trained solo, from handstands and cartwheels up to walkovers and handsprings.

• African 13 entries

  Dance of the African continent, from the village forms to what is danced in a township street tonight.

  • African Social Dance

• Ballet 48 entries

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

• Belly Dance 3 entries

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

• 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.

• Bollywood 4 entries

  Indian film dance, setting classical Indian movement beside folk and club styles to Hindi film music.

• Burlesque 5 entries

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

• Commercial Dance 10 entries

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

  • Heels
  • K-Pop

• Contemporary 39 entries

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

• Creative Movement 1 entry

• Dance Fitness 6 entries

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

  • Zumba

• Freestyle 7 entries

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

  • Rock 'n Roll
  • Slow Dance

• Indian Classical 3 entries

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

  • Kathak

• Irish Dance 1 entry

  Irish step dance, held still and upright from the waist with the feet carrying every beat.

• Jazz 29 entries

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

• Line Dance 10 entries

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

• Lyrical 6 entries

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

• Modern 25 entries

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

• Partner Dance 36 entries

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

  • Argentine Tango
  • Ballroom
  • Hustle
  • Latin
  • Social Latin
  • Sokkie

• Social Dance 27 entries

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

  • African Social Dance
  • Hustle
  • Line Dance
  • Social Latin
  • Sokkie
  • Swing

• Spanish Dance 5 entries

  Dance from the Spanish tradition, danced to guitar, song and castanets, with the rhythm driven through the feet and the line carried in the arms and hands.

  • Danza Estilizada
  • Escuela Bolera
  • Flamenco

• Street Dance 48 entries

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

  • Amapiano
  • Breaking
  • Dancehall
  • Hip Hop
  • House
  • Krump

• Tap 24 entries

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