Dance in Pretoria

Inside Dance, in Pretoria

• Acro Dance 2 entries

  Dance that works acrobatic skills into the choreography.

• Acrobatics 3 entries

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

• African 2 entries

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

• Ballet 9 entries

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

• Commercial Dance 1 entry

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

• Contemporary 9 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 3 entries

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

• Irish Dance 1 entry

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

• Jazz 4 entries

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

• Line Dance 3 entries

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

• Lyrical 3 entries

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

• Modern 8 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
  • Social Latin
  • Sokkie
  • Swing
  • Wedding Dance

• Social Dance 7 entries

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

  • Line Dance
  • Social Latin
  • Sokkie
  • Swing

• Spanish Dance 1 entry

  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.

• Street Dance 7 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.