Dance in Vaal Triangle

Inside Dance, in Vaal Triangle

• Ballet 1 entry

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

• Contemporary 1 entry

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

• Jazz 1 entry

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

• Lyrical 1 entry

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

• Modern 1 entry

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

• Street Dance 1 entry

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

  • Hip Hop

• Tap 1 entry

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