Social or Ballroom Dance

Ballroom dancing is a popular type of dancing generally performed by pairs.

They include such forms as walts, foxtrot, swing, and other favorites as the cha-cha,
boogie, tango, as well as the latest rock dances. Dancers may dance to the music of
life bands in ballrooms or Discotheques/ discos- to recorded music in night clubs.
Ballroom dancing is the kind of dancing people do for fun, it’s sometimes
called popular dancing.
Social dances are fads that become associated with the period in which they
were popular. Some popular dances were considered shocking when they first
appeared.
WALTZ

Ballroom dancing is presentle undergoing a period of revival. It’s now known

as the famous dance sports where local, national and international participants join
the competion because it offers lucrative or a great deal of profit prizes such as cash,
plaque, material rewards, and privilege to travel around the world to the winners.
Ballroom dancing is also an effective exercise prescribed by medical
practitioners to young professionals whose work is sedentary in nature.

THEORITICAL OR SPECTACULAR DANCE

It’s so called spectacular because it’s performes for the enterntainment of
spectators. This includes ballet, modern dance, musical comedy dances, and tap
dancing.
Ballet Modern dance
1. Ballet
Formalied type of dance which has its origin in the royal courts of the Middle
Ages. It’s the great spectacular dance from the Western world and perhaps even in our
country now. Often shown in the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
The term ballet refers to a series of solo and concerted dances in which poses
and steps are combined with light flowing figures, accompanied by music and scenic
accessories expressive of a dramatic story, theme, atmosphere.
Includes staging, scenery, costumes,dancing, and music, but no dialogue and
no singing.
The modern full ballet is a dramatic whole, which consists of a complete
dramatic action through the pantomime of the dancers.

2. Modern Dance
Is a dance form characterized as natural and free, doesn’t stick too
conventions, and has varied styles of movements, usually based on the current trend.
Developed in the early 1900’s.
Is also called expressional dance.
Isidora Duncan

Her ideas started the new forms of modern dance, inspired by the art of
ancient Greece, and preached the natural use of body clothed in easy flowing
garments.

Modern dances are sometimes called contemporary or interpretative dances. It

emphasize personal communication of moods and themes.
Modern dance has dynamic tempo and is vitaly precise spontaneous, free, and
natural.

Musical comedy
Borrowed much from the modern dance. Refers to those dances performed by
soloists, groups, and choruses in theaters, night clubs, motion pictures, and television.