Dance Information at Footsteps Dance Company

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DanceSport

Dancesport denotes dance as a sport activity. Initially this term was applied to competitive ballroom dancing, in its International Style...

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Break Dance

Breakdance (media coined phrase), also known as breaking, b-girling or b-boying, is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement...

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Cha Cha

The cha-cha-cha is a Latin American dance. In ballroom dancing, it is increasingly popular to call the dance cha-cha.
The dance teacher Pierre Lavelle from the...

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Foxtrot

The Foxtrot is a ballroom dance which takes its name from its inventor, the vaudeville actor Harry Fox. According to legend, Fox was unable to find female...

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Funk

Funk is an African American musical style. It originated in the 1960s with performers such as James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, and George Clinton...

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Hip Hop

"Hip-hop" as a form of dance is becoming more popular. Hip hop dance comes from breakdancing, but does not consist wholly of breakdancing moves. Unlike most...

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Jive

Jive is a dance style in 4/4 rhythm that originated among African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, i.e...

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Salsa

Salsa is usually a partner dance form that corresponds to salsa music. In some forms, it can also appear as a performance dance. The word is the same as the Spanish...

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Samba

Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Brazilian origin in 2/4 time danced under the Samba music. However, there are three steps to every bar, making the Samba feel like...

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Paso Doble

Paso Doble or pasodoble is a lively style of dance to the duple meter march-like pasodoble music. It actually originated in France, but is modeled a...

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Quickstep

Quickstep is an International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot. An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep...

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Tango

Tango is a social dance originating in Buenos Aires Argentina, and Montevideo Uruguay. The musical styles that evolved together with the dance are also known as "tango"...

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Viennese Waltz

Viennese Waltz (German: Wiener Walzer ) is the name of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may...

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Waltz

Viennese Waltz (German: Wiener Walzer ) is the name of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may...

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