Dance Styles

Okay, there are the big ones - ballet, ballroom dancing etc… but what about folk dancing and morris dancing? Are these two different forms of dance or is one the father and the other the daughter?

And what about a dance category such as modern Jive? Where does that fit?

Jive is regarded usually as a form of ballroom - so it modern Jive a derivative of Jive which is a part of the group of dances called ballroom?

Wikipedia says that dance is both a sport and an art form and can be regarded as any stylised form of non-verbal communication.

But what do you think? If you are a Salsa teacher and you begin to develop new styles of Salsa, is that a derivative of Salsa or is it a whole new form of dance?

Let’s discuss below…