Tap

Tap is a special kind of dance with special tap shoes which have a metal piece at the bottom of them (can have one or two) andwith your feet you make a special dance and you can hear the sound of the tap shoes which is very nice in the background of the dance. Because the dancers make sound, they are considered percussive musicians.



Here is a short video of tap dance:

Hip-Hop

Hip-Hop

Hip-Hop is a cultural movement which was developed in New-York city in the 1970's, Mostly among African-Americans & Latin-Americans. There are a lot of different Hip-Hop competitions around the world that millions of people attend everyday.

The seven main elements of Hip-Hop are:

1. Rapping


2. Graffiti Writing


3. Break-Dancing


4. DJing


5. Beatboxing


6. Slang

And the most important....Hip-Hop Fashion

Hip-Hop Fashion

The fashion of Hip-Hop is a very distinctive style originated from the African-Americans, Carribean-Americans and Latin-Americans. It is still worn as an everyday style and many people love it. It is worn all over the world and each country wears it in their own way. It can be worn in many different colours. Fashion complements the expressions and attitueds of the Hip-Hop culture. This fashion has changed many times during history as lots of new designs and designers have been discovered all across the world.

Modern & Classic Ballet ... <3

Modern Ballet

Modern Ballet is a both slow and fast dance where you move to express your feelings in very flexible movement.

Usually when you express your feelings in Modern Ballet you will feel the following:

When you're angry - you jump heavily and do really big sharp movements that build up

When you're sad - your moves are slow calm and 'closed'

When you're happy - you jump like your floating on air and your moves open as far as they can

Fashion of Modern Ballet

There is no particular fashion to Modern Ballet except from leotard because for some dances you will need ballet shoes but because your dancing to express your feelings you wear:

When you're happy - leotard, ballet shoes and maybe baggy crop trousers .... colourful

When you're sad - you will either wear really tight stuff or really baggy stuff .... dark

When you're angry - very baggy and dark

Classic Ballet

Classic ballet is a way of dancing accurate, modestly, and having very fixed movements.

Classic Ballet is usually shown in operas and some musicals

Fashion of Classic Ballet

The typical dress of Classic Ballet is a leotard with leggings/tights and ballet shoes.

Girls might choose to wear skirts and leg warmers.

All of the clothes above are very tight because in Classic Ballet you want to show how sharp, flexible and sombre your movement is.

Salsa... =]

The Salsa is a spanish dance created to the Salsa music made by the spanish speaking people from the Caribbean. Normally Salsa is a partner dance although it can be in solo forms, line dancing and 'Rueda de Casino' (where groups of couples exchange partners in the form of a circle)

The fashion of Salsa is for the girls usually a red or a black cocktail dress with frills at the end and it is usually tight at the top and wider at the bottom so the dancers can move their legs freely. The boys wear casual wide (usually black) jeans and long either puffy or really tight top.

The shoes that both boys and girls wear are black high heals but the girls' heals are higher.