Tango is a dance that has influences from European and African culture. Dances from the candombe ceremonies of former slave peoples helped shape the modern day Tango. The dance originated in lower-cla ...
The term 'ballroom dancing' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means 'to dance' (a ball-room being a large room specially designed for such dance ...
Interpretive dance is a family of dance styles that seeks to translate particular feelings and emotions, human conditions, situations, or fantasies into movement and dramatic expression combined. It c ...
There are singular definitions of African dance: Africa, a continent three times the size of the United States, is ethnically and culturally the most diverse on the planet. Though similar themes may b ...
Aesthetic Group Gymnastics (AGG) is developed from the Finnish "naisvoimistelu". "AGG is art, expression and feelings combined into a high level competitive sport. It differs from Rhythmic Gymnastics ...
The word gymnastics derives from the common Greek adjective γυμν?? (gymnos) meaning "naked", by way of the related verb γυμν?ζω (gymnazo), whose meaning is "to train naked", "train in gym ...
At the turn of the 20th century, synchronized swimming was known as water ballet. The first recorded competition was in 1891 in Berlin, Germany. Many swim clubs were formed around that time, and the s ...
While people have been ice skating for centuries, figure skating in its current form originated in the mid-19th century. A Treatise on Skating (1772) by Englishman Robert Jones, is the first known acc ...
The International Skating Union (ISU) is the governing body for international competitions in figure skating, including the World Championships and the figure skating events at the Winter Olympic Game ...
Compulsory figures involves using blades to draw circles, figure 8s, and similar shapes in ice. Skaters are judged on the accuracy and clarity of the figures and the cleanness and exact placement of t ...
Kata originally were teaching and training methods by which successful combat techniques were preserved and passed on. Practicing kata allowed a company of persons to engage in a struggle using a syst ...
The word ballet comes from the French and was borrowed into English around 1630. The French word in turn has its origin in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance) which comes from Latin ballo, ...
Music in the Western civilization by Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin gives the following definition of virtuoso:"...a virtuoso was, originally, a highly accomplished musician, but by the nineteenth c ...
Folk dances are dances that share some or all of the following attributes:Dances performed at social functions by people with little or no professional training, often to traditionally based music.Dan ...
Art can connote a sense of trained ability or mastery of a medium. Art can also simply refer to the developed and efficient use of a language to convey meaning with immediacy and or depth. Art is an a ...
