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The History of Ballroom Dancing

Ballroom Dancing is when a couple performsforms of dance, are expressions of feelings,
any of the various social dances that followthoughts and emotions. These dances may be
a pattern of predictable steps. Examples ofstricter than other forms of dance and may
these dances are the tango, waltz, fox trotlimit the range of steps and body movement
and quick step. It has an immenselyinvolved, but it is still one of the best
amplified popularity spreading across Europe,expressions of love, joy and pain between two
the Americas and Asia. Ballroom dancing haspeople.Also, all ballroom dances are
had a relatively short but interestingperformed by only two people, usually a man
history and has evolved from a recreationaland a woman. These dances are performed in a
activity to a worldwide sportingcertain position termed as the "Closed Hold".
event.Ballroom dancing originated in EnglandIn this position, the couple strictly
in the late 18th and early 19th centuries inremains in contact in five different points
which these dances, such as the waltz, wereor places. These five points consists of
performed by the upper and elite classes ofthree hand contacts, one elbow contact and
society in balls and parties. During theone chest contact.The first hand contact
late 19th to the early 20th centuries, itoccurs when the man's left hand holds the
became a trend among the working and middlelady's right hand. Second is when the lady's
class where they would go to gatherings andleft hand is placed at the top of the man's
events in public dance halls. In the earlyright upper arm. In the tango, the lady's
1920s, ballroom dancing competitions startedleft hand is placed behind the man's arm, not
to boom that in 1924, an organization wason top of it. The third contact is when the
formed called the Ballroom Branch of theman's right hand is placed under the left
Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. Theshoulder blade on the lady's back. The
objective of this organization was tofourth contact is when the lady's left elbow
standardize and formalize ballroom dancingrests on the man's right elbow and both arms
techniques, sets of steps and music to whichare kept in a horizontal line. The lady's
it was danced to.In legitimate Dance Sportarms are held comfortably by the man's and
competitions and in social events, there arepermit her to follow the man's lead with
five standard dances. These are the Modernease. This also gives the couple the
and the Viennese Waltz, the Tango, the Slowappearance of having a bearing of royalty.
Foxtrot and the Quickstep. These dances areThis is an important characteristic in the
standardized and categorized into segregatedballroom dances that came from Western Europe
teaching levels and utilize vocabulary,because these dances were performed in the
rhythm and tempo and techniques which areroyal courts. The last point of contact is
accepted internationally.Although thesewhere the right area of the chest of one
dances come from very different backgroundstouches the right area of his partner. This
and have special techniques, aesthetics,closeness allows very little room between the
rhythms and tempos, they do share commonpartners' faces thus contributing to the
qualities. All ballroom dances, as with alldance's romantic appeal.



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