Under the Scope

 Back to DanceSport

Ballroom Dancing
 

With so much information on the web, we have reduced this page to a general introduction. You can follow the links at the end of the page for further information.

"The dances that make up the list of DanceSport dances are performed competitively at amateur and professional levels throughout the world. Ten international style ballroom dances—five Standard and five Latin—are defined as DanceSport by the International DanceSport Federation (IDSF) and the World Dance Council (WDC), the international governing bodies of amateur and professional DanceSport, respectively."
wikipedia - List of Dancesport dances

So the 10 DanceSport dances we have are:

Standard
 Waltz
 Tango
 Viennese Waltz
 Slow Foxtrott
 Quickstep

Latin
 Samba
 Cha Cha Cha
 Rumba
 Paso Doble
 Jive

New Vogue
In Australia and New Zealand we have a third style, called New Vogue. New Vogue is basically a sequence style dance based on the Standard style. All couples have the same steps, dancing in a circle, but the rules leave significant room for personal style and variation. Similar to American Smooth, couples do not remain in closed position exclusively.

Links & Resources


History of Latin
www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/pubs/latin.html

History of Modern Ballroom
linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/pubs/modern.html

New Vogue
http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/pubs/vogue.html

Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.com

Google
www.google.com

YouTube
www.youtube.com