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History Of Social Dancing in the 20th Century
This is a BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL DANCING IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Social dancing was derived from the concept of dancing by a couple, usually a man and a lady, in a closed hand. Coming from the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, these dances gained popularity from the standard ballroom dances with diverse rhythms, tempos, and aesthetics. Although all these aspects changed with the change in the social attitudes, the one thing, which remained common through out the history of dancing, is that of the couple dance or the social dances. (Evans 2001)
These ballroom, although progressed with the pace of the music and social themes of the various periods, before the nineteenth century, these ballroom dances as they became to be called were categorized into the five different types. They were Modern Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Foxtrot, and Quickstep, all of which are presently danced the world over both socially as well as in dance sport competitions.
The Modern Waltz, had it's origins in Austria, and was called the Waltzen in the earlier...
In Austria, this dance was called as the Landler, and the particular characteristics of this dance were that the dancers wore heavy shoes, and had animated hopping, slapping and stamping steps with complex underarm turns. However, in the later periods, lighter shoes with quick gliding and rotating movement steps were adopted, with a slower tempo.
The same Waltzen, or the modern Waltz, along with the fast Viennese Waltz evolved in America retaining the principle characteristics of turning the body, with an addition of a dip, and each partner holding or placing hands on the other partner's hips. This particular dance gained popularity by the name of "Boston," also because of the fact that it was the first ballroom dance in which the partners had to place their feet parallel, instead of turning them out as done in the traditional ballet.
Then there was the Tango, which had it's origins in Africa, where it was called the Tangano. The Tango dance was brought to the American continent by the African slaves, and together with the flamenco dance brought by the Spanish settlers, formed…
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