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Social dances

are intended for participation rather than performance

• merely to socialize and for entertainment.

Waltz (SB)

country folk dance in Austria and Bavaria in the 17th century

characterized by its “rise and fall” action

Foxtrot (SB)

1. is an American dance, believed to be of African-American origin.

2. It was named by a vaudeville performer Harry Fox in 1914.

3. The dance therefore was originally named as the “Fox’s trot”.

Tango (SB)

1. It is a partner dance, and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata.

• “Dance of Love” is a passionate and dramatic dance.

Quickstep (SB)

1. is a light hearted dance of the standard ballroom dances.

• Its origins are in combination of slow foxtrot combined with the Charleston.

Rumba (IL)

1. It is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It is a dance where the hips are active and always moving in “cuban motion”.

Samba (IL)

1.  It is a Brazilian dance of African origin with a basic pattern of step-close-step-close

Jive (IL)

1. It is a dance style that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s.

•  It was popularized in 1934 by Cab Calloway.

• It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance. It is an expression denoting glib or foolish talk.

Paso Doble (IL:)

1. is a theatrical Latin dance with Spanish and French origins. meaning “double-step” in Spanish. It is also based on the movement of “bullfight”.

Cha-cha-cha (IL)

• It is a flirty dance that grew out of the Cuban Mambo and became immensely popular in the United States in the 1950’s.

• It consists of triple chasse steps (cha cha cha’s) and rock steps