Vocabulary

Dance.

Types of dance.


Ballet

Ballet blanc - Women wears white tutus.

Ballet d'action- Has a plot, usually tragic

Ballet du le cour- Spetacles for entertainment, performed by the aristrocracy, in the 16th and 17th century. Unites music, recitatives and mimes.

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Jazz

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Tap- is a dance style in wich dancers wear socoial clothers and special shoes with metal taps, they use their feet to drum, creating a rythmic pattern.









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Contra-dance - is an Amercian folk dance in which couples dance in 2 parallel lines and perform a sequence of dance movements with different partners.

Ballrom dances- Social dances which include

fox-trot,

waltz,

tango,

rumba,

swing,

mambro,

samba

chacha.