popular dance
Crowd-favorite choreography style
Popular dance refers to social or recreational dance styles that gain widespread appeal among ordinary people rather than trained performers.
These dances emerge from clubs, streets, and social gatherings—the twist, the hustle, line dancing, breakdancing—and spread through imitation and media.
The term distinguishes everyday dancing from ballet, modern dance, and other concert forms requiring formal training: Popular dance has always borrowed from African American culture.
- ballroomVenue for formal dances
- bachataDominican romantic music genre
- salsa dancingPartnered Latin ballroom style
- breakdanceAcrobatic street-style movement
- swingSuspended recreational seat
voguing · disco fever · cha-cha · clogging · rhythm · jump · foxtrot · beat · kathak · Irish stepdance · krumping · jazz · hip-hop · step · waltz · merengue · hula · popping
- Latin Musiccumbia, salsa, merengue, bachata, bossa nova
popular danceclassical ballet
Formal European theatrical dance
court dance · classical dance · minuet · pavane · ritual dance
popular danceclassical ballet
Formal European theatrical dance
contemporary dance · ballet · modern dance · classical dance · court dance