What kinds of dances are there?

Dance is divided into: classical dance, folk dance, modern dance, modern dance and ballet. 1. classical dance: based on folk dances, it has been refined, sorted, processed and created by professional workers in past dynasties and passed down through long-term artistic practice. It is considered to be a dance with certain demonstration significance and classical style characteristics.

2. National folk dance: it is a dance form created, accumulated and developed by the broad masses of people in the long historical process and widely circulated among the masses. It directly reflects people's thoughts, feelings, ideals and aspirations. 3. Modern dance: it is a dance genre that rose in Europe and America at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalistic tendency of classical ballet at that time, which was conformist, divorced from real life and simply pursuing skills. It is advocated to get rid of the shackles of the rigid movement procedure of classical ballet, and to express the true feelings of people freely with dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement, and it is emphasized that dance art should reflect modern social life. 4. Modern dance (new dance): a new dance style different from the above three styles. It is often based on the needs of expressing content and shaping characters, eclectic, drawing on and absorbing dance expression means and methods of various styles and dance schools, and eclectic for our use, thus creating a unique new dance style different from the various dance styles that have been formed. 5. Ballet is a highly stylized theater dance, refined and processed by professional dancers in the court. The word "ballet" is a transliteration of the French word "ballet", which means "jump" or "dance". Its original meaning is only the floorboard of actions with legs and feet as moving parts. Baidu encyclopedia-dance