Definitions of Dance Styles
Hip Hop
A dance style originating from the urban streets of Atlanta, L.A., and NY - for those wanting a class full of funky rhythm and pulsating moves. At Cumberland Dance, our hip hop class is called Street Jazz.
Jazz
A contemporary dance style seen from Broadway to music videos combining a variety of styles into an overall discipline that can broaden any student's dance repertoire. The jazz classes offered at Cumberland Dance are very technique oriented.
Modern
A contemporary style of dance with technique based on control, breathing and balance with a wonderful sense of weight and strength movement. An important part of every well-versed student's training. Modern dance styles from Horton to Cunningham are now being incorporated into most major dance company's repertoire. . It expresses complex emotions and abstract ideas.
Ballet
A classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement and by elaborate formal gestures, steps, and poses. . A theatrical presentation of group or solo dancing to a musical accompaniment, usually with costume and scenic effects, conveying a story or theme. Classical theatrical dancing based on the danse d'ecole, the rules and vocabulary that were codified around 1700 in France.
Tap
A step dance tapped out audibly by means of shoes with hard soles or soles and heels to which taps have been added. The phrase "tap dance" first appeared in print around 1928.
Lyrical
Lyrical dance is an expressive art form combining jazz and ballet technique which uses strong emotion and showmanship. This class includes modern dance technique and combinations. Lyrical dance encompasses components of ballet, modern and jazz. It uses the lyrics of a song or feelings from your heart to make the movements take shape. Like jazz, it is a blend of styles while its origin is in ballet technique. . It is considered a more "freeing" style of dance when compared to ballet. Dancers must be aware that a strong ballet technique is needed for this art form. This is why we recommend students taking lyrical should have previous ballet training as well as continuing ballet class along side the lyrical class.
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