History Of Dance

  • 1653

    1653
    le Ballet de la nuit, Ballet of the night was a performance that went on for 13 hours for a fourteen year old Louis XIV as Apollo, the Sun King (Le Roi Soleil).
  • 1800

    1800
    Waltz dancing began in the 18th century and was inspired Austrian folk dance.Waltz is preformed with a partner and still is popular nowadays.The waltz started by being an dance style to be preformed in front of the royals.The music for this style of dance is mostly orchestrates.
  • 1850s

    1850s
    Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes as you step. William Henry Lane was one of Known Tap dance back in the day.
  • 1900

    1900
    Isadora Duncan
    Angela Isadora Duncan was a famous dancer, She caused conserverstiy for some things she did like showing her ankles in a performance.She was known as th kother of dance
  • 1906

    1906
    In 1906 the ragtime dance was a ballet stage performance complete with narration and choreography.
  • 1909

    1909
    Matisses Dance, In 1909 matisse put dance and art together.They crated painting to show movements and the connection between dance and art.
  • 1913

    1913
    The rite of spring caused a riot between people decision if the rite of spring was either music or dance.People had different thoughts because this style involved dancing and singing.
  • 1925

    1925
    In 1925, Charleston was crated, during this era it was extremely popular.This style of dance is preformed as a solo,duet and groups.
  • 1942

    1942
    Jive Dance was first popular in the 1940s.The Jive dance was originally the Europeans.Jive dance is associated with Swing dance and used the same kind of music
  • 1944

    1944
    In 1944 contemporary dance began to establish. Contemporary dance is a style that combine many other styles of dance like,Jazz, lyrical and classical ballet.Most Contemporary dances express a story through the song and movements .Isadora Duncan inspired to create this piece of dance through developing her own more natural style.This style genre of dance has now grown to become one of the most popular styles of dance world wide.
  • 1953

    1953
    The bunny hop, The original bunny hop was a craze that apart of a jazz and swing.The bunny hop is a novelty dance that was created at Balboa High School in San Francisco.
  • 1961

    1961
    In 1961 Swing,Jazz was the latest craze.This craze was called 'the twist' craze. Move such as the mashed potato were used a lot in dances.
  • 1970

    1970
    During 1970 Jazz became its own official dance style which is a combination of all type of up beat dance moves like the twist.This decade was a combination of disco music and rock.
  • 1980s

    1980s
    In the 1980s hiphop began to become increasingly popular as rap music become the new graze.Hiphop is still a very popular type of dance style.