Dance History
A dance contest from the pre-Civil War era, in which enslaved African Americans would mock the movements of their oppressors, making it a subtle act of rebellion.
Cakewalk
Name after the South Carolina city it was developed in, this dance style was popularized during the 1920s.
The Charleston
A category of a larger topic.
Genre
A genre of dance developed in the Dominican Republic.
Bachata
A dance with one person.
A genre of music evolved by African American musicians in the 1890s. It is played especially on the piano and is a mixture of military marching music and African folk music.
Ragtime
A social partner dance genre that originated in Harlem, New York in the 1930s. It evolved from the Charleston. It is a cornerstone of the swing dance family.
Lindy Hop
A structure or arrangement of people or objects; usually in a series of lines or shapes.
Formation
A dance creator.
Choreographer
To practice something (usually a dance or another artistic work).
Rehearse
American music genre, emerging in the early 20th century, that developed from ragtime and blues by African Americans. It is characterized by improvisation and syncopation.
Jazz
A dance genre that is a blending of many different hispanic cultural rhythms and styles, not limited to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Colombia.
Salsa
The act of creating (usually a dance).
Choreograph.
Unison
To make or do something in an unplanned manner.
Improvise
A music and dance genre developed by African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, and Italian Americans during the late 1960s through the1970s. It was a blending of the different music and dance styles of each culture.
Disco
The iconic dance craze song that was made famous by Chubby Checker, whose 1960 recording brought the song and dance to widespread fame.
The Twist
A dance term used to describe the choreographic technique in which an action is performed by dancers one after the other, creating a domino effect.
Canon
The steps and movements in a dance.
Choreography
A period of 10 years and a period of 100 years.
Decade (10 years) and Century (100 years)
An uptempo style of dance music originating in Jamaica and derived from reggae, in which a DJ improvises lyrics over a recorded instrumental backing track or to the accompaniment of live musicians.
Dancehall
A subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, breakdancing, and graffiti art or writing
Hip Hop
An arrangement of events starting with the earliest and following in order in which they occured
Chronological
An enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity.
Craze
A group of people that perform together.
An ensemble