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The music used in competitive dance routines is typically adapted from commercially available songs created by professional recording artists.Dance routines are subject to time limits at most dance competitions, and consequently the original, commercial music is usually edited to conform to such time limits.
These annual competitions only became official in 1936, and since 1937 the title was held by dancers from the United Kingdom for the rest of that century. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the championships were put on hold for six years. Following its revival, the professional ballroom dancing world was becoming more and more ...
Ten international style ballroom dances—five Standard and five Latin—are defined by the World Dance Council (WDC), which has world-wide membership of all countries taking part in ballroom competitions. The WDC incorporates various groupings and former titles, such as the World Dance and DanceSport Council (former title). The WDC is the ...
The World Social Dance Committee "deals with all matters of the dance profession that relate to the activities of Dance Schools and Dance Teachers". [13] It does not regulate social dance directly – that is the business of individual organisers, the dance teacher organisations, such as the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing , and the ...
A "Standard" or "Latin" competition encompasses all five dances in the respective category, and a "Ten Dance" competition encompasses all ten dances. The two styles, while differing in technique, rhythm, and costumes, exemplify core elements of ballroom dancing such as control and cohesiveness.
The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, commonly referred to as THON, is a 46-hour dance marathon which takes place every February in the Bryce Jordan Center at Pennsylvania State University to raise money to combat pediatric cancer. THON was started in 1973 by the university's Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils and in its first ...
The “matriarch” of Black dance, Katherine Dunham, was a dancer and choreographer and the first to open a Black dance company in the 1930s that performed all over the world. Dunham’s ...
It represents all the major professional DanceSport countries. The dances covered in the Ten Dance are the five International Ballroom (Standard) dances: waltz , foxtrot , quickstep , tango and Viennese waltz , along with the five International Latin Dances: rumba , samba , paso doble , cha-cha-cha and jive , as defined in ballroom dancing terms.