An artistic dance form performed to music, using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures.
Example: I trained as a ballet dancer.
en: balet
ballet tights
noun
Ballet tights are a specific pair of tights meant for the rigors and activity of ballet.
Example: Ballet tights come in different variations, footed, footless, and convertible.
en: baletné pančuchy
ballroom dance
noun
A formal social dance for couples.
Example: During his school years, he studied ballroom dancing and acting.
en: spoločenský tanec
bolero
noun
A Spanish dance in simple triple time.
Example: They danced a romantic bolero together.
en: bolero
contemporary
adjective
A genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres.
Example: The British dancer and choreographer had already done much to take contemporary dance to audiences beyond the usual cognoscenti.
en: súčasný tanec
folk dance
noun
A popular dance considered as part of the tradition of a particular people or area.
Example: The programme is 90 minutes of dynamic Indian folk dance, live music and storytelling.
en: ľudový tanec
foxtrot
noun
A ballroom dance having an uneven rhythm with alternation of slow and quick steps.
Example: Government control of public expenditure has been like a slow foxtrot—slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.
en: foxtrot
Hip Hop
noun
A style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing.
Example: In his examples of the cool pose, Majors includes the use of humor, feigned emotional detachment, and specific stylistic expressions like the black athlete's inventive basketball dunking, football spiking, and endzone dancing, as well as black HIP HOP musicians aggressive posing and graceful yet strenuous dancing styles.
en: Hip Hop
jazz
noun
A type of music of black American origin which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz.
Example: The other fact is that Pizza Express has own JAZZ club with restaurants in London Soho, thus customers may enjoy having pizza and listening JAZZ music.
en: džez
moonwalk
noun
A dance with a gliding motion, in which the dancer appears to be moving forward but in fact is moving backwards.
Example: Jackson does the moonwalk in his current stageshow.
en: moonwalk
pasodoble
noun
A fast-paced ballroom dance based on a Latin American style of marching.
Example: I remember doing a pasodoble and it was hideous — just awful, awful. The stylish routine features the tango, cha-cha-cha and pasodoble.
en: pasodoble
pirouette
noun
An act of spinning on one foot, typically with the raised foot touching the knee of the supporting leg.
Example: After a few pirouettes, many shaking fists were seen, as we sped off.
en: pirueta
Pointe shoe
noun
Type of shoe worn by ballet dancers when performing pointe work.
Example: Dancers will sometimes wear different pointe shoe models for different performance pieces.
en: Baletné špičky
samba
noun
A Brazilian dance of African origin.
Example: Each room in her house had different musical genre performances, with in the front rooms -near to the street- respectable dances such as the polka, and toward the back SAMBA and percussive, "ethnic" rhythms.
en: samba
shuffle dance
noun
It is improvised dancing where the person repeatedly “shuffles” the feet inwards, then outwards, while thrusting their arms up and down, or side to side, in time with the beat.
Example: The old couple shuffled across the dance floor.
en: shuffle tanec
tango
noun
A ballroom dance originating in Buenos Aires, characterized by marked rhythms and postures and abrupt pauses.
Example: Before this shift, the TANGO only gained marginal recognition as a truly Argentine metropolitan dance, as in the poem 'Milonga' by Oliverio Girondo.
en: tango
tap dance
noun
A dance performed wearing shoes fitted with metal taps, characterized by rhythmical tapping of the toes and heels.
Example: There was an old man who could tap dance and he taught my brother how to play a hornpipe so that he could dance.
en: stepovanie
The Leotard
noun
A close-fitting one-piece garment worn especially by dancers, acrobats, and aerialists.
Example: Leotards should be very comfortable, allowing a range of movement without restriction.
en: Trikot
The Tutu
noun
A female ballet dancer's costume consisting of a bodice and an attached skirt incorporating numerous layers of fabric, this being either short and stiff and projecting horizontally from the waist.
Example: The ballerina wore a white bodice with the tutu.
en: Tutu
waltz
noun
A dance in triple time performed by a couple, who as a pair turn rhythmically round and round as they progress around the dance floor.
Example: Miranda raises her voice to the posh girls A series of shots shows the other people reacting to Miranda and Nicholas dancing together as they WALTZ into the ballroom.