Ballroom Dancing is when a integrate performs any of the discrete group dances that consequent a pattern of predictable steps. Examples of these dances are the tango, waltz, fox trot and quick step. It has an immensely amplified popularity spreading over Europe, the Americas and Asia. Ballroom dancing has had a relatively short but consuming history and has evolved from a recreational activity to a worldwide sporting event.
Ballroom dancing originated in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in which these dances, such as the waltz, were performed by the upper and elite classes of community in balls and parties. while the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, it became a trend among the working and middle class where they would go to gatherings and events in group dance halls. In the early 1920s, ballroom dancing competitions started to boom that in 1924, an club was formed called the Ballroom field of the Imperial community of Teachers of Dancing. The objective of this club was to standardize and formalize ballroom dancing techniques, sets of steps and music to which it was danced to.
In legitimate Dance Sport competitions and in group events, there are five approved dances. These are the contemporary and the Viennese Waltz, the Tango, the Slow Foxtrot and the Quickstep. These dances are standardized and categorized into segregated teaching levels and utilize vocabulary, rhythm and tempo and techniques which are approved internationally.
Although these dances come from very separate backgrounds and have special techniques, aesthetics, rhythms and tempos, they do share common qualities. All ballroom dances, as with all forms of dance, are expressions of feelings, thoughts and emotions. These dances may be stricter than other forms of dance and may limit the range of steps and body movement involved, but it is still one of the best expressions of love, joy and pain between two people.
Also, all ballroom dances are performed by only two people, regularly a man and a woman. These dances are performed in a safe bet position termed as the "Closed Hold". In this position, the integrate strictly remains in contact in five separate points or places. These five points consists of three hand contacts, one elbow contact and one chest contact.
The first hand contact occurs when the man's left hand holds the lady's right hand. Second is when the lady's left hand is settled at the top of the man's right upper arm. In the tango, the lady's left hand is settled behind the man's arm, not on top of it. The third contact is when the man's right hand is settled under the left shoulder blade on the lady's back. The fourth contact is when the lady's left elbow rests on the man's right elbow and both arms are kept in a horizontal line. The lady's arms are held favorably by the man's and permit her to consequent the man's lead with ease. This also gives the integrate the appearance of having a bearing of royalty. This is an important characteristic in the ballroom dances that came from Western Europe because these dances were performed in the royal courts. The last point of contact is where the right area of the chest of one touches the right area of his partner. This closeness allows very diminutive room between the partners' faces thus contributing to the dance's romantic appeal.
