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Top 10 Most Popular Styles of Ballroom Dance


1. Salsa is a partner dance form that corresponds to salsa music, however it is sometimes done solo too.

2. Tango is a social dance form that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina

3. Foxtrot is a ballroom dance which takes its name from its inventor, vaudeville actor Harry Fox.

4. Cha-cha-cha is a Latin American style of dance music derived from the rumba and mambo in 4/4 meter.

5. Waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in 3/4 time, done primarily in closed position.

6. Swing is commonly used to refer either to a group of dances developing during the swing era (late 1920s to 1940s) or to the current dances and dance scenes centred on swing dancing.

7. Rumba  is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the slave trade to Cuba and the New World.

8. Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style

9. Quickstep is an International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot.

10. Bolero  is a 3/4 dance that originated in Spain in the late 18th century, a combination of the contradanza and the sevillana.

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