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Harlequin Liberty Ballroom is the used by the BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and Professional World Ballroom Dance Champion, Christopher Hawkins. Harlequin Fiesta and our specially crafted Harlequin Liberty Ballroom dance floor offer an excellent versatile dance floor for all styles of ballroom dance. With several sub-categories to ballroom dancing, dancers require a versatile floor.

Commonly used as shorthand for any partner dance, ballroom has today evolved into two main subgenres – standard/smooth and Latin/rhythm.ĭances within these categories include the waltz, tango and foxtrot, and pasodoble, bolero and samba.īallroom is a popular form of competitive dance, or dancesport, with competitions being held all over the world. Scottish Ballet on Harlequin Cascade Ballroomīallroom dance is a type of partner dance originating at the end of the sixteenth century in France. Harlequin Floors also offer professional ballet barres available as either permanent wall mounted, floor mounted or freestanding barres. Harlequin Cascade is one of our most popular ballet dance floors and can be laid over many of our sprung floors. Harlequin Floors have developed a range of specialist ballet dance floors providing enough traction to prevent injury while still allowing for fluid movements demanded by ballet dancing. With six core recognised methods: the Cecchetti method, the Bournoville method, the Vaganova method, the French School, the Royal Academy of Dance method and the Balanchine method, ballet is studied professionally at top dance schools all over the world. This is in the form of a ballet, in which the dance is choreographed with classical music.īallet productions vary between using elaborate costumes and staging and using minimal costuming and bare staging.īallet is now a widespread, highly technical form of dance with many subgenres including classic, romantic, neoclassical and contemporary. Here is a list of the most popular types of dance:īallet dance developed during the Italian Renaissance, before evolving in France and Russia into a concert dance meant for public performance.

Since then, different dances have changed, merged and evolved into what we know today as the most well-known dance genres. Dance has been a part of human culture since the very earliest communities and civilisations, with recorded evidence of dancing being found dating back to 30,000 years ago.
