Dance moves

There is an extensive variety of dances that have different movements; sometimes then again they might use the same moves.
Dance moves tend to highlight the concepts of lead and follow and connection.

• Ball Change

It is a dance move that composes of two steps: a partial weight transmits on the ball of a foot (placed e.g., behind), followed by a step on the other foot.



• Basic Step

This move describes the nature of a specific dance. It sets the rhythm of the dance; when the dancers do not perform any other steps and return to this basic step for default.



• Chasse

This step has many variants and is used in many different dances, all of them being triple-step patterns of gliding nature, steps going principally step-together-step.



• Dip (dance move)

Dips are common to many dance styles, such as: Tango, Salsa, Lindy Hop, Ballroom dances. These steps consist that the follow (usually a woman) is supported by the lead (usually a man).



• Gancho (dance move)

Gancho means "hook" in Spanish and Portuguese, and illustrates certain "hooking actions" in some dances of Latin American tradition.



• Grapevine

This move looks different in several ballroom, folk, and club dances, but shares a common form: it includes side steps and steps across the support foot.



• Harlem Shuffle

It is a dance maneuver that takes different forms. One variety is as an absolute line dance, consisting of approximately 25 steps.



• Promenade dance move

It is a basic dance move in several of dances such as English Country Dance, contra dance, and square dance.



• Snap

Snap as a dance move is a quick, abrupt body/head/arm/hand action differing in form in diverse dances. It may involve body ripple (body wave), sudden turn of the head, hip motion, etc.



• Split

The splits are a gymnastic move, principally used in the figure and dance skating move in which one makes their legs parallel to one another, but perpendicular to their body.



• Vogue

Vogue known as "Performance" or "voguing" is an extremely stylized modern dance distinguished by photo model-like poses included with angular, linear and rigid arm, leg, and body movements.



• Waving

Waving is an illusionary dance style compounded of a sequence of movements that give the appearance that a wave is traversing through a dancer's body.