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Introduction > Themes and dance styles | Using the resource | Introductory section video/DVD

Themes and dance styles

The following is a list of the themes and dance genres/styles in the order that they appear on the video and DVD 1.

1: Introductory section
  • Cook Islands dance
  • Mixed-ability dance: Wheelchair dance
  • Coon dance
  • Irish jig
  • French dance
  • Mixed-ability dance: Flying dance
  • Other dances
  
2: Break-dance and hip hop
  • Break-dance
  • Hip hop
 
3: Polynesian styles
  • Māori haka
  • Poi
  • Waiata ā-ringa
  • Takalo (Niuean war dance)
  • Kailao (Tongan war dance)
  • Ma'ulu'ulu (Sāmoan women's dance)
  • Ma'ulu'ulu (Tongan women's dance)
  • Sāmoan sāsā
  • Fa'ataupati (Sāmoan slap dance)
  • Niuean war dance
  
4: Use of props
  • Chinese sword dance
  • Chinese waist drum dance
  • Chinese ribbon dance
  • Lotus dragon dance
  • Chinese stilt dancing
  • Maypole dance
  • Korean fan dance
  • Hungarian bottle dance
  • Morris dances
  • Soke (Tongan stick dance)
  • Ghillie callum (Scottish sword dance)
 
5: Hands and feet
  • Ballet
  • Irish reel
  • Flamenco
  • Morris dancing
  • Highland dancing
  • Tap dance
  • Ballroom dancing
  • Latin American dancing
  
6: Fusion dance
  • Indian classical dance
  • Bollywood dance
 
7: Contemporary dance
  • Contemporary dance class
  • War Pet
  • The Internal Assassin Field
  • Te Kakano
  
8: Digital dance
  • Virtual dance

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