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JAZZ : Jazz Dance is an umbrella term that can refer to several related dance styles. All of them are connected via common roots, namely tap, ballet, jazz, music, and African-American rhythms and dance. Various technical skills have been adapted to fit the Jazz form of dance.

TAP: Tap Dance was developed in the United States during the nineteenth century, and is popular nowadays in many parts of the world. The name comes from the tapping sound made when the small metal plates on the dancer’s shoes touch a hard surface. This lively, rhythmic tapping makes the performer not just a dancer, but also a percussive musician.

BALLET : Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance court, further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. It is a highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. It has been influential as a form of dance globally and is taught in ballet schools around the world which use their own culture and society to modernize the art. Ballet dance works are choreographed, and also include mime, acting, and are set to music (usually orchestral but occasionally vocal). It is best known if the form of classical ballet, notable for its techniques, such as Pointe work and turn-out of the legs, its graceful, flowing, precise movements, and its ethereal qualities. Later       developments include neoclassical ballet and contemporary ballet.

LYRICAL : Lyrical dance is a fusion of ballet and jazz dance techniques. Lyrical dance challenges choreographers and dancers to use motion to interpret music and express emotion. A lyrical dancer’s movements attempt to show the meaning of the music. Lyrical jazz is a very passionate and emotional dance style. It portrays certain emotions such as love, and tells a story through every movement. Lyrical dance has a relatively recent history and a genesis based on the coming together of ballet with rock/folk/pop/alternative music and a variety of jazz dance styles and modern dance. Choreography is often emotional, gripping, and exquisitely delicate, all at the same time. This style of dance is recently often categorized as contemporary .

 
   CONTEMPORARY  : Contemporary dance is the name given to a group of 20^th century concert dance forms. It is a collection of systems and methods developed from Modern, and Postmodern dance, thus contemporary dance is not a specific dance technique. Australian, European, Canadian and American contemporary dance differ from each other in a number of ways. Contemporary dance principles include: centering, alignment, breath, balance, opposition and emotion. (These principles, if you haven’t noticed are all included in Jazz, Lyrical, Modern and Ballet as well.)

MODERN : Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20^th century. Although the termMODERN dance has also been applied to a category of 20^th century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20^thcentury concert dance. In the early 1900’s Modern Dance started a rebellion against the rigid constraints of Classical Ballet. Shedding the authoritarian controls surrounding classical ballet technique, costume and shoes, the early modern dance pioneers focused on creative self-expression rather than on technical virtuosity. Modern Dance is approximately 100 years old. 

HIP-HOP: Hip hop dance refers to dance styles, mainly street dance styles, primarily danced to hip-hop music, (but not always), or that have evolved as a part of the hip hop culture. By its widest definition, it can include a wide arrange of styles such as breaking, popping, locking and krumping, and even house dance. It can also include the many styles simply labeled as hip hop, old school hip hop (or hype), hip hop new style and freestyle.