The Foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It is danced to big band (usually vocal) music. The dance is similar in its look to Waltz, although the rhythm is in a 4/4 time signature instead of 3/4. Developed in the 1910s, the Foxtrot reached its height of popularity in the 1930s and remains practiced today.
Formation dance is a style of ballroom dancing. It is pattern or shadow team dancing by couples in a formation team. The choreography may be based on a particular dance or a medley of dances. Formation dancing may be done for exhibition or for competition between teams.
The Folk Dance are dances that are developed by people that reflect the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. The terms "ethnic" and "traditional" are used when it is required to emphasize the cultural roots of the dance. If some dances, such as polka, cross ethnic boundaries and even cross the boundary between "folk" and "ballroom dance", ethnic differences are often considerable enough to mention, e.g., Czech polka vs. German polka.
Exhibition Dancing is one of the three divisions of Ballroom Dance, along with Social Dancing and competitive dancing (DanceSport). Exhibition dancing is choreographed Ballroom Dancing, where movements and lines of a theatrical nature are used to enhance the atmosphere of a dance that is performed before an audience.
Entrechat is a classical ballet term meaning “interweaving” or “braiding.”
The Empire Dance Championship is a sanctioned National Dance Council of America (NDCA) four-day championship hosted annually in August in New York, NY (USA) since 2013 by current organizers Allan Tornsberg, Vibeke Toft, Giampiero Giannico and Katharina Giannico.
The Eminence Junior Dance Festival (EJDF) is a one day competition, organized by Sports Administration, is hosted in Jersey City, USA.
The Eastern United States Dancesport Championships is one of the oldest Ballroom Dance competitions in North America. Hosted annually in Boston, Massachusetts in Mid-February by Mark Nocera, the Eastern United States Dancesport Championships is one of the three original Championships that were run by the USISTD in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
The Eminence Cup is a sanctioned 3-day DSF and World Dance Organization (WDO) sanctioned competition.
East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance. It belongs to the group of swing dances. It is danced under fast swing music, including rock and roll and boogie-woogie.
Yerrington and Outland equated East Coast Swing to the New Yorker in 1961. Originally known as "Eastern Swing" by Arthur Murray Studios, the name East Coast Swing became more common between 1975 and 1980.
