Fashion dance

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Dance craze is called a ballroom dancing , the following characteristics of a fad has: He will in a short time - within several months - popular, mostly in the wake of a special piece of music or dance film in conjunction with extensive media coverage, and disappears after some time - months to several years - again.

Whether a dance is one of the fashion dances or not always depends on the perspective of the beholder, in particular on the two factors place and time: Mambo is considered a fashion dance in Germany because it spread spontaneously through the dance film Dirty Dancing (1987) and quickly becomes back in It fell into oblivion, but experienced a spread in its country of origin, Cuba , for which the expression fad is inappropriate. Salsa and Tango Argentino were called fashion dances in Germany in the 1990s, but today they show a variety of dance styles, well-established scenes and lasting popularity that are untypical for fashion dances .

Examples of a fashion dance are the Charleston in the 1920s, the Twist in the late 1950s and the Lambada , which came to Germany from Brazil in 1989 from the band Kaoma 's hit of the same name and experienced a brief boom.

Fashion dance is often mentioned in the same breath as party dance . In fact, there are many dances to which both terms apply at the same time, such as the Macarena of the 1990s and the Dance of the Ketchup Song (2002). In principle, however, these are different things.