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	Ballet This genre of dance is very hard to master and requires much practice while providing the foundation for many other dance styles. It primarily focuses on pointe work, flowing, precise acrobatic movements, and often presenting the dancers in the conventional short white French tutu.
	Cheer Cheer dance is based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate in competitions.
	Hip-Hop This refers to dance styles primarily danced to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. What separates hip-hop dance from other forms of dance is that it is often freestyle (improvisational) in nature and hip-hop dancers frequently engage in battles.
	Tap Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using ones shoes, as well as the floor, as a percussive instrument. Two major variations on tap dance exist, rhythm (Jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the dance side, and is widely performed as a part of musical theater. Rhythm tap focuses instead on the musical side, and practitioners consider themselves to be a part of the Jazz tradition.
	Pointe En pointe (pointe) means “on the tip” and is a part of classical ballet technique, usually practised using specially reinforced shoes called pointe shoes or toe shoes. The technique developed from the desire for dancers to appear weightless and sylph-like and has evolved to enable dancers to dance on the tips of their toes for extended periods of time.
	Acro Acro dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements. It is defined by its athletic character, its unique choreography, which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics, and its use of acrobatics in a dance context.^[1] It is a popular dance style in amateur competitive dance as well as in professional dance theater and contemporary circus productions such as those by Cirque du Soleil.
	Jazz Jazz dancers often wear leather jazz shoes, to help them move smoothly when executing turns (e.g. pirouette). Modern jazz dance is frequently influenced by other dance styles such as acro, ballet, contemporary, lyrical, and hip-hop. In turn, many other dance styles are influenced by jazz dance.
	Clogging Clogging is a type of folk dance with roots in traditional European dancing, early African-American dance,^[1] and traditional Cherokee dance in which the dancer’s footwear is used musically by striking the heel, the toe, or both in unison against a floor or each other to create audible percussive rhythms.
	Lyrical Lyrical dance is a fusion of ballet with jazz and contemporary dance techniques. Lyrical dance style has its primary basis in ballet, combining the many technical elements of classical ballet with the freedom and airier aspects of jazz, contemporary and modern dance.
	Tumbling In gymnastics, tumbling, also known as power tumbling is an acrobatic sporting discipline which combines some of the skills of artistic gymnastics on the floor with those of trampolining. It is practised on a 25 metre long sprung track.