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While the majority of professional dancers are more accustomed to working in large studios, the app has introduced a more direct way for dancers to post their artistry.

Television Dance Competition TV shows have increased the popularity of dance over the years. Shows like Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and Dance Moms have allowed for a larger audience to understand and appreciate the artistic sport.

The competition style of reality TV draws in viewer participation, which grows the audience. These shows allow for more people to understand the athletic ability required to perform these choreographed routines each week. The number of children who participate in dance has grown as the popularity of these shows has grown.

Commercial dance Commercial dance is when dance is used as a way to sell a product, concept, brand, or celebrity. Commercial dance is used in many digital places such as music videos, TV shows, or commercials, movies, advertisements, touring music concerts, Broadway, or Las Vegas shows. Commercial dance can be any style of dance as long as it is being used to sell something.

Judges scored the routines based on four main categories: choreography, emotional execution, technique, and overall impression. Overall impression will typically include costuming, song choice, and other smaller factors. The purpose of dance competitions is to provide a safe, educational place for dancers. Competing gives dancers the opportunity to perform in front of an audience.

Oftentimes, competitions will take place in a professional setting or may vary to non-performance spaces, such as a high school theatre. As far as competitive categories go, most competitions base their categories according to the dance style, age, experience level, and the number of dancers competing in the routine.

Notable examples of traditional dance-music couplings include the jig, waltz, tango, disco, and salsa.

Some musical genres have a parallel dance form such as baroque music and baroque dance; other varieties of dance and music may share nomenclature but developed separately, such as classical music and classical ballet. The choreography and music are meant to complement each other, to express a story told by the choreographer and dancers.

There are also folk dance, such as Irish step dancing, Indian Bharatanatyam, Spanish flamenco, and African tribal dances.

Often, a dance style will be endemic to a particular culture or subculture. This includes jazz dance, evolving from African-American folk dance, as well as Bollywood dance which mixes classical Indian dance, folk dance, and modern styles.

Dance styles typically spread beyond their point of origin, as occurred with belly dancing.

Many dance styles originated in the 1970s, such as aerial dance, hip-hop dance, modern dance and street dance.

Examples are Western ballet and modern dance, Classical Indian dance such as Bharatanatyam, and Chinese and Japanese song and dance dramas, such as the dragon dance.

Most classical forms are centred upon dance alone, but performance dance may also appear in opera and other forms of musical theatre.

Participatory dance, whether it be a folk dance, a social dance, a group dance such as a line, circle, chain or square dance, or a partner dance, such as in Western ballroom dancing, is undertaken primarily for a common purpose, such as social interaction or exercise, or building flexibility of participants rather than to serve any benefit to onlookers.

Such dance seldom has any narrative.

A group dance and a corps de ballet, a social partner dance and a pas de deux, differ profoundly. Even a solo dance or interpretive dance may be undertaken solely for the satisfaction of the dancer. Participatory dancers often all employ the same movements and steps but, for example, in the rave culture of electronic dance music, vast crowds may engage in free dance, uncoordinated with those around them.

On the other hand, some cultures lay down strict rules as to the particular dances people may or must participate.

A man and woman, mid-leap Two modern dancers Two common types of group dance are theatrical and participatory dance. Both types of dance may have special functions, whether social, ceremonial, competitive, erotic, martial, sacred or liturgical. Dance is not solely restricted to performance, as dance is used as a form of exercise and occasionally training for other sports and activities.

Dance performances and dancing competitions are found across the world exhibiting various different styles and standards.

Dance may also be participated in alone as a form of exercise or self expression. Dancing is common human behaviour, and does not necessarily require specific choreography.