Related reading: There are many kinds of dance art, which originated from human labor and entertainment, and developed from some simple actions made by groups and individuals for self-entertainment to complex and exquisite dance works.

? Dancing? The definition of this word is very broad, including both general dance and recognized dance art schools.

Due to the development of history and the changes of human society, people's cognitive activities are deepening day by day, and the dance art that expresses social life naturally develops and changes continuously, and even produces new dance art varieties, forms, styles, schools and characteristics. Broadly speaking, dance can be divided into two categories, namely, life dance and artistic dance.

Life dance refers to the dance that has a direct and close relationship with people's daily life. This dance is open to everyone, regardless of gender, age, civilians or dignitaries. This dance is characterized by simple movements, no superb skills and technical specifications, and no rigorous procedures. On the contrary, dancers dance freely for entertainment and maximum emotional satisfaction. It is a kind of dance with extensive self-entertainment.

Life dance includes social dance, fitness dance, custom dance, sports dance, religious sacrifice dance, war dance and so on. This kind of dance has been preserved and circulated in the lives of people all over the world, and it is an indispensable part of life. As a nation, the customs and cultural traditions of a country have been recorded in history. The activities and places of this kind of dance are mostly chosen because of their different activities.

Artistic dance refers to a dance work in which professional or amateur dancers concentrate, refine and summarize people's social life through observation and experience, and make artistic conception and creation, so that the theme is more vivid, the artistic form is more perfect and the artistic image is more typical. This kind of dance has certain rules, scientific and standardized movements, superb techniques and skills, strong performance and diversity, and is guided by professional dance masters. Performers have to undergo strict selection and strict and systematic training. After careful rehearsal, the program was carried out with the cooperation of stage art, lighting, costumes, makeup and other aspects. It is a dance work performed by a few people in a fixed theater and enjoyed by ordinary audiences.

There are many schools of artistic dance with various forms, styles and characteristics. With the development of society, human beings have a variety of aesthetic needs, and dance creation is more prosperous, innovative and diverse. The purpose of studying and understanding the types of dance is to understand and master the characteristics and laws of various dances, so that dance artists can consciously follow the laws and master the characteristics in the practice of dance art, give full play to the specialties of dance art forms, and promote the more prosperous development of dance art.

Art is presented to the audience in a direct way of image, so dance is a kind of visual art, but when people appreciate dance, although the main basis is visual image, at the same time, they improve the visual image through music and special effects, so that vision and hearing can be combined to form a unified artistic image. Therefore, dance can also be called a comprehensive art combining vision and hearing.

Dance exists in the process of combining time and space, and people also call it a comprehensive art of combining time and space. This classification is closely related to the former, and they are related.

The artistic image of dance is expressed in movement and also moves in time, so dance is not a static art, but a dynamic art. Dance art directly shapes characters through performers' direct emotional expression of dance images, so dance belongs to performance art.

Various art categories are different because they use different artistic expressions to create images and reflect life, so they have different artistic characteristics and artistic laws, which determines the existence of different art categories.