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Dancing holidays are perfect for both young and old people who want to enjoy a relaxing holiday with a few active days. They are great if you are travelling as a couple, or with a bunch of friends or family. After all, learning new skills together is a great way to bond with everyone. Dancing holidays combine all the perks of staying in a hotel and enjoying all the facilities as well as learning something new which will literally keep you on your toes!

The craze for dancing started with TV shows such as -Strictly’ a few years back, followed by -So You Think You Can Dance’, -Dancing with the Stars’ and -Got to Dance’. Somehow all these shows have got everyone – from young children to old grandparents – tapping their feet and itching to move their bodies. This has gotten more people to start dancing classes, take to the floor, step out in confidence and dance away.

In keeping with the dance fervour, several hotels and companies have capitalised on staging dancing holidays. This means that you will be staying in a high standard hotel with full room and board facilities. The hotel will provide dance workshops where the finer points of dance routines will be demonstrated and taught by experts. During the day, excursions to places of interest outside the hotel can be arranged, whilst dancing practices will be scheduled at night. This way, even if certain members of your family or group of friends do not wish to dance, they can still enjoy the holiday by using other hotel facilities.

Dancing holidays cater to beginners and improvers and include several types of dance routines such as the tango, ballroom dancing, waltz, foxtrot, quickstep, samba, cha cha and jive. Also, other types of dancing such as line dancing, Scottish dancing and sequence dancing are also available on most dancing holidays. Not only are dancing holidays fun and enjoyable – they are also great for health! There are several health benefits of dancing – you can burn off extra calories, tone muscles as well as relieve stress. Dancing can also help reduce the risk of heart disease and lowers blood pressure as well as helps keep your weight down too.

Dancing holidays are fun, healthy and perfect for families, friends and couples. There are several hotels in UK that offer dancing holiday packages; Find more information at -TLH-.

There a number of dance styles that is accompanied with or without music, some are collaborative and indeed the accompanying sounds are produced by the dance participants. Dance has in certain cultures been thought of as an art form, whilst others tend to liken dance to a physical workout or view it as part of a ceremony.

Whatever form it has been viewed in, dance has formed an important aspect of different cultures since the earliest recorded activities of human civilization – forming integral parts of ceremony, rituals, celebration or general entertainment. It is hard to be certain of when the notion of dance was conceived, but prehistoric cave paintings have been uncovered that appear to depict a type of dance amongst the characters in the painting.

One can easily draw comparisons between complex animal movements or animal mating rituals (such as a bee dance or the mating dance of a bird) and human dance forms. In human culture dance forms part of social expression and interaction it has been described as a nonverbal form of communication between people. Dance can be performed in a variety of context whether social, cultural, aesthetic, or artistic, this will define its meaning and because there are a wide variety of dance styles it can be ‘performed’ individually, with a dance partner or in a larger group.

A very recent dance phenomena known as a Flash Mob is a dance staged by a large group of people in an open public space for a short period of time to the amusement of startled onlookers. These dance events are organised using public spaces and social networking sites to generate participant interests, it appears to have caught the imagination of advertising agencies who have used flash mob features in ad campaigns.

Competitive dancing can include jazz, hip-hop, lyrical and tap dancing (providing the perfect platform for tap shoes), whereas Dancesport although a competitive dance focuses on ballroom and Latin dancing. The popularity of competitive dancing has seen a number of television programs with a central dance theme such as ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ in the UK and ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ in America.