page_title: Ballroom dance
section_title: Movies and television shows
hierarchical_section_title: Ballroom dance / Movies and television shows
caption_attribution_description: The painting depicts the wedding ball of the Duke of Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine, in Paris on 24 September 1581. Joyeuse was the favourite of King Henry III of France, and Marguerite was the sister of Henry's wife, Queen Louise of Lorraine. According to the description of this picture in the 1988 catalogue of the Armada Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, the newlyweds are depicted in the centre; to the left sits Henry III beside Catherine de' Medici and his wife, Queen Louise; behind them stand the dukes of Guise, Mayenne, and d' Epernon (Armada, London: Penguin, 1988, ISBN&#160;0140103015).
context_page_description: Ballroom dance is the name for a number of dances done in ballrooms. It usually means pairs dancing on the same floor as other pairs. The most important difference in style is between the modern or standard dances and the Latin dances. The modern dances are the waltz, quickstep, foxtrot, tango and Viennese waltz. The Latin dances are the cha-cha-cha, samba, rumba, paso doble, and jive. However, there are also sequence dances, where dancers move together in a pre-set pattern.
  All these dances can be danced socially, more or less any way people want to. As competition dances, they are organised under the rule of the World Dance Council. These competitions are danced in the International style; the techniques were developed by English dancers in the 20th century. All major international competitions are conducted under detailed regulations. There are other systems of dance regulated by national bodies. American style is one; Scottish dancing is another; Greek classical dance is another.
  Although the most famous dancers were Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, they did not dance in ballrooms. Their career together was entirely on film. Astaire danced also on the stage, and on television.
caption: The Wedding Ball of the Duc de Joyeuse, 1581.
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