Ballet is an academic dance form and technique that is taught according to specific methods. It’s origins stem from as far back as the late 1400’s.

Ballet helps channel energy constructively, discipline learned during ballet training can be applied to other ares of life, school or work. It improves posture, coordination, rhythm and memory. Ballet also teached a healthy respect for ones body and mind.

Ballet is best known for its unique features and techniques, such as pointe work, turn-out of the legs; its graceful, flowing, precise movements; and its ethereal qualities.

Tap began in the 1925 as a lively and rhythmic dance style. Tap makes the performer not just a dancer, but also a percussive musician. It uses precise rhythmical patterns of foot movement.

Common tap steps include the shuffle, shuffle ball change, flap, flap heel, cramp roll, buffalo, Maxie Ford, time steps, pullbacks, wings, cincinnati, the shim sham shimmy, Irish, Waltz Clog, shuffle hop step, running flaps, running shuffles, sugar, and the paddle and roll.

Hip Hop styles or Hip Hop dance refer to dance styles that are primarily danced to Hip Hop music. More specifically they can be used for a group of street dance styles that originated in California in the 1970s, mainly locking, popping and related styles. Though many of these specific dance styles have today been incorporated into the hip hop culture to some extent, and are often seen danced to hip hop music and electronica, they were originally and are still commonly danced to funk music. Hip Hop dancing can be seen in most modern music videos.

Highland dancing is a highly competitive and technical dance form which requires many hours of practice and training over a period of several years to perfect. In terms of its technical requirements and the training required for its performance, Highland dancing has much in common with ballet.

Highland dancing should not be confused with Scottish country dancing which is both a social dance (that is, a dance which is danced with a partner or partners) like ballroom dancing, and a formation dance (that is, a dance in which an important element is the pattern of group movement about the dance floor) like square dancing.
Some Highland dances do derive from traditional social dances, however. An example is the Highland Reel, also known as the Foursome Reel, in which groups of four dancers alternate between solo steps facing one another and a figure-of-eight style with intertwining progressive movement. Even so, in competitions, the Highland Reel dancers are judged individually.

Cheerleading is a sport that uses organized routines made from elements of tumbling, dance, and stunting to direct the event's spectators to cheer on sports teams at games and matches and/or compete at cheerleading competitions. The athlete involved is called a cheerleader. The growing presentation of the sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.