Q 01/05

Which partner dance was born in the 1880s in port areas along the Río de la Plata?

A) Tango

B) Samba

C) Rumba

D) Merengue

Answer · why

A) Tango

Argentina and Uruguay jointly got the dance added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2009.

Q 02/05

Ballet originated during the Renaissance of the fifteenth century in which country?

A) France

B) Italy

C) Russia

D) Spain

Answer · why

B) Italy

It was later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia, which is why its vocabulary is French.

Q 03/05

The waltz is danced in which time signature?

A) 2/4

B) 4/4

C) 3/4

D) 6/8

Answer · why

C) 3/4

The name comes from the German Walzer, meaning to roll or revolve, and the dance shocked 18th-century society because couples held each other so close...

Q 04/05

Which singer made the moonwalk famous during "Billie Jean" on Motown 25 in 1983?

A) Bobby Brown

B) Lionel Richie

C) Stevie Wonder

D) Michael Jackson

Answer · why

D) Michael Jackson

The move existed for decades before that night; California dancers called it the backslide, tap dancers called it a skate and Marcel Marceau called it...

Q 05/05

Breaking (breakdancing) made its debut as an Olympic sport at which Games?

A) Paris 2024

B) Tokyo 2020

C) Rio 2016

D) London 2012

Answer · why

A) Paris 2024

The IOC approved it in December 2020 after a proposal by the World DanceSport Federation; many practitioners prefer the term breaking, seeing 'breakda...