--- title: Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Dance is moving to music on purpose, and it comes in every size: a fifteen-second phone dance, a breaking battle, an Irish jig, a Ukraini --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet # Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet Lesson 29 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/0/) — Dance is moving to music on purpose, and it comes in every size: a fifteen-second phone dance, a breaking battle, an Irish jig, a Ukrainian hopak or a three-hour ballet. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/1/) — Every generation has its craze dance: your gran may have done the twist in the 1960s, your parents the Macarena in the 1990s, and you learn a new one online in ten minutes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/3/) — The hardest dances, like ballet on the tips of the toes or the big squat-kicks of hopak, need years of training for strength and balance, so dancers build up slowly with a teacher. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/5/) — Short viral dances spread fast online, and every generation has had craze dances, like the twist in the 1960s or the Macarena in the 1990s. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/6/) — Ballet dancers dance en pointe, on the tips of their toes, in special stiff shoes after years of training; teachers wait until feet are strong enough, often around age 11 or 12. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/7/) — Ballet has many famous male dancers, such as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov, and it needs huge strength and athletic skill. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/8/) — Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/9/) — Breaking, or breakdancing, started in New York in the 1970s and was an Olympic sport for the first time at Paris 2024. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/10/) — Breaking was not chosen for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/11/) — In Irish stepdance, competition dancers keep their arms still and move their feet very fast; the show Riverdance made it world famous in 1994. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/12/) — A popular story says Irish dancers kept their arms still to hide dancing from rulers, but historians say there is no evidence for it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/13/) — Almost everyone can learn to dance with practice and by listening for the beat, the steady pulse of the music. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/14/) — Hopak is a lively Ukrainian folk dance with big jumps and squat-kicks, linked to Cossack traditions. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/15/) — Viral dances are made by real people, often young creators, and naming them when you copy their dance is fair. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/16/) — Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, and many dancers are shy off stage. - ← previous: [The school play: auditions, lines, stage fright](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/28-the-school-play-auditions-lines-stage-fright/) - next →: [Dances of the world and dancing at parties](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)