Dance Equipment

To have everything that you need for dance, it is very simple. Unlike many sports, dance does not require a ball, racket, cleats or a bat, but that does not mean that you just show up! You need a specific type of shoe for each kind of dance. You also need the appropriate kind of clothes for each dance. If you are going to do ballet, you would not want to show up in sweat pants and sneakers. you will need to wear a leotard or any kind of tight fitting outfit. Ballet shoes will also be needed. They have a special thing in the front of the toe which allows you to stand/ dance on your toes. This is not an outfit that you would want to wear to tap dance. for tap you need any comfortable outfit and tap shoes with the metal plates on the bottom to cause the actual tap in the tap dance. For jazz, you need to wear pull-on stretch dance boots. They are not actual boots, but they are very light weight shoes allowing you to do jazz dance much easier. In modern dance, ballet, or any other dance you prefer, you may also need foot underwear. It is shaped like mini underwear but it goes around your toes and the ball of your foot to give you extra support and resistance between your foot and the ground, making it less difficult to spin and run during a dance. Out of all of this equipment, the most important is you. You cannot dance without yourself!