Since then it has become an important part in the Australian and New Zealand ballroom scene, holding as much importance in social and competition dancing as Latin or International Standard dances.
There are a large number of New Vogue dances, although only a handful are common.
Due to the nature of the dances they are much easier to pick up by beginners than, say, Latin dances (which have numerous types of steps that are combined into custom routines) and as such, beginner dancers are less likely to feel overwhelmed when learning them and can perform the dances to a respectable level within a short time of learning.
This in a nutshell makes the dances easy to pick up but hard to master.
The New Vogue Dances are competed in all DanceSport divisions including: