 As larger dance venues became available, styles grew to include more movement of the body and around the dance area.A variety of forms of solo Irish dance have developed which are described as stepdance.These include the well-known "modern" stepdance performed competitively; old-style stepdance, which is closer in style to the dance practised by 19th-century travelling dance masters; and festival dance, which separated from modern stepdance over stylistic and administrative disputes in the mid-20th century.