List of dances

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This is the main list of dances. It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. There may also be listed dances which could either be considered a specific dance or a family of related dances, depending on your perspective. For example ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be considered a single dance style or a family of related dances. The purpose of the page is to have as complete an index as possible.

Specific dances are listed below in alphabetical order, and only should be listed one time. Variants of a specific dance should be listed as indented items, and not as separate items. For example Waltz has several variants. This makes the list easier to read, and avoids redundant links.

See following for categorized lists:

• List of dance style categories
• List of folk dances sorted by origin
• List of novelty/fad dances

Dances listed on these specialized (categorized) lists should also be included in this general index.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] 1

• 18th century dance

[edit] A

• Aar Oyun (Gagauz)
• Allemande (historical, court, baroque)
• American Tribal Style Belly Dance
• An dro or "En dro" (Brittany, in-round traditional dance)
• Antikrystos (Greece), face-to-face traditional dance
• Arkan (Ukrainian, Hutsul)
• Ara (Kurdish folk dance)
• Avant-deux or "Avant-deux de travers", (Brittany, traditional dance)

[edit] B

• Baba karam (a Persina dance style)
• Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
• Bagiye (Assyria)
• Balboa (Swing)
• Ballet, category, also known as classical dance
• Ballroom dance, category
• Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
• Bandari (South of Iran)
• Barn dance, category
• Baroque dance, category
• Barynya (Russian, folk)
• Basse danse (also Basse-dance, Bassadanse, Bassadanze. French and Italian Renaissance dances)
• Basque dance
• Belly dance
• Beguine, dance of Caribbean origin
• Bereznianka (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia)
• Bergamask (Bergomask) folk dance, from Bergamo, Italy
• Bhangra
• Bharatanatyam
• Big Apple (Line dance)
• Bihu dance
• Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop)
• Blitz (dance) - also known as Blitz Jive, Blitz Modern Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Blues (Club dance, Swing)
• Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European)
• Bomba (African, Caribbean)
• Bon Odori (Japanese)
• Boogaloo
• Boogie-woogie (Swing)
• Bop, see Bop music, also ABA at List of dance organizations
• Bossa Nova (dance) (Brazilian, see Bossa nova music)
• Boston (dance)
• Bourrée (historical)
• Branle (Bransle) (historical)
• Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
• Breakdance
• Bump and grind
• Bunny Hop
• Butoh (Japanese)
• Butterfly (Urban, USA/Carribean)
• Buyo (Japanese)

[edit] C

• Cabbage Patch (Urban, USA)
• Cajun Jig or Cajun One Step (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
• Cajun Jitterbug and Two Step, (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
• Cajun Waltz (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
• Cakewalk
• Canaries dance (historical, Renaissance, court)
• Can-can (Cancan, can can)
• Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazilian)
• Carinosa (dance of love) Philippines
• Carioca
• Carol (Medieval)
• Castle Walk
• Căluş (Romanian ritual dance)
• Céilidh (Ireland and Scotland)
• Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
• Chacarera (Argentina)
• Chaconne
• Cha cha cha or Cha cha (Latin Ballroom Social)
• Chamame (Chamamé, Argentina)
• Charleston
• Chumak (Ukrainian)
• Chasapiko (Greece)
• Cheerleading
• Chicken Dance
• Chodzony (Poland)
• Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
• Circle dance
• Clogging
• Cocek
• Collegiate shag
• Competitive dance
• Conga
• Contact improvisation
• Contemporary dance
• Contra dance
• Cotillion (dance)
• Country/western dance
• Country dancing
• Country/Western Two Step
• Country Swing or Western Swing
• Courante (historical)
• Court dance
• Cross Step Waltz

Crumping

• Cueca (Chile)
• Cumbia (Colombia, Club)
• Csárdás (Folk, Hungarian; also variants in Slovak dances, Rusyn dances, (Ukrainian dances, Lemko dances))

[edit] D

• Dance Dance Revolution
• Dances of Universal Peace
• Dabke (Levatine)
• Dérobée (aka "dérobée de Guingamp", Brittany, traditional dance)
• Disco
• Dragon dance
• Drifter
• Drobushki (Russia)
• Dera gay (Aruba)
• Dubotanets (Ukrainian)
• Dutty Wine - a West Indian, Dancehall-inspired dance

[edit] E

Dance	Type	Origin
East Coast Swing	Swing, American ballroom	United States
Eisa	Folk dance	Okinawa/Ryūkyū
Electric Slide	Line dance	United States
English Country Dance	Folk dance	England
Ethnic dance	-	-

[edit] F

• Fad dance
• Fandango
• Farandole (Provencal)
• Farruca
• Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
• Folk dance
• Formation dance
• Forró (dance from northeast of Brazil)
• Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
• The Freddy
• Frug
• Freak dancing
• Fysouni (Greece)
• Funk Brazil

[edit] G

• Gaida (Greece)
• Galliard
• Galop
• Gankino (Bulgaria)
• Gavotte (Brittany), Gavot (historical)
• Gigue
• Grinding (dance)
• Grizzly Bear
• Guapacha

[edit] H

• Habanera
• Haka (Māori)
• Halay (Turkish, Folk)
• Hanter-dro (Brittany, traditional dance)
• Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
• Hardcore Dancing(Urban American Hardcore)
• Hasapiko (Greece)
• Haytarma (Crimean Tatars)
• Headbanging
• Highland dancing
• Hip hop dance
• Historical dance
• Hitch hike
• Hokey Pokey, also known as Hokey-cokey, Okey-cokey
• Hootchy-Kootchy
• Holubka (Ukrainian, Hutsul, Bukovina, Carpathian Ruthenia)
• Hopak (Ukrainian)
• Hopak-Kolom (Ukrainian)
• Hora (many named versions; folk, Israeli, Romanian, Ukrainian)
• Horan (Crimean Tatars)
• Horon (Turkish, Folk)
• Hornpipe (Ireland)
• Hula
• Hully Gully
• Hustle and its variant, New York Hustle (Club)
  • Latin Hustle
• Humppa (see Music of Finland)
• Hutsulka (Ukrainian, Hutsuls)

[edit] I

• Ice dancing
• Ikariotikos (Greece)
• Intercessory dance
• International folk dance
• Interpretive dance
• Irish dance

[edit] J

• Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
• Jarabe tapatío
• Jazz dance
• Jazzjive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Jenkka (see Music of Finland)
• Jig Ireland
• Jig (Scottish country)
• Jitterbug (Swing)
  • Cajun Jitterbug
• Jitterbug Stroll (Line dance, Swing)
• Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)
• Joged (Indonesian)
• Jota (Spanish dance)
• Jove Malaj Mome (Bulgarian folk dance)

[edit] K

• Kalymnikos (Greece)
• Kamarinskaya (Russia)
• Kandyan Dances (Sri Lanka)
• Karagouna (Greece)
• Karsilama (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece, Gypsy)
• Kastrinos (Greece)
• Kathak (India)
• Kathakali (India, incorporates dance)
• Kaytarma (Crimean Tatars)
• Kazachok (Russia)
• Kerkyraikos (Greece)
• Khasapiko (Greece)
• Kolo (Slavic)
• Khorovod (Russia)
• Kleistos (Greece)
• Koftos (Greece)
• Kolomyjka (Ukrainian)
• Kopanitsa (Bulgaria)
• Kotsari (Greece)
• Kozachok (Ukrainian)
• Krakowiak (Poland)
• Krumping (Western U.S.)
• Kujawiak (Poland)

[edit] L

• Lambada
• Lambeth Walk
• Lancer (Quadrille)
• Landler (Quadrille)
• Laridé or ridée (traditional dance of south Brittany)
• Latin dances
• Lavolta
• leJive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Lerikos (Greece)
• LeRoc (Modern Jive, Club)
• Letkajenkka (also known as Letkajenka, Letkiss, Letka-Enka)
• Leventikos (Greece)
• Limbo (dancers pass under horizontal pole)
• Lindy Chorus (Line dance)
• Lindy Hop (Swing)
• Line dance
• Lion dance
• Long Sword
• Loure (historical)
• Lyrical dance

[edit] M

• Macarena
• Madison (Line dance)
• Malaguena
• Mandra(Mandilatos)(Balkan)
• Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin)
• Mapale
• Marinella (Greece)
• Mashed Potato
• Matachin (Matachines)
• Maypole dance
• Maxixe (Social)
• Mazur (dance) (Poland)
• Mazurka(Poland)
• Medieval dance
• Melbourne Shuffle (Australia)
• Menousis (Greece)
• Merengue (Latin Club)
• Mexican Hat Dance
• Metelytsia ((Ukrainian), khorovod)
• Milonga (see Argentine Tango)
• Minuet
• Mo'jive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Modern dance
• Modern Jive - umbrella term (Club)
• Molly dance
• Mohiniattam
• Monkey
• Morris dance
• Moshing

[edit] N

• Novelty and fad dances
• The Nutbush

[edit] O

• Oberek (also called Obertas or Ober, Poland)
• Odissi (India)
• One Step (Social)

[edit] P

• Pachanga
• Palo de Mayo (Nicaragua), Afro-Caribbean influence, not to be confused with Maypole dance
• Partner dance
• Participation dance
• Passacaglia (Passacaille) (historical)
• Passepied (historical)
• Pasillo
• Paso Doble (Ballroom, International Latin)
• Pavane (historical)
• Peewee style (originated by Pee-Wee Herman in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)
• Pentozalis (Greece)
• Persian dance (Iran).
• Pidikhtos (Greece)
  • Kastrinos Pidikhtos (Greece)
  • Malevyziotiko Pidikhtos (Greece)
• Pendozalis (Greece)
• Pop, Lock, and Drop It (Hip Hop)
• Pogo (A punk dance, consisting of jumping up and down)
• Pogonisios (Greece)
• Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical)
• Polka-mazurka
• Polonaise
• Pony
• Pols (Norvegia, Folk, see Polska)
• Pom Squad
• Polska (pl.: Polskor; Sweden, Folk)
• Prophetic dance
• Pryvit (Ukrainian)
• Punk dance
• Push (Swing, Texas)

[edit] Q

• Qasemabadi (a northern Persian style)
• Quadrille
• Quickstep (Ballroom)

[edit] R

• Rain dancing
• Ramvong (Cambodia)
• Rapper sword
• Raqs Sharqi ("belly dance")
• Rebetiko dances (Greece)
• Redowa
• Reel (Irish and Scottish)
• Regency dance
• Reggae
• Reggaeton
• Renaissance dance
• Rigaudon
• Rock and Roll
  • Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll
• Rouga (Greece)
• Round dance (two kinds: circular chain, couples)
• Rumba (International Ballroom, American Smooth, Folk)
  • Cuban Rumba (Ballroom dance as of the beginning of the century, e.g., "The Peanut Vendor" piece)
  • Rhumba (heavily overlaps with "Rumba", but some insist on distinctions in the usage)

[edit] S

• Salon dance
• Salsa (Latin Club)
• Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round)
• Samba (dance) (Ballroom, International Latin; also Brazilian traditional, see Samba (music))
  • Samba de Gafieira
  • Carnival Samba
• Sarabande (Saraband)
• Sardana (Catalonia)
• Sattriya dance
• Schottische
• Scottish country dance
• Scottish highland dance
• Seguidilla (Spanish, folk)
• Sequence dance
• Serra (Greece)
• Serviko (Serbian)
• Set Dance Ireland
• Sevillana (Spain)
• Shag (Swing)
  • Carolina Shag
  • Collegiate Shag
  • St. Louis Shag
• Shake
• Shim Sham (Line dance)
• Shimmy
• Shuffle
• Siganos (Greece)
• Single Swing
• Single Time Swing
• Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (Greece)
• Skank (dance)
• Skip jive
• Slängpolska (Sweden, Folk, see Polska)
• Slip jig (Ireland)
• Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom)
• Social dance
• Soft Shoe
• Soraya ("Bellydance")
• Sousta (Greece)
  • Bulgarian Sousta (Greece)
  • Cretan Sousta (Greece)
  • Dodecanese Sousta (Greece)
  • Macedonian Sousta (Greece)
• Square dance
  • Traditional square dance
  • Modern Western square dance
• Sta tria (Greece)
• Stage diving
• Step dance Ireland
• Street dance
• Stroll
• Svarniara (Greece)
• Swim
• Swing (both as family of dances and as specific Texas dance)
• Swing Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Swing Roc (Modern Jive, Club)
• Suzie Q
• Syrtos (Syrto) (Greece)
  • Cretan Syrtos (Greece)
  • Kalamatianos Syrtos (Mainland Syrtos) (Greece)
  • Kapoutzidon Syrtos (Greece)
  • Nisiotiko Syrtos (Island Syrtos) (Greece)
  • Silyvriano Syrtos (Greece)

[edit] T

• Table dance
• Tango (Ballroom, Social, Club)
  • Argentine Tango - also known as Tango Argentino (Social)
  • Brazilian Tango - see Maxixe
  • Finnish tango
  • Chinese tango
• Tap dance
• Tap Charleston (see Lindy Hop)
• Tarantella (Italian, folk)
• Texas Tommy (see Lindy Hop)
• Tik (Greece)
• Time Warp
• Tootsee Roll (Urban, USA)
• Tourdion (historical)
• Traditional dance
• Trata (Greece)
• Treedancing (A special way of dancing on technoparades, e.g. loveparade)
• Trepak (Russian, folk)
• Tribal Style Belly Dance
• Troika (Folk, Russian, Cajun)
• Tropotianka (Ukrainian, Rusyn, Carpathian Ruthenia, Bukovina, Hutsuls)
• Tsakonikos (Greece)
• Tsamiko (Greece)
• Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) (Çifte-telli) (Turkish) Greece)(Gypsy)(Arabic)
• Tsirigotikos (Kythiraikos, Bourdaris) (Greece)
• Tsyganochka
• Tumba
• Twist
• Two Step
  • Cajun Two Step
  • Country/western two-step
  • Nightclub two-step - also known as California two-step, abbrn: NC2S
  • Progressive Double Two

[edit] U

• Universal Peace, Dances of
• Ukrainian dance
• Upa or Upa Habanera, claimed by some to be the origin of merengue music and dance.
• Uvyvanets (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia, Rusyns, Lemkos, Hutsuls)

[edit] V

• Vals (Argentina, tango style)
• Verbunkos
• Vesnianka (Ukrainian, a type of khorovod)
• Vintage dance
• Volte (also Volta, La volta, or Lavolta, Renaissance)

Veleta

[edit] W

• Waltz (ballroom, social)
  • Boston (dance)
    • Walking Boston
  • Cajun Waltz
  • Dream Waltz
  • Elizabeth Waltz
  • Cross-step Waltz (Cross Step Waltz)
  • Five-step Waltz (Five Step Waltz)
  • Hesitation Waltz
  • Slow waltz - known as Waltz in ballroom context (ballroom)
  • Viennese Waltz (ballroom, social)
  • Waltz a deux temps (Waltz a deux pas)
• Watusi (fad dance)
• Welly boot dance (Africa)
• West Coast Swing ("WCS"; Swing, United States)
• Western swing (United States)
  • Classic WCS
  • Funky WCS
  • Sophisticated Swing (an older name of WCS)
• Western promenade dance
• Whip (Swing, Texas)
• Worship dance

[edit] Y

• Yablochko (Russian, folk)
• Yerakina (Greece)
• YMCA
• Yakshagana (India, Karnataka)

[edit] Z

• Zapateado (Spain)
• Zeibekiko (also spelled Zeibetiko, Zembetiko, Zebetiko, and Zembekiko; Greece)
• Zeibeks, Teke zortlatması (Turkey)
• Zonaradiko (Thrace)
• Zorba's dance (of Greek origin)
• Zouk (Caribbean)
• Zydeco (Louisiana, U.S.)

[edit] See also

• Dance basic topics, a list of general dance topics
• List of songs inspired by dance moves

[edit] External links

• Streetswing.com's Dance History Archives hosts a large information base about nearly a thousand dances.