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:
Dances listed on these specialized (categorized) lists should also be included in this general index.
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A
- Aar Oyun(Gagauz)
- Allemande (historical, court, baroque)
- American Tribal Style Belly Dance
- Antikrystos (Greece), face-to-face traditional dance
- Arkan (Ukrainian, Hutsul)
ara kurdish folk dance groupara artistic and cultural group
B
- Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
- Bagiye (Assyria)
- Balboa (Swing)
- Ballet, category, also known as classical dance
- Ballroom dance, category
- Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
- Barn dance, category
- Baroque dance, category
- Barynya (Russian, folk)
- Basse danse (also Basse-dance, Bassadanse, Bassadanze. French and Italian Renaissance dances)
- Bellydance ("Soraya")
- Beguine (dance), 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)
- Bouree (Bourree) (historical)
- Branle (Bransle) (historical)
- Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
- Breakdancing
- Bunny Hop
- Butoh (Japanese)
- Buyo (Japanese)
C
- Cajun Jig or Cajun One Step (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
- Cajun Two Step (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
- Cajun Jitterbug (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)
- Carioca
- Carol (Medieval)
- Castle Walk
- Céilí (Ireland)
- Ceilidh (Scotland)
- Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
- Chacarera (Argentina)
- Chaconne
- Cha cha - also known as Cha cha cha (Latin Ballroom Social)
- Chamame (Chamamé, Argentina)
- Charleston
- Chumak (Ukrainian)
- Chasapiko (Greece)
- Cheerleading
- Chicken Dance
- Chodzony (Poland)
- Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
- Circle dance
- Clogging
- Collegiate Shag
- Competitive dance
- Conga
- Contact improvisation
- Contemporary dance
- Contradance
- Cotillion (dance)
- Country and Western dance
- Country dance
- Country/Western Two Step
- Country/Western Swing (Country Swing)
- Courante (historical)
- Court dance
- Cross Step Waltz
- Cueca (Chile)
- Cumbia (Latin, Club)
- Czardas, Csardas (Folk, Hungarian; also variants in Slovak dances, Rusyn dances, (Ukrainian dances, Lemko dances))
D
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Dabke (Levatine)
- Disco
- Dragon dance
- Drifter
- Drobushki
- Dera gay (Aruba)
- Dubotanets (Ukrainian)
E
- East Coast Swing (Swing, American Ballroom) abbrn: ECS
- Eisa (Okinawa/Ryukyu)
- Electric Slide
- English Country Dance
- Ethnic dance
F
- Fad dance
- Fandango
- Farandole (Provencal)
- Farruca
- Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
- Folk dance
- Formation dance
- Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
- The Freddy
- Frug
- Freak dancing
- Fysouni (Greece)
G
H
- Habanera
- Haka (Māori)
- Halay (Turkish, Folk)
- Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
- 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 (Club)
- Humppa (see Music of Finland)
- Hutsulka (Ukrainian, Hutsuls)
I
- Ice dancing
- Ikariotikos (Greece)
- Intercessory dance
- International folk dance
- Interpretive dance
- Irish Dance
- I trata mas i kourelou
J
- Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
- Jazz Dance
- Jazzjive (Modern Jive, Club)
- Jenkka (see Music of Finland)
- Jig Ireland
- Jig (Scottish country)
- Jitterbug (Swing)
- Jitterbug stroll (Line dance, Swing)
- Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)
- Joged (Indonesian}
- Jota (Spanish dance)
K
- Kalymnikos (Greece)
- Kamarinskaya (Russian)
- Karagouna (Greece)
- Karsilamas(Karsilama) (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece)(Gypsy)
- Kastrinos (Greece)
- Kathak (India)
- Kathakali (India, incorporates dance)
- Kaytarma (Crimean Tatars)
- Kazachok (Russian folk dance)
- Kerkyraikos (Greece)
- Khasapiko (Greece)
- Kolo ring-of-dancers folk dance of various Slavic peoples
- Khorovod(Folk, Russian)
- Kleistos (Greece)
- Koftos (Greece)
- Kolomyjka (Ukrainian)
- Kotsari (Greece)
- Kozachok (Ukrainian)
- Krakowiak (Poland)
- Krumping (Western USA)
- Kujawiak (Poland)
L
- Lambada
- Lambeth Walk
- Lancer (Quadrille)
- Landler (Quadrille)
- 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)
M
- Macarena
- Madison (Line dance)
- Malaguena
- Mandra(Mandilatos)(Balkan)
- Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin)
- Marinella (Greece)
- Mashed Potato
- Matachin (Matachines)
- Maypole dance
- Maxixe (Social)
- Mazur (dance) (Poland)
- Mazurka(Poland)
- Medieval dance
- 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
N
O
P
- Pachanga
- 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)
- Pidikhtos (Greece)
- Pendozalis (Greece)
- 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)
Q
R
- Ramvong (Cambodia)
- Rapper sword
- Raqs Sharqi ("belly dance")
- Rebetiko dances (Greece)
- Redowa
- Reel (Irish)
- Reel (Scottish)
- Regency dance
- Reggae
- Reggaeton
- Renaissance dance
- Rigaudon
- Rock and 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)
- Traditional Russian Dance
- Russian Folk Dance
S
- Salon dance
- Salsa (Latin Club)
- Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round)
- Samba (dance) (Ballroom, International Latin; also Brazilian traditional, see Samba (music))
- 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)
- Shake
- Shaykhane (Assyria)
- 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)
- 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)
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
- 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
U
- Universal Peace, Dances of
- Ukrainian dance
- Upa, Upa Habanera, claimed by some to be the origin of merengue (music) and Merengue (dance).
- Uvyvanets (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia, Rusyns, Lemkos, Hutsuls)
V
- Vals (social)
- Verbunkos
- Vesnianka (Ukrainian, khorovod)
- Vintage dance
- Volte, Volta, La volta, Lavolta (historical)
W
- Waltz (ballroom, social)
- Boston (dance)
- 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
- Welly boot dance
- West Coast Swing (swing) abbrn: WCS
- Western Swing
- Classic WCS
- Funky WCS
- Sophisticated Swing (an older name of WCS)
- Western promenade dances
- Whip (Swing), (Texas)
- Worship dance
Y
Z
- Zapateado
- Zeibekiko (Zeibetiko, Zembetiko, Zebetiko, Zembekiko) (Greece)
- Zeybek,Teke zortlatması(Turkey)
- Zonaradiko (Greece)
- Zorba dance (Greece)
- Zouk
- Zydeco (Louisiana, USA Regional)
See also
- Dance basic topics, a list of general dance topics
- List of songs inspired by dance moves
External links
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