This is a list of dances grouped by ethnicity, country, or region. These dances should also be listed on the general, noncategorized index list of specific dances.
Albania
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Dance of Osman Taka
The Dance of Osman Taka ( sq, Vallja Çame e Osman Takës); el, Οσμαντάκας or Σαμαντάκας) is a traditional dance in Albania and Greece. In Albania it is mainly danced by Cham Albanians. The dance bears the name of Osman Taka, ...
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Entarisi ala benziyor
Entarisi ala benziyor ( tr, Entarisi ala benziyor),( el, Αραμπάς περνά(Arabas perna)),( el, Δημητρούλα μου(Dimitrula mou)),( el, Το Μαρουλιώ(Maroulio)),( sq, Lule malësore),( hy, Aman Ağavni ) is a form of the ...
Napoloni
Napoloni is an Albanian dance
The following is an incomplete list of traditional dances in Albanian culture, because each region has its own dances:
Traditional Albanian clothing, dances, and folklore are showcased in several festivals in ...
Shota (dance)
Shota (or Shotë) is an Albanian dance very popular in Albania and Kosovo. It involves synchronised steps, and a strong rhythm. It is commonly played at weddings, folk festivals and other events.
During the 20s century this dance was performed ...
Cumbia Villera
Cumbia villera ( or ) (roughly translated as "slum cumbia", "ghetto cumbia", or " shantytown cumbia") is a subgenre of cumbia music originating in Argentina in the late 1990s and popularized all over Latin America and Latin communities abroad.
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Tango
Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...
Entarisi ala benziyor
Entarisi ala benziyor ( tr, Entarisi ala benziyor),( el, Αραμπάς περνά(Arabas perna)),( el, Δημητρούλα μου(Dimitrula mou)),( el, Το Μαρουλιώ(Maroulio)),( sq, Lule malësore),( hy, Aman Ağavni ) is a form of the ...
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Kochari
Kochari (, , , , ) is a folk dance originating in the Armenian Highlands. It is performed today by Armenians, while variants are performed by Assyrians, Azerbaijanis (yalli, uchayag, and tello), Kurds (dilan, delîlo, and sêxanî), and Pontic ...
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Shalakho
Shalakho ( hy, շալախո, , ka, შალახო or ) is a dance famous throughout all of Caucasus.
Performance
In a broadly spread version, two men dance in order to win the favour of a woman. The dance can be performed by one or more dan ...
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Tamzara
Tamzara ( hy, Թամզարա, translit=T'amzara; aii, ܬܢܙܪܐ, translit=Tanzara; az, Tənzərə; el, Τάμσαρα, translit=Támsara; tr, Tamzara) is a folk dance native to Armenian Highlands. It is today performed by Armenians, Assyria ...
Yarkhushta
Yarkhushta ( hy, Յարխուշտա (modern orthography) or Եարխուշտայ (classical/traditional orthography), ) is an Armenian folk and martial dance associated with the highlands of the historical region of Sasun in Western Armenia. Yar ...
Austria
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Ländler
The Ländler () is a folk dance in time which was popular in Austria, Bavaria, German Switzerland, and Slovenia at the end of the 18th century.
It is a partner dance which strongly features hopping and stamping. It might be purely instrumen ...
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Schuhplattler
The Schuhplattler is a traditional style of folk dance popular in the regions of Bavaria and Tyrol (southern Germany, Austria and the German speaking regions of northern Italy). In this dance, the performers stomp, clap and strike the soles of the ...
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Tyrolienne The tyrolienne is a Tyrolean folk dance.Tyroliennes at IMSLP. Additionally, it is the
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Waltz
The waltz ( ), meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple ( time), performed primarily in closed position.
History
There are many references to a sliding or gliding dance that would evolve into the wa ...
Azerbaijan
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Abayı Abayi ( az, Abayı) is an Azerbaijani dance with its origins in the Shaki and Zaqatala regions of Azerbaijan. The subject matter of the dance is middle age
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximat ...
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Agir Karadagi
Agir Karadagi ( az, Ağır Qaradağı - meaning ''heavy Karadakhi'') is Azerbaijani melody of a dance that is created in Karadakh.
It is very popular in the cities Shaki and Zaqatala in northwestern Azerbaijan
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Asma kasma
Azerbaijani dances ( az, Azərbaycan Rəqsləri) are traditional dances developed and performed in the Republic of Azerbaijan. These dances are known for their quick tempo and the dancers' traditional clothing.
Examples of dances in Azerbai ...
Halay
Halay is the national dance of Turkey and a regional category of folk dance styles in central, southern, eastern, and southeastern regions of the country. It is mainly performed by Turks, Arabs, and Kurds in Turkey. Halay and similar dances are ...
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Innaby Innaby ( az, İnnabı) is an Azerbaijani national dance in 6/8 time. Young women and girls perform the dance at parties, weddings and holidays. It is often accompanied by a musical ensemble of sazandars consisting of folk musical instruments such ...
Shalakho
Shalakho ( hy, շալախո, , ka, შალახო or ) is a dance famous throughout all of Caucasus.
Performance
In a broadly spread version, two men dance in order to win the favour of a woman. The dance can be performed by one or more dan ...
Karahod
The khorovod or horovod ( rus, хорово́д, p=xərɐˈvot, uk, хоровод, translit=khorovod or uk, коло, translit=kolo, label=none, be, карагод , bg, хоро, pl, korowód) is an East Slavic and pagan art form and on ...
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Khorovod
The khorovod or horovod ( rus, хорово́д, p=xərɐˈvot, uk, хоровод, translit=khorovod or uk, коло, translit=kolo, label=none, be, карагод , bg, хоро, pl, korowód) is an East Slavs, East Slavic and pagan art ...
Awki awki Awki awki ( Aymara ''awki'' father / gentleman, the reduplication signifies that there is a group of something) is a folk dance performed in the La Paz Department of Bolivia and in the Huancané Province of Peru
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Caporales
The Caporales is a traditional Andean dance originated in Los Yungas of La Paz. Caporales were created and presented to the public for the first time in 1969 by the Estrada Pacheco brothers, who were inspired in the character of the 'Caporal' who ...
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Diablada
The Diablada, also known as the Danza de los Diablos ( en, Dance of the Devils), is an Andean folk dance performed in the Altiplano region of South America, characterized by performers wearing masks and costumes representing the devil and other ...
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Kullawada
The Kullawada, kullahuada, cullaguada or kullawa is a dance practiced in Bolivia and Peru and there is controversy about the origin of the dance between Bolivia and Peru. The name of the dance derives from the word ''kullawa'' ("sister" in English ...
Morenada
The Morenada is an Andean folk dance whose origins are still under debate. This dance is practiced mainly in Bolivia as well as in Peru and in recent years with Bolivian immigration in Chile, Argentina and other countries.
Morenada is one of th ...
P'aquchi
P'aquchi (Aymara) see: ''Danza estilizada de esgrima de la época colonial ... .'' - ''P'aquchi'' is a Bolivian folk dance. It is a satire of the fencing of the Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance ethnic group native to Spai ...
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Siklla Siklla (Quechua language, Quechua for a type of plants with blue blossoms / fine-looking, elegant, beautiful, proud),Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish ...
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Tobas
The folkloric dance of the Tobas speaks of the ancient past of Bolivia. It has roots in a time when the Incas were the predominant force in the Andean highlands region. Tobas is an athletic dance comprising agile steps accentuated with many jumps ...
Brazilian Zouk
Brazilian Zouk is a partner dance which began in Brazil during the early 1990s. Brazilian Zouk evolved from the partner dance known as the Lambada. As the Lambada music genre went out of fashion, Lambada dancers turned to Caribbean Zouk (from th ...
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Carimbó
Carimbó is a Brazilian dance. The dance was common in the north part of Brazil, from the time that Brazil was still a Portuguese colony, originally from the Brazilian region of Pará, around Marajó island and the capital city of Belém.
Carimb ...
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Frevo
Frevo is a dance and musical style originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. The word ''frevo'' is said to come from ''frever'', a variant of the Portuguese word ''ferver'' (to boil). It is sa ...
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Lambada
Lambada () is a dance from State of Pará, Brazil. The dance became internationally popular in the 1980s, especially in the Philippines, Latin America and Caribbean countries. It has adopted aspects of dances such as forró, salsa, merengue, m ...
Samba
Samba (), also known as samba urbano carioca (''urban Carioca samba'') or simply samba carioca (''Carioca samba''), is a Brazilian music genre that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Havin ...
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Samba de Gafieira Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms. Unlike street and club forms of Brazilian samba, it evolved as a ballroom dance (''dança de salão'', literally, "salon dance").
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Suscia
Suscia (or Sussa, Suça, Súcia, Sussia) is a folk dance from the state of Tocantins in Brazil. It is most predominant in cities like Peixe, Natividade, Tocantins, Natividade and Arrais. The exact name of the dance is unknown, as every community h ...
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Xaxado The xaxado () is a popular dance created in the Sertão of Pernambuco state, Brazil. It was often practiced by '' cangaceiros'' of the region to commemorate victory in battle; it is also practiced as a traditional dance by the local population as a ...
Brittany
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An Dro
An dro or ''en dro'' (Breton: "The Turn") is a Breton folk dance in . It is a form of a circle dance.
Technique
The dancers link little fingers in a long line, swinging their arms, and moving to their left by taking longer steps in that directi ...
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Gavotte
The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated, according to one source. Ac ...
Kopanitsa Kopanitsa or kopanica (called in some regions Gankino) is the name for a family of lively folk dances from western Bulgaria done to music in meter, and also sometimes for the accompanying music. Some sources describe the rhythm in terms of "quick" ...
Pravo Pravo horo ( bg, Право хоро, lit=straight dance) is a very popular, simple folk dance from Bulgaria that is done throughout the Balkan countries. In Greece it is called Zonaradiko. It is considered the "national dance" of Bulgaria, Albani ...
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Sadi Moma
Sadi Moma ("A Girl Plants") is a Bulgarian folk song. The song, like many Bulgarian and other traditional Eastern European folk songs, is in an uneven meter: 7/8, counted as slow-quick-quick (SQQ).
There is a Bulgarian folk dance traditionally a ...
Yove male mome
Yove male mome ( bg, Йове мале моме; Jove male mome, Jove malaj mome, "Jova, little girl"), also called Povela e Yova (Повела е Йова), is a fast Bulgarian folk dance. It is done to a = compound meter with alternating (sub- ...
Chhayam Chhayam ( km, ឆៃយ៉ាំ) is a traditional Khmer musical dance.
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Peacock dance
The peacock dance or peafowl dance is a traditional Asian folk dance that describes the beauty and the movement of peacocks. There are several peacock dance traditions developed in Asia, among others are peacock dances of Myanmar, and in the we ...
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Ramvong
''Romvong'' ( km, រាំវង់, also romanized as ''Rom Vong'' or ''Roam Vong''), ''Lamvong'' ( Lao: ລຳວົງ - lám wóŋ) or ''Ramwong'' ( th, รำวง; ; Tai Lue: ᩃ᪁ ᩴᩅ ᩫ ᩬ, ), ''Rambung'' ( ms, رمبوڠ, vi, l ...
Sardana
The ''sardana'' (; plural ''sardanes'' in Catalan) is a Catalan musical genre typical of Catalan culture and danced in circle following a set of steps. The dance was originally from the Empordà region, but started gaining popularity throughou ...
China
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Dragon dance
Dragon dance () is a form of traditional dance and performance in Chinese culture. Like the lion dance, it is most often seen during festive celebrations. The dance is performed by a team of experienced dancers who manipulate a long flexible ...
Errenzhuan
''Errenzhuan'' or two-people rotation () is a genre of local folk dance and song from Northeast China, usually involving two performers (one male and one female). The dance uses folded fans or square-shaped red handkerchiefs, which are twirled as ...
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Lion dance F
Lion dance () is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion's movements in a lion costume to bring good luck and fortune. The lion dance is usually performed during the Chinese New ...
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Yangge
Yangge () is a form of Chinese folk dance developed from a dance known in the Song dynasty as Village Music (). It is very popular in northern China and is one of the most representative form of folk arts. It is popular in both the countryside and ...
Cumbia
Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans during colonial times, and Europeans. Examples include:
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Moreška
Moreška is a traditional sword dance from the town of Korčula, on the Croatian island of the same name in the Adriatic. Dating back hundreds of years, the Moreška is an elaborate production involving two groups of dancers, engaging in a mock b ...
Cuban rumba
Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and Matanzas, during the late 19th century. It is based on African music and dance traditions, ...
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Danzón
Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba.Urfé, Odilio 1965. ''El danzón''. La Habana. It is also an active musical form in Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Written in time, the danzón is a slow, formal partner dance, requiring se ...
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Juego de maní ('game of war') often simply called or , sometimes referred to as ('dance of war') or , is a combined martial art and dance that was developed in Cuba by Atlantic slave trade, African slaves. It has its roots in the Kongo people, Kongo-Angola cul ...
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Mambo
Mambo most often refers to:
* Mambo (music), a Cuban musical form
*Mambo (dance), a dance corresponding to mambo music
Mambo may also refer to:
Music
* Mambo section, a section in arrangements of some types of Afro-Caribbean music, particul ...
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Tumba francesa
Tumba francesa is a secular Afro-Cuban genre of dance, song, and drumming that emerged in Oriente, Cuba. It was introduced by slaves from the French colony of Saint-Domingue (which would later become the nation of Haiti) whose owners resettled ...
Cyprus
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Antikristos
Antikristos or Antikrystós ( el, αντικρυστός χορός) is a dance of Greek origin. “Aντικρυστός” in Greek language refers to the verb αντικρύζω “be across, opposite, face-to-face” (from Ancient Greek ἀ ...
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Kalamatianos
The Kalamatianós ( el, Καλαματιανός) is one of the best known dances of Greece. It is a popular Greek folkdance throughout Greece, Cyprus and internationally and is often performed at many social gatherings worldwide. As is the ca ...
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Sousta
Sousta ( gr, Σούστα, links=no) is a Greek folk dance, performed at weddings as an activity of courtship between husband and wife. It originates from Ancient Greece, and holds prominence in Dodecanese Islands, and broader Aegean region. It ...
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Syrtos
Syrtos ( el, συρτός, ''syrtos'' (also ''sirtos''); plural , ''syrtoi'' (also ''sirtoi''); sometimes called in English using the Greek accusative forms ''syrto'' (also ''sirto''); from the el, links=no, σύρω, ''syro'' (also ''siro''), ...
Furiant
A furiant is a rapid and fiery Bohemian dance in alternating 2/4 and 3/4 time, with frequently shifting accents; or, in "art music", in 3/4 time "with strong accents forming pairs of beats".
The stylised form of the dance was often used by Czech ...
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Polka
Polka is a dance and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though associated with Czech culture, polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas.
History
Etymology
The term ...
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Redowa
A redowa () is a dance of Czech origin with turning, leaping waltz steps that was popular in European ballrooms.
History
The name comes from the Czech name rejdovák, derived from ''rej'' ("whirl"). Originally a folk dance, it first appeared into ...
Gammaldans
Gammaldans (Swedish) or Gammeldans (Danish and Norwegian) (literally "old dance") is a small set of Nordic dances that became broadly popular in the late 19th century. These were also the dances of the Nordic immigrant communities in the United ...
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Les Lanciers
Les Lanciers or The Lancers is a square dance, a variant of the Quadrille, a set dance performed by four couples, particularly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a composite dance made up of five figures or ''tours'', each performed four ...
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Polska
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
Baladi
Baladi ( ar, بلدي ' relative-adjective 'of town', 'local', 'rural', comparable to English ''folk'', with a lower-class connotation) can refer to an Egyptian musical style, the folk style of Egyptian bellydance (Raqs Baladi), or the Masmoud ...
Tahtib
Tahtib ( arz, تحطيب, taḥṭīb) is the term for a traditional stick-fighting martial art originally named ''fan a'nazaha wa-tahtib'' ("the art of being straight and honest through the use of stick"). The original martial version of tahtib ...
Border
Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political borders c ...
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Clog
Clogs are a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood. Used in many parts of the world, their forms can vary by culture, but often remained unchanged for centuries within a culture.
Traditional clogs remain in use as protective f ...
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Maypole
A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place.
The festivals may occur on 1 May or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in some countries it is instead erected at ...
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Morris dance
Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, usually wearing bell pads on their shins. Implements such as sticks, swords and handkerchiefs may ...
(longstanding tradition; technically of Continental origins)
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Rapper Sword
Rapper sword (also known as short sword dance) is a variation of sword dance unique to Northumberland and County Durham. It emerged from the pit villages of Tyneside and Wearside, where miners first performed the tradition.
The dance requir ...
Ethiopia
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Eskista
Eskista (Amharic: እስክስታ) is a traditional Ethiopian cultural dance from the Amhara people, Amhara ethnic group performed by Men, men, Woman, women, and Children, children. It's known for its unique emphasis on intense shoulder movement ...
Finland
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Finnish tango Finnish tango ( fi, suomalainen tango), or FINtango, music is an established variation of the Argentine tango but whose rhythm follows the Ballroom tango. It was one of the most popular music forms for decades in Finland. Brought to Europe in the 19 ...
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Humppa
Humppa is a type of music from Finland. It is related to jazz and very fast foxtrot, played two beats to a bar ( or ). Typical speed is about 220 to 260 beats per minute. Humppa is also the name of a few social dances danced to humppa music. A ...
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Jenkka
Jenkka () is a fast Finnish partner dance found in Finnish folk dance, the Finnish version of the schottische. It is danced to music in or time signature, with about 140 beats per minute.
Men and women do similar steps. The initial dance po ...
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Letkajenkka
Letkajenkka, also known as Letkajenkaa in English and many other languages, is a Finnish dance.
History of the music genre letkajenkka/letkis
Letkajenkka / letkis is a music genre and a general noun as well as two songs by the same name ("Letka ...
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Polska
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
France
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Bal-musette Bal-musette is a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Although it began with bagpipes as the main instrument, this instrument was replaced with accordion, on which a variety of waltzes, polkas ...
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Branle
A branle (, ), also bransle, brangle, brawl, brawle, brall(e), braul(e), brando (in Italy), bran (in Spain), or brantle (in Scotland), is a type of French dance popular from the early 16th century to the present, danced by couples in either a li ...
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Bourrée
The bourrée ( oc, borrèia; also in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it. The bourrée resembles the gavotte in that it is in double time and often has a dactylic rhythm. However, it i ...
Farandole
The Farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in Provence, France. The Farandole bears similarities to the gavotte, jig, and tarantella. The carmagnole of the French Revolution is a derivative.
Traditional dance
The farandole is consi ...
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Gavotte
The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated, according to one source. Ac ...
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Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...
Menuet
A minuet (; also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in time. The English word was adapted from the Italian ''minuetto'' and the French ''menuet''.
The term also describes the musical form that accompa ...
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Passepied
The passepied (, "pass-foot", from a characteristic dance step) is a French court dance. Originating as a kind of Breton branle, it was adapted to courtly use in the 16th century and is found frequently in 18th-century French opera and ballet ...
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Rigaudon
The rigaudon (also spelled rigadon, rigadoon) is a French baroque dance with a lively duple metre. The music is similar to that of a bourrée, but the rigaudon is rhythmically simpler with regular phrases (eight measure phrases are most common) ...
Muiñeira
The muiñeira ( Galician: ''muiñeira'', Castilian: ''muñeira'') is a traditional dance and musical genre of Galicia (Spain). It is distinguished mainly by its expressive and lively tempo, played usually in , although some variants are perfor ...
Kartuli
Georgian (, , ) is the most widely-spoken Kartvelian language, and serves as the literary language or lingua franca for speakers of related languages. It is the official language of Georgia and the native or primary language of 87.6% of its po ...
Khorumi
The Khorumi ( ka, ხორუმი) is a war dance that originated in the region of Guria/Adjara, which is located in the southwestern region of Georgia. The dance was originally performed by only a few men. However, over time it has grown in ...
Perkhuli Perkhuli ( ka, ფერხული) is a Georgian predominantly male folk round dance. Of at least 20 versions of the dance, "multi-level" perkhuli is one of the most popular forms, performed by a group of dancers standing on the other group's s ...
Maypole
A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place.
The festivals may occur on 1 May or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in some countries it is instead erected at ...
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Schuhplattler
The Schuhplattler is a traditional style of folk dance popular in the regions of Bavaria and Tyrol (southern Germany, Austria and the German speaking regions of northern Italy). In this dance, the performers stomp, clap and strike the soles of the ...
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Waltz
The waltz ( ), meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple ( time), performed primarily in closed position.
History
There are many references to a sliding or gliding dance that would evolve into the wa ...
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Zwiefacher
The Zwiefacher () is a Southern Germany, southern German folk dance with a quick tempo and changing beat patterns.
Location
The Zwiefacher is danced primarily in Bavaria, especially Lower Bavaria, Hallertau, and Upper Palatinate; it is also know ...
Greece
The following is a list with the most notable dances. Names of many Greek dances may be found spelt either ending with -o or with -os. This is due to the fact that the word for "dance" in
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
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is a masculine noun, while the dance itself can also be referred to by a neuter
adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated ) is a word that generally grammatical modifier, modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.
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used substantively. Thus one may find both "hasapiko" ("the butcher thing") and "hasapikos (horos)" - "the butcher (dance)."
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Antikrystos
Antikristos or Antikrystós ( el, αντικρυστός χορός) is a dance of Greek origin. “Aντικρυστός” in Greek language refers to the verb αντικρύζω “be across, opposite, face-to-face” (from Ancient Greek ἀ ...
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Antipatitis
Antipatitis ( el, αντιπατητής) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Greek island Karpathos, Greece.
See also
*Music of Greece
*Greek dances
Greek dance (''choros'') is a very old tradition, being referred to by authors such as Plat ...
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Ballos
The Ballos ( el, Μπάλος) is a Greek folk dance and a form of sirtos. There are also different versions in other Balkan countries.
The Ballos is of Greek origin, with ancient Greek elements. The name originates in the Italian ''ballo'' ...
Gaitanaki Gaitanaki ( el, γαϊτανάκι) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece. It is a circle dance. It is also very widespread in Epirus.
See also
*Music of Greece
*Kalamatianos
*Syrtos
Syrtos ( el, συρτός, ''syrtos'' (also ' ...
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Ikariotikos
''Ikariotikos'' ( el, Ικαριώτικος) or ''Kariotikos'' ( el, Καριώτικος, sometimes written with an apostrophe as 'Καριώτικος) is a traditional dance and accompanying song originating in Ikaria a Greek island in the No ...
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Kalamatianos
The Kalamatianós ( el, Καλαματιανός) is one of the best known dances of Greece. It is a popular Greek folkdance throughout Greece, Cyprus and internationally and is often performed at many social gatherings worldwide. As is the ca ...
Lerikos
Lerikos ( el, Λέρικος) is a traditional Greek circle dance. Participants hold hands at the shoulder level and dance in a counterclockwise direction.
See also
*Greek music
*Greek dances
*Sousta
*Greek folk music
*Pentozali
*Syrtos
Syrto ...
Sianos Sianos is a Greek dance meant to open festivities or social gatherings. Sianos is also known on the island of Karpathos as Kato Horos (Κατω Χορος). The men start off the dance and the women eventually join in. The dancers hold hands in a b ...
Syrtos
Syrtos ( el, συρτός, ''syrtos'' (also ''sirtos''); plural , ''syrtoi'' (also ''sirtoi''); sometimes called in English using the Greek accusative forms ''syrto'' (also ''sirto''); from the el, links=no, σύρω, ''syro'' (also ''siro''), ...
Tsakonikos The Tsakonikos or Tsakonikos horos ( el, Τσακώνικος χορός "Tsakonian dance") is a dance performed in the Peloponnese in Greece. It comes from the region, chiefly in Arcadia, known as Tsakonia. It is danced in many towns and village ...
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Tsamikos The Tsamikos ( el, Τσάμικος, ''Tsamikos'') or Kleftikos ( el, Κλέφτικος) is a popular traditional folk dance of Greece, done to music of 3/4 meter.
The dance
The dance follows a strict and slow tempo not emphasising on the st ...
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Zeibekiko
Zeibekiko ( el, Ζεϊμπέκικο, ) is a Greek folk dance.
Origin and history
It takes its name from the Zeybeks, an irregular militia living in the Aegean Region of the Ottoman Empire from late 17th to early 20th centuries. It was fir ...
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Zonaradiko
Zonaradiko ( el, Ζωναράδικος) is a traditional Greek folk dance from Thrace (Greece) that is named after the dance's handhold. Dancers hold the adjacent dancer's ''zonaria'' ( belt) during the dance. Zonaradiko is a village line danc ...
Crete
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Angaliastos
Angaliastos ( el, αγκαλιαστός), is a kind of Greek folk dance from Crete, Greece. It is very widespread in Crete and Greek islands, too. It is called ''angaliastos'' which means "hugged", because it gives the opportunity for young peo ...
Katsabadianos
Katsabadianos ( el, Κατσαμπαδιανός), is a folk dance with Cretan origin. It is very widespread in Heraklion and Chania.
See also
*Music of Greece
*Greek dances
Greek dance (''choros'') is a very old tradition, being referred to ...
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Ntames
Ntames ( el, ντάμες), is a Cretan folk dance from Rethymno, Greece. It is very widespread in Crete. It is danced by couples.
See also
*Music of Greece
*Greek dances
Greek dance (''choros'') is a very old tradition, being referred to by ...
Pentozali
The Pentozali or Pentozalis ( el, Πεντοζάλης) is the trademark folk dance of the island of Crete. It takes its name from the fifth (''pente'') attempt or step (ζάλος being a Cretan Greek word for "step") of the Cretan people to li ...
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Pidikhtos
Pidikhtos ( el, πηδηχτός), is a Greek folk dance with Cretan origin, dancing in a circle formation. It is very widespread in Crete and the Greek islands.
See also
*Music of Greece
*Greek dances
Greek dance (''choros'') is a very old ...
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Sousta
Sousta ( gr, Σούστα, links=no) is a Greek folk dance, performed at weddings as an activity of courtship between husband and wife. It originates from Ancient Greece, and holds prominence in Dodecanese Islands, and broader Aegean region. It ...
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Trizalis
Trizalis ( el, τριζάλης), is a Greek dances, Greek folk dance from Crete, Greece, similar to Pidikhtos and is very widespread in the Greek islands. It is also called "Κουρουθιανός" ''(Kourouthianos)''.
See also
*Music of Greec ...
Endeka Kozanis
Endeka Kozanis is a traditional Greek dance, mostly danced at the region of Kozani. According to one point of view, it is a dance that was being danced at the weddings ("nyfiatikos" as said in Greek).
The dance is believed to have been invented ...
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Kastorianos
Kastorianos ( el, Καστοριανός) is a kind of a Greek folk dance from Macedonia, Greece. It is very widespread in the cities of Kastoria and Kozani.
See also
*Music of Greece
*Greek dances
Greek dance (''choros'') is a very old trad ...
Makedonikos antikristos
Makedonikos antikristos ( el, Μακεδονικός Αντικριστός) is a dance from Macedonia in Greece. It means "face to face dance from Macedonia", and it is danced by two people, usually by a man and a woman. It is mainly danced in ...
Partalos
Partalos ( el, παρτάλος), is a Greek dance from Macedonia, Greece. It is a danced exclusively by men and it is very widespread in the area of Pylaia, Thessaloniki. It has six steps that include leaps and squats.
See also
*Music of Greece ...
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Poustseno
Poustseno Macedonian language Пуштено", ''Pushteno'', meaning "to let go" is a traditional Macedonian dance from Florina, Western Macedonia Greece. It is danced in the area of Florina by the native (Greek) Macedonians, and is also kno ...
Tranos Choros
Tranos Choros ( el, Τρανός Χορός) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Kozani, Greece.
See also
*Music of Greece
*Greek dances
Greek dance (''choros'') is a very old tradition, being referred to by authors such as Plato, Aristotle, ...
Baile de la Conquista The ''Baile de la Conquista'' or Dance of the Conquest is a traditional folkloric dance from Guatemala. The dance reenacts the invasion led by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado and his confrontation with Tecun Uman, ruler of K'iche' kingdom ...
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Punta
Punta is an Afro-indigenous dance and cultural music originating in the Caribbean Island of Saint Vincent And The Grenadines by the Garifuna people before being exiled from the island. Which is also known as Yurumei. It has African and Arawak ...
Kontradans
Kontradans or the French-Haitian Contredanse, is Creolization, creolized dance music formed in the 18th century in the French colonization of the Americas, French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) that evolved from the English ''contra dance'', o ...
* Kwaze le 8
* Trese Riban
* Rara
Neo-African/Vodou dances
* Banda
* Dahomey
* Djouba
* Ibo
* Kongo
* Mascaron
* Mayi
* Parigol
* Petwo
* Yanvlou
Hungary
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Csárdás
Csárdás (, ; ), often seen as Czárdás, is a traditional Hungarian folk dance, the name derived from ' (old Hungarian term for roadside tavern and restaurant). It originated in Hungary and was popularized by bands in Hungary and neighboring l ...
(Czardas)
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Karikázó
Karikázó is a Hungarian folk dance traditionally performed by women. It is a circle dance in time, traditionally to a cappella rather than instrumental music.Somogyi Karikazo. http://www.dunav.org.il/dance_notes/somogyi_karikazo.pdf
Refere ...
Verbunkos
Verbunkos (), other spellings being ''Verbounko'', ''Verbunko'', ''Verbunkas'', ''Werbunkos'', ''Werbunkosch'', ''Verbunkoche''; sometimes known simply as the hongroise or ungarischer Tanz is an 18th-century Hungarian dance and music genre.
The ...
Bhavai dance
Bhavai is a genre of folk dance popular in Rajasthan state in northern India. The male or female performers balance a number of earthen pots or brass/metal pitchers as they dance nimbly, pirouetting and then swaying with the soles of their feet ...
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Chang dance
Chang dance (Hindi: चंग नृत्य) is a folk dance from Rajasthan, India. It is also referred to ''Dhamal'', ''dhuff'' dance,, and as ''Holi dance'' as it is performed during the Hindu festival of the same name (Holi) to celebrate ...
Chholiya
Chholiya (or Chhaliya; Kumaoni: ) or Hudkeli (or Hudke; ) is a traditional folk dance form originated in the Kumaon division of the Indian state of Uttarakhand and Sudurpashchim province of Nepal. It has today become a symbol of Kumaoni and ...
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Dandiya Raas
Raas or Dandiya Raas is the socio-religious folk dance originating from Indian state of Gujarat and popularly performed in the festival of Navaratri. The dance is performed in the Marwar region of Rajasthan too. The etymology of Dandiya-Raas ...
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Gair dance
Gair dance is one of the popular, famous folk dances from Rajasthan in India which is mostly performed by the Bhil community but found in all over Rajasthan.
It is also known as Gair Ghalna, Gair Ghumna, Gair khelna and Gair Nachna. This dan ...
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Gambhira
Gombhira (or gambhira or gamvira) is a type of song originating in the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, what is today northeastern West Bengal, India and northwestern Bangladesh.
In West Bengal (India), gombhir ...
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Ghoomar
Ghoomar or ghumar is a traditional folk dance of Rajasthan. It was the Bhil tribe who performed it to worship Goddess Sarasvati which was later embraced by other Rajasthani communities. The dance is chiefly performed by veiled women who wear fl ...
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Giddha
Giddha ( pa, گدها, ਗਿੱਧਾ, ) is a popular folk dance of women in the Punjab region. The dance is often considered derived from the ancient dance known as the ring dance and is just as energetic as bhangra; at the same time it mana ...
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Gulikan Theyyam
Gulikan Theyyam (Thekkan Gulikan) or Guliga Theyyam (Thekkan Guligan) is worshiped as the Lord Shiva. Gulikan Theyyam is part of the Kaliyattam, a popular religious folk dance in the Indian state of Kerala. In the Tulu Nadu region this deity is ...
*Apu Inka
*Ch'unchu (dance), Ch'unchu
*Danza de tijeras
*Danzantes de Levanto
*Huaconada
*Huayno
*Marinera
*Qhapaq Qulla
*Wari (dance), Wari
*Zamacueca
Philippines
*Abaruray
*Alcamfor
*Alitaptap
*Ballangbang
*Bendian
*Binasuan
*Blit B'laan
*Cariñosa
*Duwawang Malin Awa
*Habanera Botoleña
*Idudu
*Itik-itik
*Janggay
*Jota (music)#The Philippine Jota, Jota and its variations:
**Jota Cabangan
**Jota Caviteña
**Jota Manileña
**Jota Moncadeña
**Jota Paragua
**Jota Quiriño
*Kalatong
*Kappa Malong-Malong
*Kasanduayan
*Kataka-taka
*Kinaranza
*Kuratsa
*Lawiswis Kawayan
*Leron Leron Sinta
*Magkasuyo
*Maglalatik
*Maglangka
*Malagueñas (flamenco style), Malagueña
*Manang Biday
*Pandanggo and its variations:
**Pandanggo sa Bulig
**Pandanggo sa Ilaw
**Pandanggo Oasiwas
**Obando Fertility Rites#Santa Clarang Pinong-pino, Pandanggo Santa Clara
*Panderetas
*Pangalay
*Pantomina
*Panurong-Surong
*Paru-Parong Bukid
*Pasigin
*Pasikat na Baso
*Pasodoble
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Polka
Polka is a dance and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though associated with Czech culture, polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas.
History
Etymology
The term ...
and its variations:
**Polka sa Nayon
**Polka sa Plaza
**Polkabal
*Putungan
*Sagayan
*Sarong Banggi
*Sayaw sa Bangko
*Sayaw Panasahan
*Sinakiki
*Singkil
*Subli
*Tiklos
*Tinikling
*Tutup
*Uyaoy
*Zamboanga (dance), Zamboanga
*Tabudlong (dance), Zamboanga
Farandole
The Farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in Provence, France. The Farandole bears similarities to the gavotte, jig, and tarantella. The carmagnole of the French Revolution is a derivative.
Traditional dance
The farandole is consi ...
*Tambourin
Puerto Rico
*Bomba (Puerto Rico), Bomba
*Danza
*Plena
Punjab (India/Pakistan)
Female dances
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Giddha
Giddha ( pa, گدها, ਗਿੱਧਾ, ) is a popular folk dance of women in the Punjab region. The dance is often considered derived from the ancient dance known as the ring dance and is just as energetic as bhangra; at the same time it mana ...
*Kikli
*Sammi (dance), Sammi
Male dances
* Ho Jamalo
* Bhangra
*Dhumal (dance), Dhumal
*Luddi
Qatar
* Al Moradah
* Ardah
* Khaleegy (dance), Khaleegy
Romani dance
Romania
*Învârtită, Învârtita
*Căluşari, Căluș
*Hora (dance), Hora
*Hora(dance), Hora boierească
*Legényes, Feciorescul
*Soroc, Sorocul
*Jiana
*Alunelul
*Perinița
*Țarina
*Brașov, Brașoveanca
*Sârbă, Sârba
*Palatca
*Bătută, Bătuta din Țara Moților
*Brâul
*Ciuleandra
Khorovod
The khorovod or horovod ( rus, хорово́д, p=xərɐˈvot, uk, хоровод, translit=khorovod or uk, коло, translit=kolo, label=none, be, карагод , bg, хоро, pl, korowód) is an East Slavs, East Slavic and pagan art ...
Humppa
Humppa is a type of music from Finland. It is related to jazz and very fast foxtrot, played two beats to a bar ( or ). Typical speed is about 220 to 260 beats per minute. Humppa is also the name of a few social dances danced to humppa music. A ...
(Finnish)
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Jenkka
Jenkka () is a fast Finnish partner dance found in Finnish folk dance, the Finnish version of the schottische. It is danced to music in or time signature, with about 140 beats per minute.
Men and women do similar steps. The initial dance po ...
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Letkajenkka
Letkajenkka, also known as Letkajenkaa in English and many other languages, is a Finnish dance.
History of the music genre letkajenkka/letkis
Letkajenkka / letkis is a music genre and a general noun as well as two songs by the same name ("Letka ...
(Finnish)
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Polska
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
*Clutha (dance), Clutha
*Dashing White Sergeant
*Dirk dance
*Duke of Perth (reel), Duke of Perth
*Earl of Erroll (reel), Earl of Erroll
*Écossaise
*Gay Gordons (dance), Gay Gordons
*Highland Fling
*Jig
*Pas de Basques and Highcuts
*Reel (dance), Reel
**Reel of the 51st Highlanders
*Roger de Coverley
*Seann Triubhas
*Strathspey (dance), Strathspey
*Strip the willow
*Wilt Thou Go to the Barracks, Johnny?
*Witches reel
Serbia
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Kolo
Kolo may refer to:
Places Poland
*Koło
*Koło, Łódź Voivodeship
* Koło, Lublin Voivodeship
* Koło, Lubusz Voivodeship
Other places
* Kolo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Kolo, Central African Republic
* Kolo (Tanzanian ward), Kondoa district, Dod ...
*Aragonaise
*Ball dels Cossiers
*Cachucha
*Corrido (Spain), Corrido
*Fandango
*Flamenco
*Jota (music), Jota
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Muiñeira
The muiñeira ( Galician: ''muiñeira'', Castilian: ''muñeira'') is a traditional dance and musical genre of Galicia (Spain). It is distinguished mainly by its expressive and lively tempo, played usually in , although some variants are perfor ...
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Sardana
The ''sardana'' (; plural ''sardanes'' in Catalan) is a Catalan musical genre typical of Catalan culture and danced in circle following a set of steps. The dance was originally from the Empordà region, but started gaining popularity throughou ...
*Acara (dance), Acara (Ajaria)
*Artvin Bari
*Ata Bari
*Bar (dance), Bar
* Cilveloy
*Deli Horon
*Done (dance), Done
*Hancer Bari
*Horon
*Kiz Horonu
*Koceri
*Koroglu Oyunu
*Ondort
*Sari Cicek
*Tamara (dance), Tamara
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Tamzara
Tamzara ( hy, Թամզարա, translit=T'amzara; aii, ܬܢܙܪܐ, translit=Tanzara; az, Tənzərə; el, Τάμσαρα, translit=Támsara; tr, Tamzara) is a folk dance native to Armenian Highlands. It is today performed by Armenians, Assyria ...
Syrtos
Syrtos ( el, συρτός, ''syrtos'' (also ''sirtos''); plural , ''syrtoi'' (also ''sirtoi''); sometimes called in English using the Greek accusative forms ''syrto'' (also ''sirto''); from the el, links=no, σύρω, ''syro'' (also ''siro''), ...
Khorovod
The khorovod or horovod ( rus, хорово́д, p=xərɐˈvot, uk, хоровод, translit=khorovod or uk, коло, translit=kolo, label=none, be, карагод , bg, хоро, pl, korowód) is an East Slavs, East Slavic and pagan art ...
*Big Apple (dance), The Big Apple
*Carolina shag
*the Charleston (dance)
Texas
*Cowboy
*Cotton-Eyed Joe
*Line dance
*Western swing (Texas Swing, Country Swing, Aggie Swing)
*Whip (dance), Whip
Virginia
*Virginia reel (dance), Virginia Reel
Venezuela
*Joropo
*Tambor (dance), Tambor
Vietnam
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Lion dance F
Lion dance () is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion's movements in a lion costume to bring good luck and fortune. The lion dance is usually performed during the Chinese New ...
Wales
*Hornpipe
Yemen
* North Yemen: Bara'a dance
* South Yemen: Sharh dance
See also
*Index of dance articles
*List of dances
*Outline of dance, a list of general dance topics