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dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ...
s. It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances. For example,
ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form ...
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ballroom dance Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television ...
and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following for categorized lists: *
List of dance style categories This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin.'' African and American * Bolojo * Cakewalk ...
* List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin *
List of national dances This is a list of national dances. This may be a formal or informal designation. Not all nations officially recognize a national dance or dances. By country References {{DEFAULTSORT:National Dances Dance-related lists Dance Dance is ...
Categories listed on these specialized (categorized) lists should also be included in this general index.


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* Abayı * Abbots Bromley Horn Dance * Acharuli (Georgian folk dance) *
Acro dance Acro dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements. It is defined by its athletic character, its unique choreography, which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics, and its use of acrobatics i ...
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Adana Adana (; ; ) is a major city in southern Turkey. It is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The administrative seat of Adana province, it has a population of 2.26 million. Adana lies in the heart of Cilicia, wh ...
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Adowa dance Adowa is a dance by the Akan people of Ghana. It is a popular traditional dance in Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to t ...
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Affranchi Affranchi () is a former French legal term denoting a freedman or emancipated slave, but was a term used to refer pejoratively to mulattoes. It is used in the English language to describe the social class of freedmen in Saint-Domingue, and othe ...
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Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and s ...
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Ai Georgis Ai Georgis ( el, Άη Γιώργης) is a dance from the village of Nestani in Arkadia, a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus which takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. The dance is performed and danced on the feast day of St G ...
* Alanta dance *
Alkayida Alkayida (''also spelt'' Ashanti tw, Alkaida), also known as Akayida, is a Ghanaian dance with an emphasis on side to side moves, incorporating upper and body gestures, and encouraging group routines as well as individual competition. Alkayida da ...
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Allemande An ''allemande'' (''allemanda'', ''almain(e)'', or ''alman(d)'', French: "German (dance)") is a Renaissance and Baroque dance, and one of the most common instrumental dance styles in Baroque music, with examples by Couperin, Purcell, Bach ...
* An Dro *
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 ...
* Angama (from Japan's Yaeyama Islands) *
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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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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 ...
* 'Aparima *
Apu Inka Apu Inka (Quechua '' apu'' an Andean deity, ''Inka'' Inca)Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) is a folk dance in Peru. The dance re-enacts the capture of the Inca by the ...
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Arab dance Arab folk dances ( ar, رقص عربي, raqs ʿarabiyy), also referred to as Oriental dance, Middle-Eastern dance and Eastern dance, are the traditional folk dances of the Arabs in Arab world. Arab dance has many different styles, including th ...
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Aragonaise In a musical context, an (literally a person or thing from Aragon, a region in Spain) is a "dance of Aragon". This is a driving triple metre dance which is traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets and hand clapping. There are two famous mus ...
* Arcan * Ardah (Arab tribal war dance) *
Argentine Tango Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. It typically has a or rhythmic time signature, and two or three parts repeating in patterns such as ABA ...
* Arkan (
Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...
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Hutsul The Hutsuls (sometimes the spelling variant: Gutsuls; uk, Гуцули, translit=Hutsuly; pl, Huculi, Hucułowie; ro, huțuli) are an ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and Romania (i.e. parts of Bukovina and Maramureș). They ...
) * Armenian line dance * Asma kasma *
Assiko The Assiko is a popular dance from the South of Cameroon. Originally based in the Bassa country, this rhythmed dance takes its name from two words: ISI, changed into ASSI, which means earth or ground; and KOO meaning foot. The Assiko is danced d ...
* Assyrian folk dance (
Assyrian Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyri ...
folk dances) * Asyik *
Atilogwu Atilogwu is a spirited youth dance from the Igbo ethnic group of Nigeria that focuses on vigorous body movement and often includes acrobatics. In the Igbo language, the word itself "Atilogwu" translates into "has magic, as in sorcery/witchcraf ...
* Atsiapat *
Attan Attan ( ps, اتڼ) is a traditional dance originating from the tribal Pashtun regions of Afghanistan and North Western Pakistan. It is now considered the national dance of Afghanistan. Some believe it has spiritual roots connecting it to Zoroa ...
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Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...
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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 , image_flag = F ...
* Azonto (Ghanaian dance)


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Baagh Naach Bagha Nacha or Tiger Dance is performed in Binka, Sonepur of Subarnapur district and Brahmapur and in some parts of Ganjam district in Odisha. It is performed in the month of chaitra. In this, the male dancer paints himself like a tiger. Thus, ...
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Bacchu-ber The bacchu-ber (), derived from Occitan ''bau cubèrt'' (, covered dance or indoor ball), is a traditional folk dance performed with swords. This dance takes place in the district of Pont-de-Cervières, city of Briançon (Hautes-Alpes, France). It ...
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Bachata Bachata may refer to: * Bachata (music), a genre of Latin American music **Traditional bachata, a subgenre of bachata music * Bachata (dance), a dance style from the Dominican Republic * Bachatón, a hybrid bachata/reggaeton music style * "Bachata ...
(Dominican Republic, Latin Club, Folk) * Bachatango *
Baagh Naach Bagha Nacha or Tiger Dance is performed in Binka, Sonepur of Subarnapur district and Brahmapur and in some parts of Ganjam district in Odisha. It is performed in the month of chaitra. In this, the male dancer paints himself like a tiger. Thus, ...
(Folk dance from
Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...
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Bagurumba The Bagurumba () is a traditional dance of the indigenous Boro people living in the State of Assam and North East India. It is also called butterfly dance because it's personification of movements of butterflies and birds. In this occasion, onl ...
(Folk dance of Assam, North-east India) *
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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Baishou Dance The Baishou Dance or baishouwu (摆手舞, literally 'hand-waving dance') is a 500-year-old historic group dance of the Tujia, one of 55 ethnic minorities in China. The dance uses 70 ritual gesture A gesture is a form of non-verbal communic ...
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Bajidor Kahot ( su, ᮘᮏᮤᮓᮧᮁ ᮊᮠᮧᮒ᮪) is a Sundanese dance from Indonesia which combines the dance movements of and as the basic of its motions. What distinguishes them from the two, dance doesn't optimize shoulder movement as the and do ...
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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 ...
* Baladi * Balboa (Swing) *
Ball dels Cossiers The Ball dels Cossiers ( Catalan for "Dance of the Cossiers") is the most popular traditional dance on the island of Majorca, in the Spanish Balearic Islands. In the dance, three pairs of dancers, who are typically male, defend a representation of ...
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Ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form ...
* Ballo *
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'' ...
(Burçak tarlası oyunu) (
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Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...
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Ballroom dance Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television ...
* Ballu tundu (
Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label= Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, aft ...
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Bamboula A bamboula is a type of drum made from a rum barrel with skin stretched over one end. It is also a dance accompanied by music from these drums. History Originating in Africa, the bamboula form appears in a Haitian song in 1757 and bamboula beca ...
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Bandari dance Dances in Iran or Iranian dances ( Persian:رقص ایرانی) are dance styles indigenous to Iran. Genres of dance in Iran vary depending on the area, culture, and language of the local people, and can range from sophisticated reconstructions o ...
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Bar Bar or BAR may refer to: Food and drink * Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages * Candy bar * Chocolate bar Science and technology * Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment * Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud * Bar ( ...
* Barachum * Bardo Chham (Folk dance of Arunachal, North-east India) * Baris *
Barn dance A barn dance is any kind of dance involving traditional or folk music with traditional dancing, occasionally held in a barn, but, these days, much more likely to be in any suitable building. The term “barn dance” is usually associated ...
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Baroque dance Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre, and opera. English country dance The majority of surviving choreographies from the period are English country dances, such as those i ...
* Barynya (Russian, folk) *
Basse danse The ''basse danse'', or "low dance", was a popular court dance in the 15th and early 16th centuries, especially at the Burgundian court. The word ''basse'' describes the nature of the dance, in which partners move quietly and gracefully in a ...
(also Basse-dance, Bassadanse,Bassadanze. French and Italian
Renaissance dance Renaissance dances belong to the broad group of historical dances. During the Renaissance period, there was a distinction between country dances and court dances. Court dances required the dancers to be trained and were often for display and ente ...
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Basque dance Basque dance is the folk dance by Basque people of Basque Country, History From one part of the Basque country to another the music, steps and costumes change, but the collective reveals the Basques' deep love of dance. There are approxi ...
* Batuque * BBoying (Breakdance) * Bear Dance *
Béarnaise dance Béarnaise dances (French - ''danses béarnaises'') are the traditional dances in Béarn, the best-known of which is the ''rond'' or ''rondeau de Gascogne'' . Context Accompaniment Instruments Song Origins Evolution See al ...
* Bedara Vesha *
Bedhaya The bedhaya (also written as bedoyo, beḍaya and various other transliterations) ( jv, ꦧꦼꦝꦪ, translit=Bedhaya) is a sacred, ritualised Javanese dance of Java, Indonesia, associated with the royal palaces of Yogyakarta and Surakarta. Alon ...
* Bélé *
Belly dance Belly dance (Egyptian Arabic: رقص بلدي, translated: Dance of the Country/Folk Dance, romanized: Raks/Raas Baladi) is a dance that originates in Egypt. It features movements of the hips and torso. It has evolved to take many different f ...
* Beguine, dance of Caribbean origin *
Berd Berd ( hy, Բերդ) is a town and urban municipal community in the Tavush Province of Armenia. The town is located to the west of the Tavush river, from Yerevan, surrounded by low mountains. Near the city are the ruins of the Tavush fortress ( ...
* Bereznianka * Bergamask (Be dance, from
Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Com ...
, Italy * Bhagavata Mela * Bhairab Naach * Bhangra (Folk Dance of Northern India) *
Bharatanatyam Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of ...
(Indian classical dance) *
Big Apple "The Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sportswriter for the '' New York Morning Telegraph''. Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by th ...
(Line dance) * Bihu dance (Folk dance of Assam, India) * Binasuan *
Biyelgee Biyelgee (Mongolian Cyrillic: Биелгээ) or Bii (Mongolian Cyrillic: Бий), is a unique form of dance, originated from the nomadic way of life. Almost all regions populated by different ethnic groups of Mongolia have their specific forms of ...
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Bizhu dance The Bizu festival is celebrated by the Chakma people in Bangladesh and India, as the traditional New Year's Day which falls on 13 or 14 April. Bizhu Bizhu is a three-day-long festival that commemorates the commencement of a new year for the ...
* Black Bottom (see
Lindy Hop The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the Black communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy is a fusion of many danc ...
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Blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the ...
(Club dance, Swing) *
Bolero Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same name, bolero is characterized by sophisticated lyrics dealing with love. It has ...
(American Ballroom, Cuban, European) *
Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" ...
(Indian) * Bomba (Ecuador) *
Bomba (Puerto Rico) Bomba is both a traditional dance and musical style of Puerto Rico.Bon Odori or just is fusion of the ancient Japanese belief in ancestral spirits and a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors. This Buddhist–Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people retu ...
(Japanese) * Bondar *
Boogaloo Boogaloo or bugalú (also: shing-a-ling, Latin boogaloo, Latin R&B) is a genre of Latin music and dance which was popular in the United States in the 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City mainly among teenage African Americans and Latinos ...
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Boogie-woogie Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since 1870s.Paul, Elliot, ''That Crazy American Music'' (1957), Chapter 10, p. 229. It was eventually extended from pi ...
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Borborbor Borborbor is a Ghanaian and Togolese traditional dance performed by the Ewe people from the mid-Volta region of Ghana and Southern Togo including Kpalime and Lomé. The dance is performed especially during the festival A festival is an ev ...
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Border Morris Border Morris is a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales– England border in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. They are part of the Morris dance tradition. History ...
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Borrowdale Borrowdale is a valley and civil parish in the English Lake District in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cumberland. It is sometimes referred to as ''Cumberland Borrowdale'' ...
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Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...
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Bossa nova Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovat ...
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Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
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Bossa nova Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovat ...
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Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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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 is ...
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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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Bransle 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 l ...
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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 ...
* Breakaway (see
Lindy Hop The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the Black communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy is a fusion of many danc ...
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Breakdancing Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance originating from the African American and Puerto Rican communities in the United States. While diverse in the amount of variation available in t ...
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Breton dance Breton dance is a group of traditional dance forms originating in Brittany, the Celtic region of France. The dance has experienced a reappropriation in the late 1950s, with the development of the Celtic Circles (cultural groups) and Fest Noz (nigh ...
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Buchaechum Buchaechum (부채춤), called fan dance, is a Korean fan dance originating from various traditional and religious Korean dances. It is usually performed by groups of female dancers. History Buchaechum was created in 1954 by dancer Kim Baek-bong, ...
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Bugaku is a Japanese traditional dance that has been performed to select elites, mostly in the Japanese imperial court, for over twelve hundred years. In this way, it has been known only to the nobility, although after World War II, the dance was ope ...
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Bugg {{Unreferenced, date=June 2011 Bugg is a common dance style in Sweden and is very popular on the dancefloors, when dansbands play. Bugg is a four-step dance and performed at different paces (120–180 BPM). Bugg is a partner dance and follows cert ...
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Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic countries, Nordic c ...
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Bunny Hop The bunny hop is a novelty dance created at Balboa High School in San Francisco in 1952.Buta Kola *
Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founde ...
(Japanese) * Butterfly dance (American contemporary) * Buyō (Japanese) * Byeongsin chum *
Bygdedans Bygdedans (or village dance) is the regional, traditional dance of Norway. Bygdedans are the oldest and most distinctive among Norwegian folk dances.Cabbage Patch * Cachucha *
Cajun dance The Cajuns (; French: ''les Cadjins'' or ''les Cadiens'' ), also known as Louisiana ''Acadians'' (French: ''les Acadiens''), are a Louisiana French ethnicity mainly found in the U.S. state of Louisiana. While Cajuns are usually described as t ...
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Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bord ...
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Cajun The Cajuns (; French: ''les Cadjins'' or ''les Cadiens'' ), also known as Louisiana ''Acadians'' (French: ''les Acadiens''), are a Louisiana French ethnicity mainly found in the U.S. state of Louisiana. While Cajuns are usually described as ...
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Cajun Jig Cajun Jig or Cajun One Step is among the simplest of Cajun dance forms. It has only one basic step. The Cajun Jig was popular in Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but remains a mainstay of dancers. Often, this step pattern is alternated ...
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Cajun One Step Cajun Jig or Cajun One Step is among the simplest of Cajun dance forms. It has only one basic step. The Cajun Jig was popular in Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but remains a mainstay of dancers. Often, this step pattern is alternate ...
** Cajun Jitterbug and Two Step *
Cakalele ''Cakalele'' dance (pronounced "cha-ka-leh-leh", spelled ''tjakalele'' by the Dutch) is a war dance from North and Central Maluku in Indonesia. Hybrid versions also exist among the natives of Sulawesi, Timor, and the Tanimbar Islands. The danc ...
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Cakewalk The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" (dance contests with a cake awarded as the prize) held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers on Black slave plantations before and after emancipation in the Southern Uni ...
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Calabrian Tarantella Calabrian Tarantella (in italian: Tarantella Calabrese or "Sonu a ballu": playing for dancing) is a generic term to include different musical-dancing expressions spread in Calabrian peninsula and different from other southern Italian dances call ...
* Calypso (
Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean ...
) * Can-can (Cancan, can can) * Canaries dance (historical, Renaissance, court) * Candle dance * Candombe (
Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
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Capoeira Capoeira () is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality. Born of the melting pot of enslaved Africans, Indigenous Brazilians and Portuguese influences at the beginning of the 16th cent ...
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Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
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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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Carabinier A carabinier (also sometimes spelled carabineer or carbineer) is in principle a soldier armed with a carbine. A carbiniere is a carabiniere musket or rifle and were commonplace by the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. The word is d ...
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Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and s ...
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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. Cari ...
* Cariñosa (dance of love)
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Carioca Carioca ( or ) is a demonym used to refer to anything related to the City of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The original meaning of the term is controversial, maybe from Tupi language "''kari' oka''", meaning "white house" as the whitewashed stone ...
*
Carnavalito The ''Carnavalito'' ( en, little carnival) is a traditional indigenous dance from the Argentinian ''Altiplano'' and ''puna'' regions, usually performed during religious festivitieIts current form is an expression of a syncretism between Pre-Colu ...
* Carpaea *
Castle Walk Castle Walk is a dance originated and made famous by Vernon and Irene Castle. The Castle Walk became popular through its introduction into the Tango. "Castle Walk" is also a popular American song (1914) composed for Vernon and Irene Castle b ...
* Cat Daddy * Căluş (
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n ritual dance) * Ceili dance * Cendrawasih *
Ceroc Ceroc is an international dance club with more than 200 venues across the UK as well as national and regional competitions and weekend events throughout the year. It also has franchises in many other countries in Europe, Asia and the Antipodes. T ...
(Modern Jive, Club) *
Chaabi Chaabi ( in Arabic), also known as Chaâbi, Sha-bii, or Sha'bii meaning "folk", refers to different music genres in North Africa and the Middle East such as Algerian chaabi, Moroccan chaabi and Egyptian Shaabi. Chaabi music just means 'music ...
(Moroccan
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dance) *
Chacarera The Chacarera is a dance and music that originated in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. It is a genre of folk music that, for many Argentines, serves as a rural counterpart to the cosmopolitan imagery of the Tango. A dance form played by contemporar ...
(Argentina) * Cha-cha-cha (dance), Cha cha cha or Cha cha (Cuba, Latin Ballroom Social) * Chaconne * Chaiti ghoda dance * Chakacha * Chakkirako * Chamame, Chamamé (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay) * Chang Lo * Chapelloise * Charikawi * Charkula * Charleston (dance), Charleston * Hasapiko, Chasapiko (
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) * Cheoyongmu * Cheraw dance * Chicken Dance * Chicken Noodle Soup (Webstar song), Chicken Noodle Soup * Chhau dance (Folk dance of
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, India) * Chhayam * Chholiya * Choobazi * Choreia * Chukano horo * Chukchu * Ch'unchu (dance), Ch'unchu * Chula (music), Chula (Southern Brasil) * Chumak (dance), Chumak * Chumba (Garifuna people in several Central America) * Chunaengjeon * Cibi * Cilveloy * Cinquepace, Cinque-pace * Circassian music, Circassian Dance * Circle dance * Cirebon mask dance (Java, Indonesia) * Clog dance (British) * Clogging * Clowning * Clutha (dance), Clutha * Cocek * Cocolo (dance), Cocolo * Collegiate shag * Compas (
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, Guadeloupe, Martinique) * Condong * Conga line, Conga * Contact improvisation * Contemporary dance * Contra dance * Cordax Greek / Roman erotic dance * Cornish dance * Corridinho * Corrido (Spain), Corrido * Cossack dance * Cotillion * Country/western dance * Country dance * Country/Western Two-step * Coupé-décalé * Courante (historical) * Court dance * Crip walk * Crnogorka (dance) * Crpi voda, Jano * Csárdás (Folk, Hungarian; also variants in Slovaks, Slovak dances, Rusyns, Rusyn dances, (Ukrainian dances, Lemko dances)) * Cuarteto (Argentina) * Cuban rumba * Cuban salsa * Cueca (Argentina,
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, Chile) * Cumbia (Colombia, Club) * Cumbia Villera (Argentina) * Cupid Shuffle


D

* Dab (dance), Dab (America) * Dabke (Arab folk dance native to the Levant) * Dalkhai (Folk dance from Western Odisha, India) * Dance of Osman Taka * Dancer's Delight (Scottish) * Dances of Universal Peace * Danda nata (Folk dance from
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, India) * Dandia (Folk dance of Gujarat, India) * Dandiya Raas * Danza de los Viejitos * Danza de los Voladores * Danza de tijeras (Peru) * Danzantes de Levanto * Danzón * Dappan koothu * Dashing White Sergeant * Daychovo horo * Deer dance (folk dance), Deer dance * Deknni * Deodhani dance * Devil's Sword Dance * Dhaanto * Dhalo (from Goa, éIndia) * Dhamail or Dhamal (from Sylhet, Bangladesh) * Dhimsa * Diablada (
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, Chile, Peru)Dab * Yalli, Dilan (a Kurdish dance, Iran,
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, Iraq) * Dipat * Diplos horos * Dirk dance * Disco * Discofox * Djolé * Dollu Kunitha * Domkach * Domni * Double bugg (a swing dance from
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic countries, Nordic c ...
) * Dougie * Dragon dance * Duke of Perth (reel), Duke of Perth * Dumhal * Dunhuang dance * Duranguense * Dutty Wine - a West Indian, Dancehall-inspired dance


E

* Earsdon Sword Dance * East Coast Swing * Écossaise * Ecstatic dance * Egg dance * Eisa (dance), Eisa * Electro dance * Electric Slide * Endeka Kozanis * English Country Dance * Entarisi ala benziyor * Errenzhuan * Eskista * Espringale * Etighi


F

* Fa'ataupati * Fan dance (Chinese or burlesque) * Fandango (Spain) * Fanga (dance), Fanga * Farandole (Provençal) * Faroese dance * Farruca * Festejo * Fisounis * Flamenco (Spanish/Roma) * Floss (dance), Floss (Western) * Folk dance * Formation dance * Forró (dance from northeast of Brazil) * Foxtrot (dance), Foxtrot (Ballroom Social) * Grinding (dance), Freak dancing * The Freddy * Frevo * The Frug, Frug * Freestyle dance, Freestyle * Fugdi * Funaná * Furiant * Furlana


G

* Gainjeonmokdan * Gair dance * Gaitanaki * Galliard * Galop * Gambuh * Gammaldans * Gandrung * Ganggangsullae * Gankino (Bulgaria) * Gangnam Style * Gankino horo * Ganggangsullae * Garadi * Garba (dance), Garba (folk dance of state of Gujarat, India) * Garland dance * Gato (artform), Gato (Argentina, Uruguay) * Gaudiya Nritya (West Bengal, India) * Gaur Maria Dance * Gavotte (Brittany), Gavotte, Gavot (historical) * Gay Gordons (dance), Gay Gordons * Gending Sriwijaya * Geommu * Gerontikos * Ghoomar (Folk Dance of Rajasthan, Northern India) * Ghumura Dance (Folk dance of Kalahandi, Orissa, India, Orissa/
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, India). * Giddha (Folk dance of Northern India) * Gigue * Giknas * Gluvo-nemo * Gombey (Bermuda) * Gombhira * Goravara Kunitha * Goria dance * Goseong ogwangdae * Gotipua (
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, India) * Grancharsko horo * Grida dance * Grinding (dance), Grinding * Grizzly Bear (dance), Grizzly Bear * Guaguancó * Guapacha (dance), Guapacha * Gumboot dance (Africa) * Gusharaveli


H

* Hacha'a * Hai-hak dance * Haka * Hakken (Dutch) * Halay (Turkish, Folk) * Halling (dance), Halling * Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk) * Hand jive * Hardcore Dancing (Urban American Hardcore) * Harlem shake (dance), Harlem Shake * Hasapiko (
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) * Hatzichristos * Headbanging * Scottish highland dance, Highland dancing * Hip hop dance * Hiragasy * Historical dance * Hitch hike (dance), Hitch hike * Hivinau * Hoedown * Hojagiri * Hokey Pokey, also known as Hokey-cokey, Okey-cokey * Holubka * Hootchy-Kootchy * Hopak (
Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...
) * Hopak-Kolom * Hop-tu-Naa (dance), Hop-tu-Naa * Hora (dance), Hora (many named versions; folk, Bulgarian, Israeli, Romanian, Ukrainian) * Horon (Turkish, Folk) * Hornpipe (Ireland) * House dance * Huaconada * Huapango * Huayno (Peru) * Hula * Hulivesha * Hully Gully * Humppa (see Music of Finland) * Hunguhungu * Hustle (dance), Hustle and its variant, New York Hustle (Club) ** Latin Hustle * Hutsulka * Hyporchema


I

* Ikariotikos (
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) * Improv Tribal Style Belly Dance * Indlamu (dance), Indlamu * Innaby * Sacred dance, Intercessory dance * International folk dance * Interpretive dance * Irish dance * Sean-nós dance, Irish Sean-Nós Dance * Irish stepdance, Irish Stepdance * Isios * Isos Sinasos * Israeli folk dancing


J

* Ja'i * Janger * Jangi (dance), Jangi * Jarabe tapatío * Jarana yucateca * Java (dance), Java * Jazz dance * Jenkka * Jerkin' * Jhijhiya * Jhum dance * Jhumair * Jhumar * Jig Ireland * Jig (Scottish country) * Jitterbug (Swing) ** Cajun Jitterbug ** Jitterbug Stroll (Line dance, Swing) * Jive (dance), Jive (Ballroom, International Latin) * Joged (Indonesian) * Joget * John Wall dance * Jookin * Jota (music), Jota (Spanish dance) * Jove Malaj Mome (Bulgarian folk dance) * Juego de maní * Jumpstyle (Techno based dance)


K

* Kabasaran * Kachāshī (Okinawa, Japan) * Kakilambe * Kalamatianos (
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) * Kalbelia * Kalikapatadi * Kalymnikos (
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) * Kamarinskaya (Russia) * Kamilierikos * Kamrupi dance * Kancet Papatai * Kanella * Kangeli * Kangilu * Kaosikii dance * Kapitan Louka * Karakattam * Karana (dance), Karana * Karikázó * Karma Naach * Karsilamas ** Entarisi ala benziyor * Kastorianos * Kaşık Havası * Kathak (Classical Indian dance) * Kathakali (India, incorporates dance) * Katsabadianos * Kebyar duduk * Kecak * Kechagiadikos * Keisabadi (Folk dance from
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, India) * Kenshibu * Kerala Natanam (Indian dance created by Guru Gopinath) * Kerkiraikos * Khaleegy (dance), Khaleegy * Khanchobany (dance), Khanchobany * Hasapiko, Khasapiko (
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) * Khattak Dance (
Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...
) * Khigga ( Assyrian folk dance) * Khon (Thai dance) * Khorovod (Russia) * Khorumi * Kikkli * Kinigitos * Kizomba (Angola) * Kleistos (
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) * Klezmer (Israelis, Israeli Jewish) * Klompendansen (Dutch) * Kochari * Koftos (
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) * Kolannalu * Kolata * Kolbasti (
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) * Kolo (dance), Kolo (Slavic) * Kolomyjka (
Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...
) * Kontradans (
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) * Kopačka (folk dance), Kopačka * Kopanitsa (Bulgaria) * Körtánc * Kotsari or Kochari (; tr, Koçari; ; ka, ქოჩარი; Laz language, Laz: Koçari; az, Köçəri) * Koutsos * Kōwakamai * Kozachok (
Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...
) * Kpanlogo * Krakowiak (Poland) * Krishnanattam (India) * Kromanti dance * Krumping * Kuchipudi (Classical Indian dance) * Kuda Lumping * Kuduro * Kujawiak (Poland) * Kullawada * Kumi Odori * Kumina * Kummi * Kurdish dance (Iran and Iraq) * Kwassa kwassa


L

* Lafina * Lahasua * Lakalaka * Lambada * The Lambeth Walk, Lambeth Walk * Lambri Kamara * Lap dance * Lasya * Latin dance * Lavani (Indian, Maharashtra) * Ländler (Austria) * Lebang Boomani dance * Legényes * Legong * Lerikos (
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) * LeRoc (Modern Jive, Ceroc) * Les Lanciers * Letkajenkka (also known as Letkis, Letkajenka, Letkiss, Letka-Enka, Let's Kiss Jenka, La Yenka) * Leventikos (
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) * Lezginka (Russian Caucasus, Caucasus Region) * Lezim * Likok Pulo * Limbo (dance), Limbo (dancers pass under horizontal pole) * Linđo *
Lindy Hop The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the Black communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy is a fusion of many danc ...
(Swing) * Line dance * Lion dance * Lipothymiarikos * Liscio (Italian traditional music and dance inspired to Waltz, Polka and Mazurka) * Llamerada * Locking (dance), Locking * Long Sword dance, Long Sword * Loulouvikos * Loure (historical) * Lurish dance (Iran and Iraq) * Lyrical dance


M

* Maanch * Macarena (dance), Macarena (Spain) * Maculelê (dance), Maculelê * Madison (dance), Madison (Line dance) * Maglalatik (Folk Dance of Philippines) * Mahari dance * Mak Inang * Makedonia (dance), Makedonia * Makedonikos antikristos * Makrinitsa dance * Mak Sa'moa * Mako (dance), Mako * Malagueñas (flamenco style), Malaguena * Malhão * Malwai Giddha * Mambo (dance), Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin) * Mamita (dance), Mamita * Mandilatos * Maniatikos * Manipuri dance, Manipuri (Classical Indian Dance) * Mapalé * Mapouka * Mardana Jhumair * Marinera (Peru) * Mascherata * Mashed Potato (dance), Mashed Potato * Matachin
Matachines
* Matki dance * Māʻuluʻulu * Maypole dance * Maxixe (dance), Maxixe (Social) * Mazur (dance) (Poland) * Mazurka (Poland) * Mchogoro (Mayotte) * Medieval dance * Meʻetuʻupaki * Meke * Melbourne Shuffle (Australia) * Menora (dance), Menora * Merengue (dance), Merengue (Latin Club) * Méringue (
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) * Metelytsia ((
Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...
), khorovod) * Metsovitikos (dance), Metsovitikos * Mihanikos * Milonga (dance), Milonga (see
Argentine Tango Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. It typically has a or rhythmic time signature, and two or three parts repeating in patterns such as ABA ...
) * Minuet * Mirzayi * Mixer dance * Mizmar (dance), Mizmar * Modern dance * Modern Jive * Mohiniyattam (Indian classical dance) * Molly dance * Monferrina * Monodiplos * Moonwalk (dance), Moonwalker * Moraego * Morenada (
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) * Moresca * Moreška * Morris dance * Mosak sulmani dance * Moshing * Mpougatsas * Mugo * Muiñeira (Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain) * Mujra * Mule (dance), Mule * Murga (Argentina, Uruguay, Spain) * Mussoll * Mwanzele


N

* Nabichum * Nacnī (Folk dance from
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/Orissa, India, Orissa) * Namgen * Napoloni * Nati (dance), Nati * Newa dance * New Vogue (dance), New Vogue * Niiko * Nijemo Kolo * Nizamikos * Novelty and fad dances * Ntames * Ntournerakia * Nutbush (dance), Nutbush


O

* O Nikolos * Oberek (also called ''Obertas'' or ''Ober'', Poland) * Odissi ''Orissi'' (
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, India) * Odzemek * Ohafia War Dance * Ohangla dance * Ojapali (folk dance from Assam, India) * Okayama (dance), Okayama * Okumkpa * Oleg (dance), Oleg * Omal * One-Step * Oro (eagle dance) * Oruro Diablada * 'ote'a * ʻotuhaka * Owa dance


P

* P'aquchi * Pa'o'a * Pachanga * Padayani * Padhar dance * Pagode * Paidushko horo * Pakurumo * Palamakia * Palo de Mayo (Nicaragua), ''Afro-Caribbean influence, not to be confused with'' Maypole dance * Pambiche * Pandanggo * Pangalay * Panthi (Folk dance of Chhattisgarh, India) * Pantsula (South Africa) * Panyembrama * Para Para * Parai Attam * Parasol dance (Japan) * Partalos * Participation dance * Partner dance * Passacaglia (Passacaille) (historical) * Passepied (historical) * Pasillo * Pasodoble (Spanish Ballroom, International Latin) * Pavane (historical) * Pavri Nach * Peabody (dance), Peabody (ballroom) * Peacock dance * Peewee dance, Peewee style (originated by Pee-wee Herman in Pee-wee's Big Adventure) * Pembe * Pendet * Pentozali (
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) * Perini Shivatandavam * Perinița * Perkhuli * Persian dance (Iran) * Petrunino Horo * Phulpati dance * Pidikhtos (
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) * Pilioritikos * Pirgousikos * Piva (dance), Piva * Pizzica * Plataniotiko Nero * Plena * Poco-poco * Podaraki * Pogo (dance), Pogo (A punk dance, consisting of jumping up and down) * Pogonishte * Pole dancing * Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical) * Polka-mazurka * Polonaise (dance), Polonaise * Pols (Norway, Folk, see Polska (dance), Polska) * Polska (dance), Polska (pl.: Polskor; Sweden, Folk) * Pom Squad * Pony (dance), Pony * Popping * Pop, Lock, and Drop It (Hip hop dance) * Potrčulka * Poustseno * Povrateno * Pravo * Prophetic dance * Proskinitos * Pryvit (
Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...
) * Puliyattam * Pung cholom * Punta (Honduras) * Pyrrhichios (Dance from Pontos; Greek Black Sea)


Q

* Qhapaq Qulla * Quadrille * Queer Tango * Quickstep (Ballroom) * Quebradita (Mexico)


R

* Dandiya Raas, Raas * Raibenshe * Rain dancing * Ramvong (Cambodia) * Rapper sword * Raqs sharqi * La Raspa * Raut Nacha (Folk dance of Chhattisgarh, India) * Rebetiko dances (
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) * Red River Jig (Canadian Métis) * Redowa * Reel (dance), Reel (Ireland, Irish and Scotland, Scottish) * Regency dance * Reggada * Rejang dance *
Renaissance dance Renaissance dances belong to the broad group of historical dances. During the Renaissance period, there was a distinction between country dances and court dances. Court dances required the dancers to be trained and were often for display and ente ...
* Reog * Rhumba (a.k.a. ballroom rumba; International Latin & American Rhythm) ** Cuban rumba (Cuba) * Rigaudon * Rinkafadda * Robam Meh Ambao * Robam Neary Chea Chuor * Robam Tep Apsara * Robot dance *Rock and Roll (dance), Rock and Roll ** Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll * Rodat (dance), Rodat * Roger de Coverley * Rom kbach * Romvong * Ronggeng * Round dance (ballroom), Round dance (two kinds: circular chain, couples) * Rougatsiarikos * Rudl * Rugovo (sword dance), Rugovo


S

* Sadi Moma * Sagayan * Salegy * Salsa (dance), Salsa (Latin Club) ** Rueda de Casino, Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round) * Saltarello * Saman (dance), Saman * Samba (Brazilian dance), Samba **Samba de Gafieira * Samba (ballroom dance) * Sambai * Sammi (dance), Sammi * Sanding (dance), Sanding * Sanghyang * Sangini * Sangrai dance * Sapera * Sarabande (Saraband) * Sârbă * Sardana (Catalonia) * Sattriya dance (Assam, India) * Schottische * Schuhplattler * Scottish country dance * Scottish highland dance * Sean-nós dance, Sean-Nós Dance (Ireland - Irish Dance in Sean Nós "Old Style") * Seann Triubhas * Seguidilla (Spanish, folk) * Semba (Angola) * Sequence dance * Serpent dance * Serra (dance), Serra (
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) * Irish stepdance#Solo dance, Set Dance Ireland * Seungjeonmu * Seungmu * Sevillanas (Spain) * Sewang dance * Shag (Swing) ** Carolina shag ** Collegiate shag ** St. Louis shag * The Shake (dance), Shake * Shalakho * Shim Sham (Line dance) * Shimmy * Shota (dance), Shota * Sianos * Siklla * Simd (dance), Simd * Simeriani * Singhi Chham * Singkil * Single Swing (Single Time Swing) * Singo Ulung * Sirmpa * Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (
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) * Sivas bar * Skank (dance) * Skip jive * Skočná * Slängpolska (Sweden, Folk, see Polska) * Slip jig (Ireland) * Slow dance * Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom) * Snoa (dance), Snoa * Social dance * Soke (dance), Soke * Sokkie * Solomon Islands dance * Son (music), Son (Mayan, Guatemala/Mexico) * Šopka * Sōran Bushi * Sousedská * Sousta (
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) * Špacírka * Sperveri * Springar * Square dance * Squat dance * Traditional square dance, Square dance * Modern western square dance * Stage diving * Stamoulo * Stanky Legg (GS Boys) * Starotikveško * Stave dancing * Step dance (Ireland) * Stiletto dance (American contemporary solo dance) * Stomp dance * Strathspey (dance), Strathspey * Street dance * The Strictly (British television dance) * Strip the willow * Subli * Suleiman Aga (dance), Suleiman Aga * Sundanese dance * Suscia * Swing (dance), Swing (both as family of dances and as specific Texas dance) * Syrtos (
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) ** Kalamatianos, Kalamatianos Syrtos (Mainland Syrtos) (
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)


T

* Taepyeongmu * Tahtib * Tambor (dance), Tambor * Tambourin (Provençal) * Tamure * Tamzara * Tandava (India) * Tanggai dance * Tango (dance), Tango (Argentina) (Ballroom, Social, Club) **
Argentine Tango Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. It typically has a or rhythmic time signature, and two or three parts repeating in patterns such as ABA ...
- also known as Tango Argentino (Social) ** Uruguayan Tango - also known as Tango Uruguayo (Social) ** Tango (ballroom), Ballroom Tango - competitive and social dance styles ** Brazilian Tango - see Maxixe (dance), Maxixe ** Finnish tango * Thirayattam (Indian Ethnic dance) * Thiriyuzhichil * Tanggai dance * Tanoura (dance), Tanoura (Egyptian dance) * Tap Charleston (see
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) * Tap dance * Tapeinos horos * Tarakama (dance), Tarakama * Tarantella (Italian, folk) * Tatsia * Tau'olunga (Tongan or Samoan - Polynesian origins) * Tautoga * Ta Xila * Tecktonik ("tck") * Teke zortlatmasi * Tello (dance), Tello * Temani (dance), Temani (Israelis, Israeli Jewish dance) * Temuraga * Tertali * Teshkoto * Texas Tommy (dance), Texas Tommy (see
Lindy Hop The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the Black communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy is a fusion of many danc ...
) * Thabal chongba * Thidambu Nritham * Thirayattam * Thirra * The Thistle (Scottish ladies' solo step dance)) * Thomai * Tiger dance * Tinikling (
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) * Time Warp (song), Time Warp * Tinku (
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, Peru) * Tobas (dance), Tobas * Tondero (Peru) * Topeng dance * Tourdion (historical) * Toycular yarcan * Toyi-toyi * Traditional dance * Tranky Doo (Swing, Line dance) * Tranos Choros * Trata (dance), Trata (
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) * Trepak (The Nutcracker) (Russian dance; character dance from the ballet ''The Nutcracker'') * Tropak (folk) * Tresenica * American Tribal Style Belly Dance, Tribal Style Belly Dance * Tripuri dances * Trizalis * Troika (dance), Troika (Folk, Russian,
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) * Trojak * Tromakton * Tropanka * Tropotianka * Tsakonikos (
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) * Tsamiko (
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) * Tsestos * Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) (Çifte-telli) (Turkish people, Turkish) (
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)(Romani people, Romani)(Arabic) * Tsiniaris * Tufo (dance), Tufo * Tumba francesa * Tutsa Naga * Tutting (dance), Tutting * Twerking * Twist (dance), Twist * Two-step (dance move), Two-step ** Cajun Two Step ** Country/Western Two-step ** Nightclub two-step - also known as California Two-step, abbrn: NC2S ** Progressive Double Two * Twoubadou (
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) * Tyrolienne


U

* Ukrainian dance * Ula (dance), Ula * Ulek mayang * 'upa'upa, claimed to be the origin of merengue music and Merengue (dance), dance * Uprock (as known as ''Rock Dance'' or ''Rocking'') * Ura (dance), Ura * Urban Dance * Uzundara


V

* Vallja e cobanit * Valse à deux temps * Van papuri * Varsovienne * Vayia Strose kai Louloudia * Veeragase * Veeranatyam * Verbunkos * Vesnianky * Vintage dance * Vira (dance), Vira * Virginia reel (dance), Virginia reel * Vlečenoto * Vogue (dance) * Volkspele * Volta (dance)


W

* Waacking * Waka waka (dance), Waka waka * Waltz ** Cross-step waltz ** International standard waltz ** Peruvian waltz ** Venezuelan waltz ** Viennese waltz * Wari (dance), Wari * Watusi (dance), Watusi (fad dance) * Wayang wong * West Coast Swing ("WCS"; Swing, United States) * Western swing (United States) ** Sophisticated Swing (an older name of WCS) * Western promenade dance * Whirling * Wilt Thou Go to the Barracks, Johnny? * Winterguard * Witches reel * Wolosso (Ivory Coast) * Worship dance


X

* Xaxado * Xibelani dance, Xibelani (traditional Shangaan people, Shangaan (South Africa))


Y

* Yablochko (Russian, folk) * Yakshagana (Karnataka, India) * Yangge * Yarkhushta * Yein * Yingge dance * Y.M.C.A. (song), YMCA * Yosakoi (Japanese) * Youz bir * Yove male mome * Yowlah (rifle dance from UAE * Yup'ik dancing * Yurukikos


Z

* Zaharoula * Zamacueca * Zamba (artform), Zamba (Argentina) * Zambra * Zaouli * Zapateado (Mexico) * Zapateado (Spain) * Zapin (Malay traditional dancing, Malaysia) * Zarambeque * Zaramo (dance), Zaramo * Zeybek dance * Zeibekiko * Zervodexios * Zervos (dance), Zervos * Zeybek dance * Zonaradiko (Thrace) * Zorba's dance, another name for Sirtaki (of Greek origin) * Zouk (musical movement), Zouk (Guadeloupe, Martinique,
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,
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) * Zouk-Lambada (
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) * Zwiefacher (Germany) * Zydeco (dance), Zydeco (
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, U.S.)


See also

* Index of dance articles * Outline of dance, a list of general dance topics in our world today and from history. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Dances Dance-related lists, Dances Dances,