Dance Styles

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Acharuli ([Georgian folk dance])
Acro dance
Allemande
Anaconda ([Snake Dance])
African animal dance
Ardha (Arab tribal war dance)
Argentine Tango
Arkan (Ukrainian, Hutsul)
Arial
Attan (Pashtun)
Azonto (Ghanaian dance)
Baba Karam (Persian, Folk)
Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
Bagurumba (Folk dance of Assam, North-east India)
Balboa (Swing)
Ballet, category, also known as classical dance
Ballos (Burçak tarlası oyunu)(Greece), (Turkey)
Ballroom dance, category
Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
Bandari dance
Bardo Chham (Folk dance of Arunachal, North-east India)
Barn dance, category
Baroque dance, category
Barynya (Russian, folk)
Basse danse (also Basse-dance, Bassadanse, Bassadanze. French and Italian Renaissance dances)
Basque dance
BBoying (Breakdance)
Belly dance
Beguine, dance of Caribbean origin
Bereznianka (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia)
Bergamask (Be dance, from Bergamo, Italy
Bhangra (Folk Dance of Northern India)
Bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance)
Big Apple (Line dance)
Bihu dance (Folk dance of Assam, India)
Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop)
Blues (Club dance, Swing)
Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European)
Bollywood (Danced in Indian Movies)
Bomba (African, Caribbean)
Bon Odori (Japanese)
Boogaloo
Boogie-woogie (Swing)
Bop, see Bop music, also ABA at List of dance organizations
Bossa nova (Brazilian, see Bossa nova music)
Borrowdale (Zimbabweean, see Museve music)
Boston
Bourrée (historical)
Branle (Bransle) (historical)
Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
Breakdancing
Bump and grind
Bugg
Bunny Hop
Butoh (Japanese)
Butterfly (Urban, USA/Caribbean)
Buyo (Japanese)
Cat Daddy
Cajun dance, (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cajun Jig or Cajun One Step
Cajun Jitterbug and Two Step
Cajun Waltz
Zydecko
Cakewalk (Swing)
Calypso (Caribbean)
Candombe (Uruguayan)
Canaries dance (historical, Renaissance, court)
Can-can (Cancan, can can)
Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazilian)
Cariñosa (dance of love) Philippines
Carioca
Carol (Medieval)
Castle Walk
Căluş (Romanian ritual dance)
Céilidh (Ireland, Scotland and Northern England)
Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
Chacarera (Argentina)
Chaconne
Cha cha cha or Cha cha (Cuba, Latin Ballroom Social)
Chamame (Chamamé, Argentina)
Charleston
Charmander (dance)
Chumak (Ukrainian)
Chasapiko (Greece)
Cheerleading
Chicken Dance
Chicken Noodle Soup
Chodzony (Poland)
Chula (Southern Brasil)
Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
Circassian Dance
Circle dance
Clogging
Clowning
Cocek
Collegiate shag
Compas (Haiti)
Conga
Contact improvisation
Contemporary dance
Contra dance
Cordax Greek / Roman erotic dance
Cossack dance
Cotillion
Country/western dance
Country dancing
Country/Western Two-step
Country Swing or Western Swing
Courante (historical)
Court dance
Cueca (Chile)
Cumbia (Colombia, Club)
Cupid Shuffle
Csárdás (Folk, Hungarian; also variants in Slovak dances, Rusyn dances, (Ukrainian dances, Lemko dances))
Chau, West Bengal, India
Cha Cha slide
Dances of Universal Peace
Dancehall
Dandia (Folk dance of Gujarat, India)
Dabke (Levantine)
Dilan (a Kurdish dance, Iran, Turkey, Iraq)
Disco
Dappan koothu
Doublebugg
Dougie
Dragon dance
Drobushki (Russia)
Dubotanets (Ukrainian)
Duranguense
Dutty Wine - a West Indian, Dancehall-inspired dance
dougie-american dance
dubstep
East Coast Swing
Eisa
Electro dance
Electric Slide
English Country Dance
Ethnic dance
Fat dance
Fandango
Farandole (Provençal)
Faroese dance
Farruca
Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
Folk dance
Formation dance
Forró (dance from northeast of Brazil)
Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
Freak dancing
The Freddy
Frevo
Frug
Funk Brazil
Etighi [Nigeria]
Gaida (Greece)
Galliard
Galop
Garba (folk dance of state of Gujarat, India)
Gankino (Bulgaria)
Gavotte (Brittany), Gavot (historical)
Gigue
Ghoomar (Folk Dance of Rajasthan, Northern India)
Grizzly Bear
Guapacha (dance)
Gumboot dance (Africa)
Giddha (Folk dance of Northern India)
g-slide by Lil Mama
Habanera
Haka (Māori)
Hakken (Dutch)
Halay (Turkish, Folk)
Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
Hand Dance (Swing, Washington DC and Baltimore MD metropolitan areas, regional)
Hardcore Dancing (Urban American Hardcore)
Hasapiko (Greece)* Headbanging
Highland dancing
Hip hop dance
Historical dance
Hitch hike
Hokey Pokey, also known as Hokey-cokey, Okey-cokey
Hootchy-Kootchy : Bellydance
Holubka (Ukrainian, Hutsul, Bukovina, Carpathian Ruthenia)
Hopak (Ukrainian)
Hopak-Kolom (Ukrainian)
House dance
Hora (many named versions; folk, Bulgarian, Israeli, Romanian, Ukrainian)
Horan (Crimean Tatars)
Horon (Turkish, Folk)
Hornpipe (Ireland)
Hula
Hully Gully
Hustle and its variant, New York Hustle (Club)
Latin Hustle
Humppa (see Music of Finland)
Hutsulka (Ukrainian, Hutsuls)
Ice dancing
Ikariotikos (Greece)
Improv Tribal Style Belly Dance
Intercessory dance
International folk dance
Interpretive dance
Irish
Irish Dance
Irish Sean-Nós Dance
Irish Stepdance
Israeli folk dancing
Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
Jarabe tapatío
Java (French dance developed in France in the early part of the 20th century)
Jazz dance
Jazz Funk
Jenkka (see Music of Finland)
Jerkin'
Jig Ireland
Jig (Scottish country)
Jitterbug (Swing)
Cajun Jitterbug
Jitterbug Stroll (Line dance, Swing)
Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)
Joged (Indonesian)
John Wall dance
Jota (Spanish dance)
Jove Malaj Mome (Bulgarian folk dance)
Jumpstyle (Techno based dance)
Jabbawokeez
Kalinka (Russia)
Kalymnikos (Greece)
Kamarinskaya (Russia)
Karsilama (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece, Gypsy)
Karşılama (Serbia, Iran, Turkey)
Kandian ([sri Lanka])
Kathak (Classical Indian Dance)
Kathakali (India, incorporates dance)
Kazachok (Russia)
Kerala Natanam (Indian Dance created by Guru Gopinath)
Khasapiko (Greece)
Khattak Dance (Pashtun)
Kizomba (Angola)
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Kolo (Slavic)
Khon (Thai dance)
Khorovod (Russia)
Kleistos (Greece)
Koftos (Greece)
Kolbasti (Turkey)
Kolomyjka (Ukrainian)
Kopanitsa (Bulgaria)
Kotsari(Armenian: Քոչարի; Turkish: Koçari; Greek: Κότσαρι; Georgian: ქოჩარი; Laz: Koçari; Azerbaijani: Köçəri)
Kozachok (Ukrainian)
Krakowiak (Poland)
Krishnanattam (India)
Krumping)
Kuchipudi (Classical Indian Dance)
Kuki Lenkhawm Laam (Classical dance form of the Kuki people practised during the times of the Sukte Dynasty)
Kurdish dance (Iran and Iraq)
Kujawiak (Poland)
Kushtdepdi (Turkmen)
La Cucaracha
La Jota
LambadaKochari(Armenian folk dance)
Lambeth Walk
Lancer (Quadrille)
Landler (Quadrille)
Lap dance
Latin dance
Lavani
Lavolta
Ländler (Austria)
Lerikos (Greece)
LeRoc (Modern Jive, Ceroc)
Letkajenkka (also known as Letkis, Letkajenka, Letkiss, Letka-Enka, Let's Kiss Jenka, La Yenka)
Leventikos (Greece)
Limbo (dancers pass under horizontal pole)
Lindy Hop (Swing)
Line dance
Lion dance
Liscio (Italian traditional music and dance inspired to Waltz,Polka and Mazurka)
Locking
Long Sword
Loure (historical)
Lyrical hip hop dance
Lyrical jazz dance
Lyrical contempery
Macarena
Madison (Line dance)
Maglalatik (Folk Dance of Philippines)
Malaguena
Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin)
Mandra (Mandilatos) (Balkan)
Maneo (Galicia)
Manila Swing
Manipuri (Classical Indian Dance form)
Mapale
Marinera
Marinella (Greece)
Mashed Potato
Matachin (Matachines)
Maypole dance
Maxixe (Social)
Mazur (dance) (Poland)
Mazurka(Poland)
Medieval dance
Melbourne Shuffle (Australia)
Merengue (Latin Club)
Metelytsia ((Ukrainian), khorovod)
Milonga (see Argentine Tango)
Minuet
Modern dance
Modern contemporary
Modern Jive
Molly dance
Mohiniattam
Monkey
Moonwalker
Morris dance
Moshing
Muiñeira (Galicia)
Carballesa
Chouteira
Contrapaso
Golpe
Muiñeira ribeirana
Muiñeira vella
Pandeirada
Piruxada
Redonda
Regueifa
Walk it out
Novelty and fad dances
The Nutbush
Nama Stap (Namibia)
Oberek (also called Obertas or Ober, Poland)
Odissi AKA Orissi (Odisha, India)
Onei
Over/Under
Pachanga
Palo de Mayo (Nicaragua), Afro-Caribbean influence, not to be confused with Maypole dance
Pagode
Pangalatok (Philippines)
Panthi (Folk dance of Chhattisgarh, India)
Pantsula (South Africa)
Parasol dance (Japan)
Partner dance
Participation dance
Para Para
Passacaglia (Passacaille) (historical)
Passepied (historical)
Pasillo
Paso Doble (Ballroom, International Latin)
Pavane (historical)
Peabody (ballroom)
Peewee style (originated by Pee-wee Herman in Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
Pentozalis (Greece)
Persian dance (Iran).
Pidikhtos (Greece)
o Kastrinos Pidikhtos (Greece)
o Malevyziotiko Pidikhtos (Greece)
Pendozalis (Greece)
Pole dancing
Pop, Lock, and Drop It (Hip hop)
Pogo (A punk dance, consisting of jumping up and down)
Pogonisios (Greece)
Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical)
Polka-mazurka
Polonaise
Pony
Pols (Norway, Folk, see Polska)
Pom Squad
Polska (pl.: Polskor; Sweden, Folk)
Prophetic dance
Pryvit (Ukrainian)
Pyrrhichios (Dance from Pontos; Greek Black Sea)
Push (Swing, Texas)
Qasemabadi (a northern Persian style)
Quadrille
Quickstep (Ballroom)
Quebradita (Mexico)
Raas
Rain dancing
Ramvong (Cambodia)
Rapper sword
Raut Nacha (Folk dance of Chhatisgarh, India)
Raqs Sharqi ("belly dance")
Rebetiko dances (Greece)
Redowa
Reel (Irish and Scottish)
Regency dance
Reggae
Reggaeton
Renaissance dance
Rigaudon, Rigadoon
River Dancing
Robot dance
Rock and Roll
o Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll
Round dance (two kinds: circular chain, couples)
Rumba (Ballroom: International Latin & American Rhythm, Folk)
o Cuban Rumba (Ballroom dance as of the beginning of the century, e.g., "The Peanut Vendor" piece)
Salsa (Latin Club)
Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round)
Saltatio (Roman)
Sambalpuri (India)
Samba
o Samba dance
o Samba de Gafieira
o Samba (ballroom)
Sarabande (Saraband)
Sardana (Catalonia)
Sattriya dance
Saunter
Schottische
Scottish country dance
Scottish highland dance
Schoolcraft
Sean-Nós Dance (Ireland - Irish Dance in Sean Nós "Old Style")
Seguidilla (Spanish, folk)
Sequence dance
Serra (Greece)
Set Dance Ireland
Sevillana (Spain)
Shag (Swing)
o Carolina Shag
o Collegiate Shag
o St. Louis Shag
Shake
Shim Sham (Line dance)
Shimmy
Shuffle
Siganos (Greece)
Single Swing (Single Time Swing)
Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (Greece)
Skank (dance)
Skip jive
Slängpolska (Sweden, Folk, see Polska)
Slip jig (Ireland)
Slosh (Scotland)
Slow dance
Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom)
Social dance
Son (Mayan, Guatemala/Mexico)
Sousta (Greece)
o Bulgarian Sousta (Greece)
o Cretan Sousta (Greece)
o Dodecanese Sousta (Greece)
o Macedonian Sousta (Greece)
o Megarian Sousta (Greece)
The Spongebob
Square dance
o Traditional square dance
o Modern Western square dance
Stage diving
(Do The) Standing Still (The Table, 1977)
Stanky Legg (GS Boys)
Step dance Ireland
Street dance
Swim
Swing (both as family of dances and as specific Texas dance)
Swing Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
Swing Roc (Modern Jive, Club)
Suzie Q
Syrtos (Greece)
o Cretan Syrtos (Greece)
o Kalamatianos Syrtos (Mainland Syrtos) (Greece)
o Kapoutzidon Syrtos (Greece)
o Nisiotiko Syrtos (Island Syrtos) (Greece)
o Silyvriano Syrtos (Greece)
Tambourin (Provençal)
Tango (Ballroom, Social, Club)
o Argentine Tango - also known as Tango Argentino (Social)
o Uruguayan Tango - also known as Tango Uruguayo (Social)
o Ballroom Tango - competitive and social dance styles
o Brazilian Tango - see Maxixe
o Finnish tango
o Chinese tango
Tanoura (Egyptian dance)
Tap Charleston (see Lindy Hop)
Tap dance
Tarantella (Italian, folk)
Tau'olunga (Tongan or Samoan - Polynesian origins)
Tecktonik ("tck")
Texas Tommy (see Lindy Hop)
Thizz Dance
Tik (Greece)
Tinikling (Philippines)
Time Warp
Tourdion (historical)
Traditional dance
Tranky Doo (Swing, Line dance)
Trata (Greece)
Trepak (Russian, folk)
Tribal Style Belly Dance
Troika (Folk, Russian, Cajun)
Tropotianka (Ukrainian, Rusyn, Carpathian Ruthenia, Bukovina, Hutsuls)
Troubadou (Haiti)
Tsakonikos (Greece)
Tsamiko (Greece)
Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) (Çifte-telli) (Turkish) (Greece)(Gypsy)(Arabic)
Tsirigotikos (Kythiraikos, Bourdaris) (Greece)
Tsyganochka, ("Gypsie Girl") Russian
Turf Dancing
Tumba
Twist
Two-step
o Cajun Two Step
o Country/Western Two-step
o Nightclub two-step - also known as California Two-step, abbrn: NC2S
Theatre jazz
o Progressive Double Two
Universal Peace, Dances of
Ukrainian dance
Upa or Upa Habanera, claimed by some to be the origin of merengue music and dance.
Uvyvanets (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia, Rusyns, Lemkos, Hutsuls)
Pole Dancing
Valeta (a dance to waltz music)
Vals (Argentina, tango style)
o Valse à deux temps (Valse à deux pas)
Verbunkos
Vesnianka (Ukrainian, a type of khorovod)
Vintage dance
Vogue (dance)
Volte (also Volta, La volta, or Lavolta, Renaissance)
Waacking
Waltz (ballroom, social)
o Boston (dance)
 Walking Boston
o Cajun Waltz
o Dream Waltz
o Elizabeth Waltz
o Cross-step waltz
o Five-step Waltz (Five Step Waltz)
o Hesitation Waltz
o Slow waltz - known as Waltz in ballroom context (ballroom)
o Viennese Waltz (ballroom, social)
o Valse à deux temps (Valse à deux pas)
Watusi (fad dance)
West Coast Swing ("WCS"; Swing, United States)
Western swing (United States)
o Classic WCS
o Funky chick
o Sophisticated Swing (an older name of WCS)
Western promenade dance
Whip (Swing, Texas)
Winterguard
Wolosso (Ivory Coast)
Worship dance
Xibelani (traditional Shangaan (South Africa))
Yablochko (Russian, folk)
Yerakina (Greece)
YMCA
Yakshagana (India, Karnataka)
Yowla (rifle dance from (UAE)
Zapateado (Spain)
Zeibekiko (also spelled Zeibetiko, Zembetiko, Zebetiko, and Zembekiko; Greece)
Zeibeks (Turkey)
Zonaradiko (Thrace)
Zorba's dance (of Greek origin)
Zouk (Brazil, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique)
Zouk-Lambada (Brazil)
Zumba (Colombia)
Zydeco (Louisiana, U.S.)
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