List of dances
This is the main list of dances. It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. There may also be listed dances which could either be considered a specific dance or a family of related dances, depending on your perspective. For example ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be considered a single dance style or a family of related dances. The purpose of the page is to have as complete an index as possible.;Specific dances are listed below in alphabetical order, and only should be listed one time. Variants of a specific dance should be listed as indented items, and not as separate items. For example Waltz has several variants. This makes the list easier to read, and avoids redundant links.
See following for categorized lists:
Dances listed on these specialized (categorized) lists should also be included in this general index.1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
1
- 18th century dance
A
B
- Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
- Balboa (Swing)
- Ballet, also known as classical dance
- Ballroom dance
- Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
- Barndance
- Baroque dance
- Bassadance
- Belly dance (entertainment)
- Bhangra
- Big Apple
- Blitz (dance) - also known as Blitz Jive, Blitz Modern Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
- Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European)
- Bon Odori (Japanese)
- Branle
- Breakdancing
- Bunny Hop
- Butoh (Japanese)
- Buyoh (Japanese)
C
- Cajun One Step (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
- Cajun Two Step (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
- Cajun Jitterbug (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
- Cajun Waltz (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
- Cakewalk
- Can-can
- Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazilian)
- Carioca
- Ceilidh
- Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
- Cha cha - also known as Cha cha cha (Latin Ballroom Social)
- Charleston (dance)
- Chasapiko (Greece)
- Cheerleading
- Chicken Dance
- Chodzony (Polish)
- Circle dance
- Clogging
- Contradance
- Country dance
- Country/western dance
- Country/Western Two Step
- Crowd surfing
- Cumbia (Latin, Club)
- Czardas - also known as Csardas (Folk, Hungarian)
D
E
- East Coast Swing (Swing, American Ballroom) abbrn: ECS
- Electric Slide
- Ethnic dance
F
- Fad dances
- Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
- Folk dance
- Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
- Freddy (dance)
- Fysouni (Greece)
G
H
- Hasapiko (Greece)
- Headbanging
- Historical dance
- Hitch hike
- Hokey-cokey, also known as Okey-cokey
- Hokey Pokey
- Hootchy-Kootchy
- Hora- many named versions (Folk, Israeli, Romanian)
- Hula
- Hully Gully
- Hustle (Club)
- New York Hustle
- Latin Hustle
I
- Ikariotikos (Greece)
- Irish Dance
J
- Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
- Jazz Dance
- Jazzjive (Modern Jive, Club)
- Jig (Scottish country)
- Jitterbug (Swing)
- Cajun Jitterbug
- Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)
K
- Kalymnikos (Greece)
- Kamarinskaya (Russian)
- Karagouna (Greece)
- Karsilamas (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece)
- Kerkyraikos (Greece)
- Khasapiko (Greece)
- Kastrinos (Greece)
- Khorovod(Folk, Russian)
- Kleistos (Greece)
- Koftos (Greece)
- Kotsari (Greece)
- Krakowiak (Polish)
- Kujawiak (Polish)
L
- Lambada
- Lap dance
- Latin dances
- leJive (Modern Jive, Club)
- Lerikos (Greece)
- LeRoc (Modern Jive, Club)
- LetkaJenkka (also known as Letkajenka, Letkiss, Letka-Enka)
- Leventikos (Greece)
- Limbo (Club)
- Lindy hop (Swing)
- Line dance
M
- Macarena
- Madison
- Mambo (American Ballroom)
- Marinella (Greece)
- Mashed Potato
- Maypole dance
- Mazur (dance) (Polish)
- Mazurka(Polish)
- Medieval dance
- Menousis (Greece)
- Merengue (Latin Club)
- Milonga (Latin)
- Minuet
- Mo'jive (Modern Jive, Club)
- Modern dance
- Modern Jive - umbrella term (Club)
- Molly dance
- Morris dance
- Moshing
N
O
- Oberek (Polish)
P
- Partner dance
- Participation dance
- Paso Doble (Ballroom, International Latin)
- Pavane
- Pentozalis (Greece)
- Pidikhtos (Greece)
- Pendozalis (Greece)
- Pogonisios (Greece)
- Pole dance
- Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical)
- Polonaise
- Punk dance
- Push (Swing, Texas)
Q
- Quadrille
- Quickstep (Ballroom)
R
- Raqs Sharqi ("belly dance")
- Rebetiko dances (Greece)
- Redowa
- Reel(Scottish country)
- Regency dance
- Renaissance dance
- Rock and Roll
- Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll
- Rouga (Greece)
- Round dance (circular chain, couples)
- Rumba (International Ballroom, American Smooth, Folk)
- Cuban Rumba (Ballroom dance as of the beginning of the century, e.g., "The Peanut Vendor" piece)
- Rhumba (heavily overlaps with "Rumba" , but some insist on distinctions in the usage)
S
- Salsa (Latin Club)
- Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round)
- Samba (Ballroom, International Latin, Brazilian)
- Sardana (Catalonia)
- Schottische
- Scottish country dance
- Sequence dance
- Serra (Greece)
- Shag (Swing)
- Shake
- Shimmy
- Shuffle
- Siganos (Greece)
- Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (Greece)
- Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom)
- Social dance
- Sousta (Greece)
- Square dance
- Traditional square dance
- Western square dance
- Sta tria (Greece)
- Stage diving
- Street dance
- Striptease
- Svarniara (Greece)
- Swing
- Swing (as family of dances) (as such, (Texas)
- Swing Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
- Swing Roc (Modern Jive, Club)
- Suzie Q
- Syrtos (Syrto)(Greece)
T
- Table dance
- Tango (Ballroom, Social, Club)
- Argentine Tango - also known as Tango Argentino (Social)
- Tap dance
- Tik (Greece)
- Traditional dance
- Trata (Greece)
- Troika (Folk, Russian, Cajun)
- Tsakonikos (Greece)
- Tsamiko (Greece)
- Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) (Greece)
- Tsirigotikos (Kythiraikos, Bourdaris) (Greece)
- Twist
- Two Step
- Cajun Two Step
- Country/western two-step
- Nightclub two-step - also known as California two-step, abbrn: NC2S
- Progressive Double Two
- Universal Peace, Dances of
U
V
W
- Wals (Social) (see also Argentine Tango)
- Waltz (Ballroom, Social)
- Cajun Waltz
- Slow Waltz - known as Waltz in Ballroom context(Ballroom)
- Viennese Waltz (Ballroom, Social)
- Welly boot dance
- West Coast Swing (Swing) abbrn: WCS
- Classic WCS
- Funky WCS
- Sophisticated Swing (an older name of WCS)
- Western promenade dances
- Whip (Swing, (Texas)
X
Y
- Yerakina (Greece)
- YMCA
- Zorba dance (Greece)
Z
- Zembetiko (Zeibetiko, Zebetiko, Zembekiko) (Greece)
- Zonaradiko (Greece)
- Zydeco (Louisiana, USA Regional)
External Links
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