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:

• List of dance style categories
• List of dances sorted by ethnicity
• List of novelty/fad dances

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

• Aerobic dance
  dance exercise
• Air guitar
  playing an imaginary guitar
• Allemande (historical, court, baroque)
• Antikrystos (Greece)
  face-to-face traditional dance
• Apache (see Lindy Hop)

B

• Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
• Balboa (Swing)
• Ballet, category, also known as classical dance
• Ballroom dance, category
• Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
• Barn dance, category
• Baroque dance, category
• Basse danse (Basse-dance, Bassedanse, Bassadanse) (a category of Renaissance French & Italian (Bassa danze, Bassadanze, Basse danze) dances)
• Beguine
  of Caribbean origin
• Belly dance (entertainment)
• Bergamask (Bergomask) folk dance, from Bergamo, Italy
• Bhangra
• Big apple (Line dance)
• Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop)
• Blitz (dance) - also known as Blitz Jive, Blitz Modern Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Blues (Club dance, Swing)
• Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European)
• Bon Odori (Japanese)
• Boogie Woogie (Swing)
• Bop, see Bop music, also ABA at List of dance organizations
• Bossa Nova (dance) (Brasilian, see Bossa Nova music)
• Bouree (Bourree) (historical)
• Branle (Bransle) (historical)
• Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
• 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
• Canaries dance (historica, Renaissance, court)
• Can-can (Cancan, can can)
• Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazilian)
• Carioca
• Ceilidh
• Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
• Chaconne
• Cha cha - also known as Cha cha cha (Latin Ballroom Social)
• Charleston (dance)
• Chasapiko (Greece)
• Cheerleading
• Chicken Dance
• Chodzony (Poland)
• Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
• Circle dance
• Clogging
• Collegiate Shag
• Competitive dance
• Conga
• Contradance
• Cotillion
• Country dance
• Country/western dance
• Country/Western Two Step
• Country/Western Swing (Country Swing)
• Courante (historical)
• Court dance
• Cross Step Waltz
• Crowd surfing
• Cumbia (Latin, Club)
• Czardas, Csardas (Folk, Hungarian)

D

• Dances of Universal Peace
• DanceSport
• Disco

E

• East Coast Swing (Swing, American Ballroom) abbrn: ECS
• Electric Slide
• Ethnic dance

F

• Fad dances
• Fandango (Spanish)
• Farandole (Provencal)
• Farruca (Spanish/gypsy)
• Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
• Fly
• Folk dance
• Formation dance
• Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
• Freddy (dance)
• Frug
• Fysouni (Greece)

G

• Gaida (Greece)
• Galliard
• Galop
• Gavotte, Gavot (historical)
• Gigue

H

• Habanera
• Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
• 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
• Humppa (see Music of Finland)

I

• Ikariotikos (Greece)
• Irish Dance

J

• Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
• Jazz Dance
• Jazzjive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Jenkka (see Music of Finland)
• Jerk
• Jig (Scottish country)
• Jitterbug (Swing)
  • Cajun Jitterbug
• Jitterbug stroll (Line dance, Swing)
• Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)

K

• Kalymnikos (Greece)
• Kamarinskaya (Russian)
• Karagouna (Greece)
• Karsilamas (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece)
• Kazachok (Russian folk dance)
• Kerkyraikos (Greece)
• Khasapiko (Greece)
• Kastrinos (Greece)
• Kolo ring-of-dancers folk dance of various Slavic peoples
• Khorovod(Folk, Russian)
• Kleistos (Greece)
• Koftos (Greece)
• Kotsari (Greece)
• Krakowiak (Poland)
• Kujawiak (Poland)

L

• Lambada
• Lap dance
• Latin dances
• Lavolta
• leJive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Lerikos (Greece)
• LeRoc (Modern Jive, Club)
• LetkaJenkka (also known as Letkajenka, Letkiss, Letka-Enka)
• Leventikos (Greece)
• Limbo (dancers pass under horizontal pole)
• Lindy Chorus (Line dance)
• Lindy hop (Swing)
• Line dance
• Loure (historical)

M

• Macarena
• Madison (Line dance)
• Malaguena (Spanish)
• Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin)
• Marinella (Greece)
• Mashed Potato
• Matachin (Matachines)
• Maypole dance
• Mazur (dance) (Poland)
• Mazurka(Poland)
• Medieval dance
• Menousis (Greece)
• Merengue (Latin Club)
• Mexican Hat Dance
• Milonga (see Argentine Tango)
• Minuet
• Mo'jive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Modern dance
• Modern Jive - umbrella term (Club)
• Molly dance
• Monkey
• Morris dance
• Moshing

N

• Novelty dances

O

• Oberek (Poland)

P

• Partner dance
• Participation dance
• Passacaglia (Passacaille) (historical)
• Passepied (historical)
• Pasillo
• Paso Doble (Ballroom, International Latin)
• Pavane (historical)
• Pentozalis (Greece)
• Pidikhtos (Greece)
  • Kastrinos Pidikhtos (Greece)
  • Malevyziotiko Pidikhtos (Greece)
• Pendozalis (Greece)
• Pogonisios (Greece)
• Pole dance
• Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical)
• Polka-mazurka
• Polonaise
• Pony
• Pols (Norvegia, Folk, see Polska)
• Polska (pl.: Polskor; Sweden, Folk)
• 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
• Rigaudon
• Rock and Roll
  • Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll
• Rouga (Greece)
• Round dance (two kinds: circular chain, couples)
• Rumba (International Ballroom, American Smooth, Folk)
  • Cuban Rumba (Ballroom dance as of the beginning of the century, e.g., "The Peanut Vendor" piece)
  • Rhumba (heavily overlaps with "Rumba" , but some insist on distinctions in the usage)

S

• Salon dance
• Salsa (Latin Club)
• Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round)
• Samba (dance) (Ballroom, International Latin; also Brazilian traditional, see Samba (music))
  • Samba de Gafieira
  • Carnival Samba
• Sarabande (Saraband)
• Sardana (Catalonia)
• Schottische
• Scottish country dance
• Seguidilla (Spanish, folk)
• Sequence dance
• Serra (Greece)
• Shag (Swing)
  • Carolina Shag
  • Collegiate Shag
  • St. Louis Shag
• Shake
• Shim Sham (Line dance)
• Shimmy
• Shuffle
• Siganos (Greece)
• Single Swing
• Single Time Swing
• Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (Greece)
• Slängpolska (Sweden, Folk, see Polska)
• Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom)
• Social dance
• Sousta (Greece)
  • Bulgarian Sousta (Greece)
  • Cretan Sousta (Greece)
  • Dodecanese Sousta (Greece)
  • Macedonian Sousta (Greece)
• Square dance
  • Traditional square dance
  • Western square dance
• Sta tria (Greece)
• Stage diving
• Street dance
• Striptease
• Svarniara (Greece)
• Swim
• Swing (both as family of dances and as specific Texas dance)
• Swing Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
• Swing Roc (Modern Jive, Club)
• Suzie Q
• Syrtos (Syrto)(Greece)
  • Cretan Syrtos (Greece)
  • Kalamatianos Syrtos (Mainland Syrtos) (Greece)
  • Kapoutzidon Syrtos (Greece)
  • Nisiotiko Syrtos (Island Syrtos) (Greece)
  • Silyvriano Syrtos (Greece)

T

• Table dance
• Tango (Ballroom, Social, Club)
  • Argentine Tango - also known as Tango Argentino (Social)
• Tap dance
• Tap Charleston (see Lindy Hop)
• Tarantella (Italian, folk)
• Texas Tommy (see Lindy Hop)
• Tik (Greece)
• Tourdion (historical)
• Traditional dance
• Trata (Greece)
• Troika (Folk, Russian, Cajun)
• Tsakonikos (Greece)
• Tsamiko (Greece)
• Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) (Greece)
• Tsirigotikos (Kythiraikos, Bourdaris) (Greece)
• Tumba
• Twist
• Two Step
  • Cajun Two Step
  • Country/western two-step
  • Nightclub two-step - also known as California two-step, abbrn: NC2S
  • Progressive Double Two

U

• Universal Peace, Dances of
• Upa, Upa Habanera, claimed by some to be the origin of merengue (music) and Merengue (dance).

V

• Verbunkos
• Vintage dance
• Volte, Volta, La volta, Lavolta (historical)

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)
• Watusi
• Welly boot dance
• West Coast Swing (Swing) abbrn: WCS
• Western Swing
  • Classic WCS
  • Funky WCS
  • Sophisticated Swing (an older name of WCS)
• Western promenade dances
• Whip (Swing, (Texas)

X

Y

• Yerakina (Greece)
• YMCA
• Zorba dance (Greece)

Z

• Zapateado
• Zembetiko (Zeibetiko, Zeibekiko, Zebetiko, Zembekiko) (Greece)
• Zonaradiko (Greece)
• Zouk
• Zydeco (Louisiana, USA Regional)

See also Dance basic topics for a list of general dance topics.

External Links

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