> A-Z List Of Dance From All World!

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A
Aar Oyun (Gagauz)
Allemande (historical, court, baroque)
American Tribal Style Belly Dance
An dro or "En dro" (Brittany, in-round traditional dance)
Antikrystos (Greece), face-to-face traditional dance
Arkan (Ukrainian, Hutsul)
Ara (Kurdish folk dance)
Avant-deux or "Avant-deux de travers", (Brittany, traditional dance)

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B
Baba karam (a Persina dance style)
Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
Bagiye (Assyria)
Balboa (Swing)
Ballet, category, also known as classical dance
Ballroom dance, category
Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
Bandari (South of Iran)
Barn dance, category
Baroque dance, category
Barynya (Russian, folk)
Basse danse (also Basse-dance, Bassadanse, Bassadanze. French and Italian Renaissance dances)
Basque dance
Belly dance
Beguine, dance of Caribbean origin
Bereznianka (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia)
Bergamask (Bergomask) folk dance, from Bergamo, Italy
Bhangra
Bharatanatyam
Big Apple (Line dance)
Bihu dance
Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop)
Blues (Club dance, Swing)
Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European)
Bomba (African, Caribbean)
Bon Odori (Japanese)
Boogaloo
Boogie-woogie (Swing)
Bop, see Bop music, also ABA at List of dance organizations
Bossa Nova (dance) (Brazilian, see Bossa nova music)
Boston (dance)
Bourre (historical)
Branle (Bransle) (historical)
Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
Breakdance
Bump and grind
Bugg
Bunny Hop
Butoh (Japanese)
Butterfly (Urban, USA/Caribbean)
Buyo (Japanese)

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C
Cajun Jig or Cajun One Step (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cajun Jitterbug and Two Step, (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cajun Waltz (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cakewalk
Canaries dance (historical, Renaissance, court)
Can-can (Cancan, can can)
Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazilian)
Carinosa (dance of love) Philippines
Carioca
Carol (Medieval)
Castle Walk
Calus (Romanian ritual dance)
Cilidh (Ireland and Scotland)
Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
Chacarera (Argentina)
Chaconne
Cha cha cha or Cha cha (Latin Ballroom Social)
Chamame (Chamam, Argentina)
Charleston
Chumak (Ukrainian)
Chasapiko (Greece)
Cheerleading
Chicken Dance
Chodzony (Poland)
Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
Circle dance
Clogging
Cocek
Collegiate shag
Competitive dance
Conga
Contact improvisation
Contemporary dance
Contra dance
Cordax Greek / Roman erotic dance
Cotillion (dance)
Country/western dance
Country dancing
Country/Western Two-step
Country Swing or Western Swing
Courante (historical)
Court dance
Cross Step Waltz

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Crumping
Cueca (Chile)
Cumbia (Colombia, Club)
Csrds (Folk, Hungarian; also variants in Slovak dances, Rusyn dances, (Ukrainian dances, Lemko dances))

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D
Dances of Universal Peace
Dabke (Levatine)
Drobe (aka "drobe de Guingamp", Brittany, traditional dance)
Disco
Doublebugg
Dragon dance
Drobushki (Russia)
Dubotanets (Ukrainian)
Dutty Wine - a West Indian, Dancehall-inspired dance

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E
Dance Type Origin
East Coast Swing Swing, American ballroom United States
Eisa Folk dance Okinawa/Ryukyu
Electric Slide Line dance United States
English Country Dance Folk dance England
Ethnic dance

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F
Fad dance
Fandango
Farandole (Provencal)
Farruca
Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
Folk dance
Formation dance
Forr (dance from northeast of Brazil)
Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
The Freddy
Frug
Freak dancing
Fysouni (Greece)
Funk Brazil

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G
Gaida (Greece)
Galliard
Galop
Gankino (Bulgaria)
Gavotte (Brittany), Gavot (historical)
Gigue
Grinding (dance)
Grizzly Bear
Guapacha (dance)

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H
Habanera
Haka (Maori)
Hakken (Dutch)
Halay (Turkish, Folk)
Hanter-dro (Brittany, traditional dance)
Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
Hardcore Dancing(Urban American Hardcore)
Hasapiko (Greece)
Haytarma (Crimean Tatars)
Headbanging
Highland dancing
Hip hop dance
Historical dance
Hitch hike
Hokey Pokey, also known as Hokey-cokey, Okey-cokey
Hootchy-Kootchy
Holubka (Ukrainian, Hutsul, Bukovina, Carpathian Ruthenia)
Hopak (Ukrainian)
Hopak-Kolom (Ukrainian)
Hora (many named versions; folk, Israeli, Romanian, Ukrainian)
Horan (Crimean Tatars)
Horon (Turkish, Folk)
Hornpipe (Ireland)
Hula
Hully Gully
Hustle and its variant, New York Hustle (Club)
o Latin Hustle
o Humppa (see Music of Finland)
o Hutsulka (Ukrainian, Hutsuls)

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I
Ice dancing
Ikariotikos (Greece)
Improv Tribal Style Belly Dance
Intercessory dance
International folk dance
Interpretive dance
Irish dance
Itik-itik(Philippines)

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J
Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
Jarabe tapato
Jazz dance
Jazzjive (Modern Jive, Club)
Jenkka (see Music of Finland)
Jig Ireland
Jig (Scottish country)
Jitterbug (Swing)
o Cajun Jitterbug
o Jitterbug Stroll (Line dance, Swing)
o Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)
o Joged (Indonesian)
o Jota (Spanish dance)
o Jove Malaj Mome (Bulgarian folk dance)
o Jumpstyle (Techno based dance)

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K
Kalymnikos (Greece)
Kamarinskaya (Russia)
Kandyan Dances (Sri Lanka)
Karagouna (Greece)
Karsilama (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece, Gypsy)
Kastrinos (Greece)
Kathak (India)
Kathakali (India, incorporates dance)
Kaytarma (Crimean Tatars)
Kazachok (Russia)
Kerkyraikos (Greece)
Khasapiko (Greece)
Kolo (Slavic)
Khorovod (Russia)
Kleistos (Greece)
Koftos (Greece)
Kolomyjka (Ukrainian)
Kopanitsa (Bulgaria)
Kotsari (Greece)
Kozachok (Ukrainian)
Krakowiak (Poland)
Krumping (Western U.S.)
Kuchipudi (India)
Kujawiak (Poland)

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L
Lambada
Lambeth Walk
Lancer (Quadrille)
Landler (Quadrille)
lap dancer
Larid or ride (traditional dance of south Brittany)
Latin dance
Lavolta
Lerikos (Greece)
LeRoc (Modern Jive, Ceroc)
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
Lion dance
Long Sword
Loure (historical)
Lyrical dance

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M
Macarena
Madison (Line dance)
Malaguena
Mandra(Mandilatos)(Balkan)
Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin)
Mapale
Marinella (Greece)
Mashed Potato
Matachin (Matachines)
Maypole dance
Maxixe (Social)
Mazur (dance) (Poland)
Mazurka(Poland)
Medieval dance
Melbourne Shuffle (Australia)
Menousis (Greece)
Merengue (Latin Club)
Mexican Hat Dance
Metelytsia ((Ukrainian), khorovod)
Milonga (see Argentine Tango)
Minuet
Modern dance
Modern Jive - (Ceroc)
Molly dance
Mohiniattam
Morris dance
Moshing

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N
Novelty and fad dances
The Nutbush

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O
Oberek (also called Obertas or Ober, Poland)
Odissi (India)
One Step (Social)

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P
Pachanga
Palo de Mayo (Nicaragua), Afro-Caribbean influence, not to be confused with Maypole dance
Pandango sa Ilaw (Philippines)
Parasol dance (japan)
Partner dance
Participation dance
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)
o Pendozalis (Greece)
o Pop, Lock, and Drop It (Hip Hop)
o Pogo (A punk dance, consisting of jumping up and down)
o Pogonisios (Greece)
o Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical)
o Polka-mazurka
o Polonaise
o Pony
o Pols (Norvegia, Folk, see Polska)
o Pom Squad
o Polska (pl.: Polskor; Sweden, Folk)
o Prophetic dance
o Pryvit (Ukrainian)
o Pyrichios (Dance from Pontos; Greek Black Sea)
o Punk dance
o Push (Swing, Texas)

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Q
Qasemabadi (a northern Persian style)
Quadrille
Quickstep (Ballroom)

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R
Rain dancing
Ramvong (Cambodia)
Rapper sword
Raqs Sharqi ("belly dance" /smiley

Rebetiko dances (Greece)
Redowa
Reel (Irish and Scottish)
Regency dance
Reggae
Reggaeton
Renaissance dance
Rigaudon
Rock and Roll
o Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll
o Rouga (Greece)
o Round dance (two kinds: circular chain, couples)
o Rumba (International Ballroom, American Smooth, Folk)
o Cuban Rumba (Ballroom dance as of the beginning of the century, e.g., "The Peanut Vendor" piece)

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S
Salon dance
Salsa (Latin Club)
Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round)
Samba
o Samba dance
o Samba de Gafieira
o Samba (ballroom)
o Sarabande (Saraband)
o Sardana (Catalonia)
o Sattriya dance
o Schottische
o Scottish country dance
o Scottish highland dance
o Schoolcraft
o Seguidilla (Spanish, folk)
o Sequence dance
o Serra (Greece)
o Serviko (Serbian)
o Set Dance Ireland
o Sevillana (Spain)
o Shag (Swing)
o Carolina Shag
o Collegiate Shag
o St. Louis Shag
o Shake
o Shim Sham (Line dance)
o Shimmy
o Shuffle
o Siganos (Greece)
o Single Swing (Single Time Swing)
o Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (Greece)
o Skank (dance)
o Skip jive
o Slngpolska (Sweden, Folk, see Polska)
o Slip jig (Ireland)
o Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom)
o Social dance
o Son (Mayan, Guatemala/Mexico)
o Soraya ("Bellydance" /smiley

o Sousta (Greece)
o Bulgarian Sousta (Greece)
o Cretan Sousta (Greece)
o Dodecanese Sousta (Greece)
o Macedonian Sousta (Greece)
o Megarian Sousta (Greece)
o Square dance
o Traditional square dance
o Modern Western square dance
o Spongebob Dance
o Sta tria (Greece)
o Stage diving
o Step dance Ireland
o Street dance
o Stroll
o Svarniara (Greece)
o Swim
o Swing (both as family of dances and as specific Texas dance)
o Swing Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
o Swing Roc (Modern Jive, Club)
o Suzie Q
o Syrtos (Syrto) (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)