List of Names of Dances from A-Z

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18th century dance

A
Aar Oyun(Gagauz)
Aerobic dance, dance exercise
Air Drumming, playing an imaginary drum
Air guitar, playing an imaginary guitar
Allemande (historical, court, baroque)
American Tribal Style Belly Dance
Antikrystos (Greece), face-to-face traditional dance
Apache (see also Apache (dance move))

B
Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
Bagiye (Assyria)
Balboa (Swing)
Ballet, category, also known as classical dance
Ballroom dance, category
Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
Barn dance, category
Baroque dance, category
Barynya (Russian, folk)
Basse danse (Basse-dance, Bassedanse, Bassadanse) (a category of Renaissance French & Italian (Bassa danze, Bassadanze, Basse danze) dances)
Beguine (dance), dance of Caribbean origin
Bergamask (Bergomask) folk dance, from Bergamo, Italy
Bhangra
Bharatanatyam
Big Apple (Line dance)
Bihu 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)
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)
Bouree (Bourree) (historical)
Branle (Bransle) (historical)
Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
Breakdancing
Bunny Hop
Butoh (Japanese)
Buyo (Japanese)

C
Cajun Jig or 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 (historical, Renaissance, court)
Can-can (Cancan, can can)
Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazilian)
Carioca
Carol (Medieval)
Castle Walk
C?ilí (Ireland)
Ceilidh (Scotland)
Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
Chacarera (Argentina)
Chaconne
Cha cha - also known as Cha cha cha (Latin Ballroom Social)
Chamame (Chamam?, Argentina)
Charleston
Chasapiko (Greece)
Cheerleading
Chicken Dance
Chodzony (Poland)
Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
Circle dance
Clogging
Collegiate Shag
Competitive dance
Conga
Contact improvisation
Contemporary dance
Contradance
Cotillion
Country and Western dance
Country 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
Dabke (Levatine)
Disco
Dragon dance
Drifter
Drobushki
Dera gay (Aruba)

E
East Coast Swing (Swing, American Ballroom) abbrn: ECS
Eisa (Okinawa/Ryukyu)
Electric Slide
English Country Dance
Ethnic dance

F
Fad dance
Fandangos
Farandole (Provencal)
Farruca
Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
Fly
Folk dance
Formation dance
Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
Freddy (dance)
Frug
Freak dancing
Fysouni (Greece)
Floor punching

G
Gaida (Greece)
Galliard
Galop
Gavotte, Gavot (historical)
Gigue
Grizzly Bear
Grinding

H
Habanera
Halay (Turkish, Folk)
Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
Hasapiko (Greece)
Hardcore Dance
Haytarma (Crimean Tatars)
Headbanging
Highland dancing
Hip hop dance
Historical dance
Hitch hike
Hokey Pokey, also known as Hokey-cokey, Okey-cokey
Hootchy-Kootchy
Hora- many named versions (Folk, Israeli, Romanian)
Horan ([[Crimean Tatars]
Horon (Turkish, Folk)
Hornpipe Ireland
Hula
Hully Gully
Hustle (Club)
New York Hustle
Latin Hustle
Humppa (see Music of Finland)

I
Ice dancing
Ikariotikos (Greece)
Intercessory dance
International folk dance
Interpretive dance
Irish Dance
I trata mas i kourelou

J
Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
Jazz Dance
Jazzjive (Modern Jive, Club)
Jenkka (see Music of Finland)
Jig Ireland
Jig (Scottish country)
Jitterbug (Swing)
Cajun Jitterbug
Jitterbug stroll (Line dance, Swing)
Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)
Joged (Indonesian}
Jota (Spanish dance)

K
Kalymnikos (Greece)
Kamarinskaya (Russian)
Karagouna (Greece)
Karsilamas(Karsilama) (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece)(Gypsy)
Kastrinos (Greece)
Kathak (India)
Kathakali (India, incorporates dance)
Kaytarma (Crimean Tatars)
Kazachok (Russian folk dance)
Kerkyraikos (Greece)
Khasapiko (Greece)
Kolo ring-of-dancers folk dance of various Slavic peoples
Khorovod(Folk, Russian)
Kleistos (Greece)
Koftos (Greece)
Kotsari (Greece)
Krakowiak (Poland)
Krumping (Western USA)
Kujawiak (Poland)

L
Lambada
Landler
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
Lion dance
Liquid dancing
Long Sword
Loure (historical)

M
Macarena
Madison (Line dance)
Malaguena
Mandra(Mandilatos)(Balkan)
Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin)
Marinella (Greece)
Mashed Potato
Matachin (Matachines)
Maypole dance
Maxixe (Social)
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
Mohiniattam
Monkey
Morris dance
Moshing

N
Novelty dance

O
Oberek (Obertas, Poland)
Odissi (India)
One Step (Social)

P
Pachanga
Partner dance
Participation dance
Passacaglia (Passacaille) (historical)
Passepied (historical)
Pasillo
Paso Doble (Ballroom, International Latin)
Pavane (historical)
Peewee style (originated by Pee-Wee Herman in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)
Pentozalis (Greece)
Pidikhtos (Greece)
Kastrinos Pidikhtos (Greece)
Malevyziotiko Pidikhtos (Greece)
Pendozalis (Greece)
Pogo (A punk dance, consisting of jumping up and down)
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)
Prophetic dance
Punk dance
Push (Swing, Texas)

Q
Quadrille
Quickstep (Ballroom)

R
Ramvong (Cambodia)
Rapper sword
Raqs Sharqi ("belly dance")
Rebetiko dances (Greece)
Redowa
Reel (Irish)
Reel (Scottish)
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)
Sattriya dance
Schottische
Scottish country dance
Scottish highland dance
Seguidilla (Spanish, folk)
Sequence dance
Serra (Greece)
Serviko (Serbian )
Set Dance Ireland
Shag (Swing)
Carolina Shag
Collegiate Shag
St. Louis Shag
Shake
Shaykhane (Assyria)
Shim Sham (Line dance)
Shimmy
Shuffle
Siganos (Greece)
Single Swing
Single Time Swing
Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (Greece)
Skank
Skip jive
Sl?ngpolska (Sweden, Folk, see Polska)
Slip jig (Ireland)
Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom)
Social dance
Soft Shoe
Sousta (Greece)
Bulgarian Sousta (Greece)
Cretan Sousta (Greece)
Dodecanese Sousta (Greece)
Macedonian Sousta (Greece)
Square dance
Traditional square dance
Modern Western square dance
Sta tria (Greece)
Stage diving
Step dance Ireland
Street dance
Striptease
Stroll
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)
Brazilian Tango - see Maxixe
Tap dance
Tap Charleston (see Lindy Hop)
Tarantella (Italian, folk)
Texas Tommy (see Lindy Hop)
Tik (Greece)
Time Warp
Tourdion (historical)
Traditional dance
Trata (Greece)
Treedancing (A special way of dancing on technoparades, e.g. loveparade)
Trepak (Russian, folk)
Tribal Style Belly Dance
Troika (Folk, Russian, Cajun)
Tsakonikos (Greece)
Tsamiko (Greece)
Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) (Çifte-telli) (Turkish) Greece)(Gypsy)(Arabic)
Tsirigotikos (Kythiraikos, Bourdaris) (Greece)
Tsyganochka
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
Vals (social)
Verbunkos
Vintage dance
Volte, Volta, La volta, Lavolta (historical)

W
Waltz (ballroom, social)
Boston (dance)
Walking Boston
Cajun Waltz
Dream Waltz
Elizabeth Waltz
Cross-step Waltz (Cross Step Waltz)
Five-step Waltz (Five Step Waltz)
Hesitation Waltz
Slow Waltz - known as Waltz in ballroom context (ballroom)
Viennese Waltz (ballroom, social)
Waltz a deux temps (Waltz a deux pas)
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)
Worship dance

X
Xrated

Y
Yablochko (Russian, folk)
Yerakina (Greece)
YMCA
Yocolobohobo (Alibaba)

Z
Zapateado
Zeibekiko (Zeibetiko, Zembetiko, Zebetiko, Zembekiko) (Greece)
Zeybek,Teke zortlatmasi(Turkey)
Zonaradiko (Greece)
Zorba dance (Greece)
Zouk
Zydeco (Louisiana, USA Regional)