List of dances explained
This is the main list of dances. It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances.
See following for categorized lists:
Categories listed on these specialized (categorized) lists should also be included in this general index.
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- Baagh Naach
- Bacchu-ber
- Bachata (Dominican Republic, Latin Club, Folk)
- Bachatango
- Baagh Naach (Folk dance from Odisha, India)
- Bagurumba (Folk dance of Assam, North-east India)
- Baile de la Conquista
- Baishou Dance
- Bajidor Kahot
- Bakisimba
- Bal-musette
- Baladi
- Balboa (Swing)
- Ball dels Cossiers
- Ballet
- Ballo
- Ballos (Burçak tarlası oyunu) (Greece), (Turkey)
- Ballroom dance
- Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
- Bamboula
- Bandari dance
- Bar
- Barachum
- Bardo Chham (Folk dance of Arunachal, North-east India)
- Baris
- Barn dance
- Baroque dance
- Barynya (Russian, folk)
- Basse danse (also Basse-dance, Bassadanse,Bassadanze. French and Italian Renaissance dances)
- Basque dance
- Baton Twirling
- Batuque
- BBoying (Breakdance)
- Bear Dance
- Béarnaise dance
- Bedara Vesha
- Bedhaya
- Bélé
- Belly dance
- Beguine, dance of Caribbean origin
- Berd
- Bereznianka
- Bergamask (Be dance, from Bergamo, Italy)
- Bhagavata Mela
- Bhairab Naach
- Bhangra (Folk Dance of Northern India)
- Bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance)
- Big Apple (Line dance)
- Bihu dance (Folk dance of Assam, India)
- Binasuan
- Biyelgee (Mongolian)
- Bizhu dance
- Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop)
- Blues (Club dance, Swing)
- Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European)
- Bollywood (Indian)
- Bomba (Ecuador)
- Bomba (Puerto Rico) (African, Caribbean)
- Bon Odori (Japanese)
- Bondar
- Boogaloo
- Boogie-woogie (Swing)
- Borborbor
- Border Morris
- Borrowdale (Zimbabweean, see Museve music)
- Bossa nova (Brazil, see Bossa nova music)
- Boston
- Bourrée (historical)
- Branle (Bransle) (historical)
- Brazilian Zouk
- Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
- Breakdancing
- Breton dance
- Buchaechum
- Bugaku
- Bugg (a swing dance from Sweden)
- Bump
- Bunny Hop
- Burlesque dance
- Butterfly dance (American contemporary)
- Buyō (Japanese)
- Bwola
- Byeongsin chum
- Bygdedans
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- Cabbage Patch
- Cachucha
- Cajun dance (Louisiana, United States Regional, Cajun)
- Cakalele
- Cakewalk (Swing)
- Calabrian Tarantella
- Calypso (Caribbean)
- Can-can (Cancan, can can)
- Canaries dance (historical, Renaissance, court)
- Candle dance
- Candombe (Uruguayan)
- Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazil)
- Caporales (Bolivia)
- Carabinier (Haiti)
- Carimbó
- Cariñosa (dance of love) Philippines
- Carioca
- Carnavalito
- Carpaea
- Castle Walk
- Cat Daddy
- Căluş (Romanian ritual dance)
- Ceili dance
- Cendrawasih
- Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
- Chaabi (Moroccan Berber dance)
- Chacarera (Argentina)
- Cha cha cha or Cha cha (Cuba, Latin Ballroom Social)
- Chaconne
- Chaiti ghoda dance
- Chakacha
- Chakkirako
- Chamamé (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay)
- Chang Lo
- Chapelloise
- Charikawi
- Charkula
- Charleston
- Chasapiko (Greece)
- Cheerleading
- Cheoyongmu
- Cheraw dance
- Chicken Dance
- Chicken Noodle Soup
- Chhau dance (Folk dance of Odisha, India)
- Chhayam
- Chholiya
- Choobazi
- Choreia
- Choreography
- Chukano horo
- Chukchu
- Ch'unchu
- Chula (Southern Brazil)
- Chumak
- Chumba (Garifuna people in several Central America)
- Chunaengjeon
- Cibi
- Cilveloy
- Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
- Circassian Dance
- Circle dance
- Cirebon mask dance (Java, Indonesia)
- Clog dance (British)
- Clogging
- Clowning
- Clutha
- Cocek
- Cocolo
- Collegiate shag
- Compas (Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique)
- Competitive dance
- Concert dance
- Condong
- Conga
- Contact improvisation
- Contemporary dance
- Contra dance
- Cordax Greek / Roman erotic dance
- Cornish dance
- Corridinho
- Cossack dance
- Cotillion
- Country/western dance
- Country dance
- Country/Western Two-step
- Coupé-décalé
- Courante (historical)
- Court dance
- Crip walk
- Crnogorka (dance)
- Crpi voda, Jano
- Csárdás (Folk, Hungarian; also variants in Slovak dances, Rusyn dances, (Ukrainian dances, Lemko dances))
- Cuarteto (Argentina)
- Cuban rumba
- Cuban salsa
- Cueca (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile)
- Cumbia (Colombia, Club)
- Cumbia Villera (Argentina)
- Cupid Shuffle
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- Dab (America)
- Dabke (Arab folk dance native to the Levant)
- Daggering
- Dalkhai (Folk dance from Western Odisha, India)
- Dance of Osman Taka
- Dance video games (emotes from video games)
- Dancer's Delight (Scottish)
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Danda Nata (Folk dance from Odisha, India)
- Dandiya Raas
- Danza de los Viejitos
- Danza de los Voladores
- Danza de tijeras (Peru)
- Danzantes de Levanto
- Danzón
- Dappankuthu
- Dashing White Sergeant
- Daychovo horo
- Deer dance
- Deknni
- Deodhani dance
- Devil's Sword Dance
- Dhaanto
- Dhalo (from Goa, éIndia)
- Dhamail or Dhamal (from Sylhet, Bangladesh)
- Dhimsa
- Diablada (Bolivia, Chile, Peru)Dab
- Dilan (a Kurdish dance, Iran, Turkey, Iraq)
- Dingi dingi
- Dipat
- Diplos horos
- Dirk dance
- Disco
- Discofox
- Djolé
- Do-si-do
- Dollu Kunitha
- Domkach
- Domni
- Double bugg (a swing dance from Sweden)
- Dougie
- Dragon dance
- Duke of Perth
- Dumhal
- Dunhuang dance
- Duranguense
- Dutty Wine - a West Indian, Dancehall-inspired dance
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- Hacha'a
- Hai-hak dance
- Haka
- Hakken (Dutch)
- Halay (Turkish, Folk)
- Halling
- Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
- Hand jive
- Hardcore Dancing (Urban American Hardcore)
- Harlem Shake
- Hasapiko (Greece)
- Headbanging
- Highland dancing
- Hip hop dance
- Hiragasy
- Historical dance
- Hitch hike
- Hivinau
- Hoedown
- Hojagiri
- Hokey Pokey, also known as Hokey-cokey, Okey-cokey
- Holubka
- Hootchy-Kootchy
- Hopak (Ukrainian)
- Hopak-Kolom
- Hop-tu-Naa
- Hora (many named versions; folk, Bulgarian, Israeli, Romanian, Ukrainian)
- Horon (Turkish, Folk)
- Hornpipe (Ireland)
- House dance
- Huaconada
- Huapango
- Huayno (Peru)
- Hula
- Hulivesha
- Hully Gully
- Humppa (see Music of Finland)
- Hunguhungu
- Hustle and its variant, New York Hustle (Club)
- Hutsulka
- Hyporchema
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- P'aquchi
- Pa'o'a
- Pachanga
- Padayani
- Padhar dance
- Pagode
- Paidushko horo
- Pakurumo
- Palamakia
- Palo de Mayo (Nicaragua), Afro-Caribbean influence, not to be confused with Maypole dance
- Pambiche
- Pandanggo
- Pangalay
- Panthi (Folk dance of Chhattisgarh, India)
- Pantsula (South Africa)
- Panyembrama
- Para Para
- Parai Attam
- Partalos
- Participation dance
- Partner dance
- Passacaglia (Passacaille) (historical)
- Passepied (historical)
- Pasillo
- Pasodoble (Spanish Ballroom, International Latin)
- Pavane (historical)
- Pavri Nach
- Peabody (ballroom)
- Peacock dance
- Peewee style (originated by Pee-wee Herman in Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
- Pembe
- Pendet
- Pentozali (Greece)
- Perini Shivatandavam
- Perinița
- Perkhuli
- Persian dance (Iran)
- Petrunino Horo
- Phulpati dance
- Pidikhtos (Greece)
- Pilioritikos
- Pirgousikos
- Piva
- Pizzica
- Plataniotiko Nero
- Plena
- Poco-poco
- Podaraki
- Pogo (A punk dance, consisting of jumping up and down)
- Pogonishte
- Pole dancing
- Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical)
- Polka-mazurka
- Polonaise
- Pols (Norway, Folk, see Polska)
- Polska (pl.: Polskor; Sweden, Folk)
- Pom Squad
- Pony
- Popping
- Pop, Lock, and Drop It (Hip hop dance)
- Potrčulka
- Poustseno
- Povrateno
- Pravo
- Prophetic dance
- Proskinitos
- Pryvit (Ukrainian)
- Puliyattam
- Pung cholom
- Punta (Honduras)
- Pyrrhichios (Dance from Pontos; Greek Black Sea)
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