List of dance styles
This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance.
For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin.
American
Most popular styles: tap, lyrical, and jazz
- Cakewalk
- Patting juba
- Stepping
- Tap dancing
- Jazz dance[1]
- Moonwalk
Belly dances
- Belly dance
- Raqs Sharqi
- Turkish belly dance
- Oriental fusion
- Tribal belly dance
- American tribal fusion
- Saidi
- Kawleeya
- Khaleeji
- Baladi
- Dabkeh
- Romani dance
- Bharat Natyam
- Odissi
Ceremonial dance
- Haka
- Kagura
- Ritual dances of China
- Sacred dance
- Cham dance
- Drametse Ngacham
- Prophetic dance
- Rejang dance
- Sanghyang
- Sufi whirling
- Worship dance
Disco / Soul dance
Free and improvised dance
- Bogo lelo dance
- Contact improvisation
- Dance improvisation
- Ecstatic dance
- Free dance
- Fusion dance
- Interpretive dance
- Modern dance
Historical dance
- Ballet
- Baroque dance
- Medieval dance
- Regency dance
- Renaissance dance
- Ultapulta dance
Latin dance/ Rhythm
- American Rhythm
- Bolero willy
- East Coast Swing
- Mambo
- Rumba
- Bachata
- Cha Cha
- Corridos
- Cumbia
- Duranguense
- Forró
- International Latin
- Argentine tango
- Capoeira
- Maculelê
- Danza
- Jive
- Merengue
- Milonga
- Reggaeton
- Rumba
- Salsa
- Samba (ballroom dance)
- Samba (Brazilian dance)
- Samba de Gafieira
- Zouk
- Lambada
- Pasodoble
- Quebradita
- Samba de roda
- Samba enredo
- Tejano dance
- Zapateado:
- Zapateado (Mexico)
- Zapateado (Spain)
Novelty and fad dances
- Animal dance
- Bossa Nova
- Bunny hop
- Conga line
- Freddie
- Frug
- Go-go
- Hitch hike
- Jitterbug
- Lambada
- Madison
- Mule
- Pony
- The Shake
- Swim
- Turkey trot
- Twist
- Watusi
Social dance
Street dance/ Electronic dance
- Hip-hop dance
- Breakdancing
- Cabbage patch dance
- Cat Daddy
- Dougie
- Electric boogaloo
- Gangsta Walking
- Harlem shake
- Jerkin'
- Locking
- Popping
- Turfing
- Uprock
- Tutting
- House dance
- Footwork
- Vogue
- Electro dance
- Flexing
- Jumpstyle
- Krumping
- Litefeet
- Lyrical hip-hop
- Robot dance
- Jaywalk
- majorette
Swing dance
- Balboa
- Big Apple
- Black Bottom
- Blues dance
- Boogie-woogie
- Breakaway
- Bugg
- Carolina Shag
- Charleston
- Collegiate Shag
- East Coast Swing
- Hand dancing
- Hand Jive
- Jitterbug
- Jive
- Jumpin' Joe
- Leroc
- Lindy Hop
- Modern Jive
- Rock and Roll
- Single Swing
- Skip jive
- St. Louis Shag
- West Coast Swing
- Robert R Dance
- Western Swing
Other
References
Further reading
- Carter, A. (1998) The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-16447-8
- Sharp, C. J. (1924) The dance; an historical survey of dancing in Europe. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 0-87471-105-3
- Thomas, H. (2003) The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-72432-1
- Feliksdal, B (2003) Modern Tap Dance, ISBN 90-807699-2-4 Bekebooks
- Feliksdal, B (2004) Jazz Dance Syllabus Jazz, Rhythm, Body and Soul. ISBN 90-807699-4-0 Bekebooks. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Flamenco
- Feliksdal, B (2009) Urban Dance-Jazzdans, ISBN 978-90-807699-6-0 Bekebooks. Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Shipter Fan, B (2009) "Urban Dance-Jazzdans", Bekebooks. Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Acro
- Ballet
- Ballroom
- Belly
- Boogaloo
- Breaking
- Contemporary
- Country–western
- Flamenco
- Hip-hop
- Historical
- Jazz
- Latin
- Lyrical
- Modern
- Polka
- Postmodern
- Swing
- Tap
- Two-step
- Ballet
- Choreography
- Connection
- Dance theory
- Graham
- Lead and follow
- Moves
- Musicality
- Pointe
- Pole
- Sequence
- Spotting
- Turnout
- Turns
(national
dances)
- Africa
- Albania
- Arab
- Armenia
- Assyrian
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Bulgaria
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- China
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Europe
- Faroe Islands
- Georgia
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Korea
- Kurdish
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Pontic Greek
- Romani
- Russia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Wallis and Futuna
- Zimbabwe