List of Dance Style Categories Information
This is a list of the dance style categories. These categories are not mutually exclusive and are context dependent (i.e., a particular dance may belong to several categories).
For older and more region-orientated vernacular dance styles, see this list.
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Traditional Jazz / African-American vernacular dance
- Black Bottom
- Boogie-woogie
- Cabbage patch
- Cakewalk
- Charleston
- Chicago stepping
- Detroit Ballroom
- Drunken Sailor
- Hand Dance / Bop
- Jitterbug
- Lindy hop
- Moonwalk
- Swing
- Tap dance
- Texas Swingout
- Texas Tommy
Dancehall dance
Experimental / Freestyle
Folk dance
Hip-hop & Funk dance
- Breaking
- Poppin'
- Bounce
- Crip Walk (C-Walk)
- Clown Walk
- Crown Walk
- Detroit Jit
- Electric boogaloo
- Floating
- Jerkin'
- Jiggin'
- Jookin'
- Krumping
- Litefeet
- Locking
- Popping
- Snap dance
- Street Jazz
- Strobing
- Turfing
House dance
Punk dance
- Hardcore
- Pogo
Rave dance
- Candy Walk
- Hardcore
- Kandi Stomping
- Rebolation
- Melbourne Shuffle
- X-Outing
Historical dance
- see also Concert dance
Folk dance
- Perafic dance
Ballroom dance
- Ballroom dance
- International standard
- South African Sokkie
- Waltz
- Tango
- Viennese Waltz
- Foxtrot
- Quickstep
- American Smooth
- Waltz
- Tango
- Slow Foxtrot
- Viennese Waltz
- (Formerly: Peabody)
- International standard
Latin dance
- Latin dance
- Quebradita
- Duranguense
- Cumbia Texana
- Corridos
- Tejano
- Cha Cha
Swing dance
- Modern Jive
- Leroc
- Lindy Hop
- Blues dance
- Balboa
- Deneme
- Jitterbug
- Jitting (evolved from Jitterbug)
- Jive (dance)
- East Coast Swing
- West Coast Swing
- Collegiate Shag
- Carolina Shag
- Hand Jive
- Charleston
- Western dance
Traditional dance
Liturgical dance
Participative dance improvisation
- Contact improvisation
- Ecstatic dance aka Freestyle Dance aka Barefoot Improvisational Dance
Miscellaneous
- See also: Disco music
Concert dance / performance dance
- Acro dance
- Ballet
- Contemporary dance
- Greek Classical
- Concert dance
- Flamenco
- Modern dance
- Performance dance
- Tap dance
Historical dance
Belly dance
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,The Netherlands
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