List of dance style categories
For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see this list.
Traditional dance
- Traditional jazz
- traditional African-American
- Native American
- Ballroom
- Boogie-woogie
- Breakdancing
- Cabbage patch
- Cakewalk
- Charleston
- Chicago stepping
- Crip Walk
- Detroit Ballroom
- Disco dancing
- Drunken Sailor
- Jitterbug
- Jazz dance
- Lindy hop
- Linya vrak dance
- Shuffling
- Slide and Glide
- Stomp dance
- Swing
- Tap dance
- Texas slidethrough
- Texas Swingout
- Texas Tommy
Dancehall dance
Experimental / freestyle
- Boogie
- Contemporary dance
- Dance de Gauthier
- Jump up
- Neonstyle
Street dance
Hip-hop culture
- B-boying
- Breaking
- Footwork
- Freezes
- Powermoves
- Toprock
- Bounce
- Clown Walk
- Detroit Jit
- Electric boogaloo
- Flexing
- Floating
- Jerkin'
- Jiggin'
- Krumping
- Litefeet
- Locking
- Lyrical hip-hop
- Memphis Jookin'
- Popping
- Snap dance
- Turfing
Disco / electronic dance
- Disco dance
- Electro Dance
- Free step
- Grinding
- Hard dance
- Hardcore dancing
- House dance
- Hustle
- Jacking
- Jumpstyle
- Malaysian Shuffle (a dance that is similar to the Melbourne Shuffle but was created in California by children; became a trend for most middle school and high school students)
- Melbourne Shuffle
- Slothing
- Vogue
- Waacking
Pogo
Historical dance
Liturgical dance
Participative dance improvisation
- Contact improvisation
- Ecstatic dance (also known as freestyle dance and barefoot improvisational dance)
Folk dance
- Perafic dance
- Regional Indian Dances
- Bhangra
- Dandiya and Garba
- Mass
- Punjabi
- Rajastani
- Semi–classical
Concert dance / performance dance
- Concert dance
- The Lucker Stomp
- Kpop/Jpop Dance
Latin / rhythm
- American Rhythm
- Cha Cha
- Corridos
- Cumbia Texana
- Duranguense
- International Latin
- Quebradita
- Tejano
Swing dance
- Balboa
- Blues dance
- Carolina Shag
- Charleston
- Collegiate Shag
- Deneme
- East Coast Swing
- Hand Jive
- Jitterbug
- Jitting (evolved from jitterbug)
- Jive
- Leroc
- Lindy Hop
- Modern Jive
- West Coast Swing
- Western dance
Miscellaneous
- Acro dance
- Ballet
- Belly dance
- Bernie dance[1]
- Bollywood dance
- Calypso
- Cheer dance
- Compas dance
- Contemporary dance
- Disco dance
- Fire dance
- Flamenco
- Flying Men Dance
- Greek Classical
- Hip Hop
- Kizomba
- Line dance
- Lyrical
- Modern dance
- Modern Imaginative
- Novelty and fad dances
- Performance dance
- Pom dance
- Reggae dance
- Salsaton dance
- Semba
- Soca dance
- Spinning, hooping and flow arts
- Tap dance
- Zumba
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,The Netherlands
- Shipter Fan, B (2009) "Urban Dance-Jazzdans", Bekebooks. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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