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
- fella shake
- tap dancing
- fella fella fella I'm 100% fella
- Stepping
- Jazz
- Big Men Thug Shaker[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
Latin dance/ Rhythm
- American Rhythm
- Bachata
- Cha Cha
- Corridos
- Cumbia
- Duranguense
- Forró
- International Latin
- Lambada
- Pasodoble
- Quebradita
- Samba de roda
- Samba enredo
- Tejanodance
- Zapateado:
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
- Country dance, Contra dance
- Participation 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
- Rhythmic Gymnastics
- Acrobatic dance
- Bhangra
- Bollywood dance
- Calypso
- Concert dance
- Contemporary dance
- Fire dance
- Flamenco
- Flying Men Dance
- Ice Dance/Rhythm Dance
- KPOP
- Liturgical dance
- Lyrical dance
- Pole dance
- Vintage dance
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 90-807699-2-4Bekebooks
- Feliksdal, B (2004) Jazz Dance Syllabus Jazz, Rhythm, Body and Soul. ISBN 90-807699-4-0Bekebooks. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Flamenco
- Feliksdal, B (2009) Urban Dance-Jazzdans, ISBN 978-90-807699-6-0Bekebooks. Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Shipter Fan, B (2009) "Urban Dance-Jazzdans", Bekebooks. Amsterdam, Netherlands