List of dance style categories
This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance.
For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see this list.
Concert dance / performance dance
- Ballet
- Concert dance
- Contact improvisation
- Contemporary dance
- Ecstatic dance (also known as freestyle dance and barefoot improvisational dance)
- Lyrical
- Jazz dance
- Lyrical dance
- Modern dance
- Performance dance
- River
- Tap dance
- The Lucker Stomp
- Kpop Dance
Latin / rhythm
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
- St. Louis Shag
- West Coast Swing
- Western dance
Traditional Jazz / Traditional African-American
Ballroom dance
Classical Indian dance
- Bharatanatyam
- Chhau dance
- Gaudiya Nritya
- Kathak
- Kathakali
- Kuchipudi
- Manipuri dance
- Mohiniyattam
- Odissi
- Sattriya
Traditional Iranian Dance
- Persian dance
- Kordish dance
- Wood dance
- lori dance
Azerbaijani dances
- Abayı
- Ağır
- Qaradağı
- Alcha Gulu
- Anzali
- Asta Qarabağı
- Avarı
- Ay bari bakh
- Birilyant
- Cəngi
- Gaval
- Halay
- Maral
- Misri
- Ouch noumra, dourd noumra, besh noumra, alti noumra
- Sarıbaş
- Saz
- Şəki
- Tərəkəmə
- Xançobanı
- Youz bir
- Choban dance
- Yalli dance
- Asia dance
- Nazeilame dance
- Parvane dance
Experimental / freestyle
- Dance de Gauthier
- Jump up
- Neonstyle
- Zeybreak - A mix between Turkish Folkdance and Breaking ( www.kadirmemis.com )
Street dance
- 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
- Cutting shapes
- Disco dance
- Drum 'n Bass-Step/Skanking
- Electro Dance
- Free step
- Grinding
- Hard dance
- Hardcore dancing
- House dance
- Hustle
- Jacking
- Jumpstyle
- Malaysian Shuffle
- Melbourne Shuffle
- Slothing
- Vogue
- Waacking
Pogo
Historical dance
Liturgical dance
Folk dance
- Perafic dance
- Regional Indian Dances
- Bhangra
- Dandiya and Garba
- Mass
- Punjabi
- Rajastani
- Semi–classical
- Prabhu-cheers dance
- blessy- dance
- vijay -dance
- velu - dance
Miscellaneous
- Acro dance
- Belly dance
- Bernie dance[1]
- Bollywood dance
- Calypso
- Cheer dance
- Compas dance
- Fire dance
- Flamenco
- Flying Men Dance
- Greek Classical
- Hip Hop
- Kizomba
- Line dance
- Linya vrak dance
- Modern Imaginative
- Native American
- Novelty and fad dances
- Pom dance
- Reggae dance
- Salsaton dance
- Semba
- Soca dance
- Spinning, hooping and flow arts
- 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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