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Abayi

Abayi (Azerbaijani: Abayı) is an Azerbaijani dance with its origins in the Shaki and Zaqatala region...

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Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is an English folk dance dating back to the Middle Ages. The dance tak...

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Georgian Dance

Georgian Dance (Georgian: ქართული ცეკვა) is the traditional dance of Georgia. It stems from military...

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Acro Dance

Acro Dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elem...

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Adana (Dance)

Adana (Macedonian: Адана) is a traditional Macedonian Oro, folk dance, from the town of Veles.     I...

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Adowa Dance

Adowa is a dance by the Akan people of Ghana. It is a popular traditional dance in Ghana and it is p...

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Affranchi (Dance)

The Affranchi is a traditional folk dance that originated in Saint-Domingue, the modern day Haiti.

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Agbadza

Agbadza is an Ewe music and dance that evolved from the times of war into a very popular recreationa...

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Agir Karadagi

Agir Karadagi (Azerbaijani: Ağır Qaradağı - meaning heavy Karadakhi) is Azerbaijani melody of a danc...

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Ai Georgis

Ai Georgis (Greek: Άη Γιώργης) is a dance from the village of Nestani in Arkadia, a region of Greece...

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Alanta Dance

Alanta Dance is an original Nigerian music genre and dance. Like most African dances, it requires vi...

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Alkayida

Alkayida (also spelt Ashanti Twi: Alkaida), also known as Akayida, is a Ghanaian dance with an empha...

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Allemande

An allemande (allemanda, almain(e), or alman(d), French: "German (dance)") is a Renaissance and Baro...

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An Dro

An dro or en dro (Breton: "The Turn") is a Breton folk dance in 4/4. It is a form of a circle dance....

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Angaliastos

Angaliastos (Greek: αγκαλιαστός), is a kind of Greek folk dance from Crete, Greece. It is very wides...

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Angama (Dance)

Angama (アンガマ) or angama odori (angama dance) is a style of dancing that is performed in many communi...

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Angelica (Dance)

The Angelica or Angelike (Greek: Ἀγγελική) was a celebrated dance among the ancient Greeks, performe...

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Antikristos

Antikristos or Antikrystós (Greek: αντικρυστός χορός) is a dance of Greek origin. “Aντικρυστός” in G...

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Antipatitis

Antipatitis (Greek: αντιπατητής) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Greek island Karpathos, Greece...

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'Aparima

The ʻaparima or Kaparima (Rarotongan) is a dance from Tahiti and the Cook Islands where the mimicks ...

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Apu Inka

Apu Inka (Quechua apu an Andean deity, Inka Inca) is a folk dance in Peru. The dance re-enacts the c...

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Arab Folk Dances

Arab folk dances (Arabic: رقص عربي, romanized: raqs ʿarabiyy), also referred to as Oriental dance, M...

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Aragonaise

In a musical context, an Aragonaise (literally a person or thing from Aragon, a region in Spain) is ...

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Arcan (Dance)

The Arcan is the name of a custom, and of the associated popular dance and melody, of Romania. It is...

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Ardah

Ardah (Arabic: العرضة / ALA-LC: al-‘arḍah) is a type of folkloric group dance in the Arabian Peninsu...

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Argentine Tango

Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th ...

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Arkan (Dance)

Arkan (Ukrainian: Aркан, Aрґан) is a popular circle dance of the Ukrainian Hutsul people (from Hutsu...

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Armenian Line Dance

The Armenian Line dance is an Armenian folk dance, danced at parties and other special occasions. It...

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Azerbaijani Dances

Azerbaijani dances (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Rəqsləri) are traditional dances developed and performed...

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Assiko

The Assiko is a popular dance from the South of Cameroon. Originally based in the Bassa country, thi...

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Assyrian Folk Dance

Assyrian folk dances are sets of dances that are performed throughout the world by Assyrians, mostly...

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Asyik

Asyik (literally "beloved"/"besotted") is a classical royal court dance popular in Patani and Kelant...

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Atilogwu

Atilogwu is a spirited youth dance from the Igbo ethnic group of Nigeria that focuses on vigorous bo...

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Atsiapat

Atsiapat (Pontic: Άτσιαπατ), also spelt atsapat (Άτσαπατ), is the first in a sequence of three Greek...

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Attan

Attan (Pashto: اتڼ) is a traditional dance originating from the tribal Pashtun regions of Afghanista...

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Awki Awki

Awki awki (Aymara awki father / gentleman, the reduplication signifies that there is a group of some...

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Azonto

Azonto is a dance and music genre from Ghana. Ghana News Agency cites their study which found out th...

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Bagha Nacha

Bagha Nacha or Tiger Dance is performed in Binka, Sonepur of Subarnapur district and Brahmapur and i...

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Bacchu-ber

The bacchu-ber (French: [ba.ky.bɛʁ]), derived from Occitan bau cubèrt (Occitan: [baw ky'bɛʁ], covere...

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Bachata (Dance)

Bachata is a style of social dance from the Dominican Republic which is now danced all over the worl...

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Bachatango

Bachatango (often classed as a sensual form of modern bachata) is

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Bagha Nacha

Bagha Nacha or Tiger Dance is performed in Binka, Sonepur of Subarnapur district and Brahmapur and i...

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Bagurumba

The Bagurumba (Bodo: बागुरुम्बा) is a traditional dance of the indigenous Boro people living in the ...

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Baile de la Conquista

The Baile de la Conquista or Dance of the Conquest is a traditional folkloric dance from Guatemala. ...

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Baishou Dance

The Baishou Dance or baishouwu (摆手舞, literally 'hand-waving dance') is a 500-year-old historic group...

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Bajidor Kahot

Bajidor Kahot (Aksara Sunda: ᮘᮏᮤᮓᮧᮁ ᮊᮠᮧᮒ᮪) is a Sundanese dance from Indonesia which combines the da...

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Bal-musette

Bal-musette is a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in ...

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Baladi

Baladi (Arabic: بلدي baladī; relative-adjective 'of town', 'local', 'rural', comparable to English f...

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Balboa

The Balboa is a swing dance that originated in Southern California during the 1920s and enjoyed huge...

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Ball dels Cossiers

The Ball dels Cossiers (Catalan for "Dance of the Cossiers") is the most popular traditional dance o...

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Ballet

Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissanc...

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Ballo

The ballo was an Italian dance form during the fifteenth century, most noted for its frequent change...

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Ballos

The Ballos Sirtos (Greek: Μπάλος) is a Greek folk island dance from Greece. There are also different...

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Ballroom Dance

Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around ...

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Ballu tundu

Ballu tundu or ballu sardu is a traditional Sardinian folk dance which is typically danced in a clos...

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Bamboula

A bamboula is a type of drum made from a rum barrel with skin stretched over one end. It is also a d...

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Dances in Iran

Dances in Iran or Iranian dances (Persian:رقص ایرانی) are dance styles indigenous to Iran. Genres of...

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Bar (Dance)

Bar is a Turkish folk dance from Eastern Turkey. The word bar is from the Armenian word "Պար" (bar) ...

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Barachum

Barachum is a representative of the Korean Buddhist ritual dance, (jakbeop), and is performed by Bud...

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Bardo Chham

Bardo Chham is a folk dance traditional to the Himalayan Buddhist Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India...

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Baris Dance

Baris dance is a family of traditional war dances in Bali, Indonesia, accompanied by gamelan, in whi...

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Barn Dance

A barn dance is any kind of dance involving traditional or folk music with traditional dancing, occa...

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Baroque Dance

Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, th...

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Barynya

Barynya is a fast Russian folk dance and music. The origins of the Barynya dance developed in the Eu...

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Basse danse

The basse danse, or "low dance", was a popular court dance in the 15th and early 16th centuries, esp...

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Basque Dance

Basque dance is the folk dance by Basque people of Basque Country  

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Batuque (Music and Dance)

The Batuque is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde.  

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Breakdancing

Breaking, also called breakdancing or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance origi...

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Bear Dance

Bear Dance is a Native American ceremonial dance that occurs in the spring. It is a ten-day event to...

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Béarnaise Dance

Béarnaise dances (French - danses béarnaises) are the traditional dances in Béarn, the best-known of...

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Bedara Vesha

Bedara Vesha is a folk dance performed days before Holi night in Sirsi town of Karnataka. It is also...

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Bedhaya

The bedhaya (also written as bedoyo, beḍaya, and various other transliterations) (Javanese: ꦧꦼꦝꦪ, ro...

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Bélé

A bélé is a folk dance and music from Martinique, St. Lucia, Dominica, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, a...

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Belly Dance

Belly dance (Egyptian Arabic: رقص بلدى, translated: Dance of the Country/Folk Dance, romanized: Raks...

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Beguine (Dance)

The beguine (/bəˈɡiːn/ bə-GHEEN) is a dance and music form, similar to a slow rhumba. It was popular...

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Berd (Dance)

Berd (Armenian: Բերդ, բերդապար (Berd, berdapar), "Fortress") is an Armenian dance which originates f...

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Bereznianka

Bereznianka (Ukrainian: Березнянка) is a popular folk dance from southwestern Ukraine (Transcarpathi...

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Bergamask

Bergamask, bergomask, bergamesca, or bergamasca (from the town of Bergamo in Northern Italy), is a d...

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Bhagavata Mela

Bhagavata Mela is a classical Indian dance that is performed in Tamil Nadu, particularly the Thanjav...

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Bhairab Naach

Bhairab Naach. "Bhairava's Dance" is an ancient masked dance performed by Newar community in the Kat...

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Bhangra (Dance)

Bhaṅgṛā (Punjabi: ਭੰਗੜਾ/بھنگڑا) IPA: [ˈpə̀ŋɡɽaː] (listen)) is a type of traditional folk dance of Pu...

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Bharatanatyam

Bharatanatyam (Tamil: பரதநாட்டியம்) is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tam...

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Big Apple (Dance)

The Big Apple is both a partner dance and a circle dance that originated in the Afro-American commun...

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Bihu Dance

The Bihu dance is an indigenous folk dance from the Indian state of Assam related to the Bihu festiv...

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Binasuan

The binasuan is a Filipino folk dance in which the performer holds full wine glasses in each hand wh...

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Biyelgee

Biyelgee (Mongolian Cyrillic: Биелгээ) or Bii (Mongolian Cyrillic: Бий), is a unique form of dance, ...

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Bizhu

The Bizu festival is celebrated by the Chakma people in Bangladesh and India, as the traditional New...

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Black Bottom (Dance)

The black bottom is a dance which became popular during 1920s amid the Jazz Age. It was danced solo ...

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Blues Dance

Blues dancing is a family of historical dances that developed alongside and were danced to blues mus...

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Bolero

Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the t...

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Hindi Cinema

Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-langua...

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Bomba (Ecuador)

Bomba or Bomba del Chota is an Afro-Ecuadorian music, dance and rum al form from the Chota Valley ar...

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Bomba (Puerto Rico)

Bomba is both a traditional dance and musical style of Puerto Rico. Its origins are rooted in the is...

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Bon Odori

Bon Odori (盆踊り), meaning simply "Bon dance", is a style of dancing performed during Obon. It is a fo...

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Bondar (Dance)

Bondar (literally "cooper") is a Ukrainian folk dance of khorovod type (circle dance). Its pattern i...

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Boogaloo

Boogaloo or bugalú (also: shing-a-ling, Latin boogaloo, Latin R&B) is a genre of Latin music and...

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Boogie-woogie (Dance)

Boogie-woogie is a form of swing dance which is closely related to the genre of music of the same na...

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Borborbor

Borborbor is a Ghanaian and Togolese traditional dance performed by the Ewe people from the mid-Volt...

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Border Morris

Border Morris is a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the...

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Borrowdale dance

The Borrowdale dance (also known as the dance of horses) is a Zimbabwean dance named after the horse...

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] (listen)) is a style of samba developed in the l...

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Boston (Dance)

The Boston refers to various step dances, considered a slow Americanized version of the waltz presum...

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Bourrée

The bourrée (Occitan: borrèia;also in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the wo...

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Branle

A branle (/ˈbrænəl, ˈbrɑːl/, French: [bʁɑ̃l] (listen)), also bransle, brangle, brawl, brawle, brall(...

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Brazilian Zouk

Brazilian Zouk is a partner dance which began in Brazil during the early 1990s. Brazilian Zouk evolv...

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Breakaway (Dance)

Breakaway was a swing dance. In the Polka a step called the Coquette (Love Chase) is defined as "The...

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Breakdancing

Breaking, also called breakdancing or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance origi...

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Breton Dance

Breton dance is a group of traditional dance forms originating in Brittany, the Celtic region of Fra...

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Buchaechum

Buchaechum (부채춤), called fan dance, is a Korean fan dance originating from various traditional and r...

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Bugaku

Bugaku (舞楽, court dance and music) is a Japanese traditional dance that has been performed to select...

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Bugg

Bugg is a common dance style in Sweden and is very popular on the dancefloors, when dansbands play. ...

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Bump (Dance)

The Bump is a form of popular dance introduced in the 1970s in the United States. Two partners, gene...

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Bunny hop (Dance)

The bunny hop is a novelty dance created at Balboa High School in San Francisco in 1952. It is a mix...

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Buta Kola

Bhoota Kola is an Animist form of Spirit worship from the coastal districts of Tulu Nadu and some pa...

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Butoh

Butoh (舞踏, Butō) is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities,...

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Butterfly Dance

The butterfly dance is a dance move in which the dancer's legs move like butterfly wings; it can als...

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Nihon-buyō

Nihon-buyō (日本舞踊, lit. 'Japanese dance') refers to the classical Japanese performing art of dance.  ...

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Byeongsin chum

Byeongsin chum (Korean: 병신춤, lit. the dance of the handicapped) is a Korean folk dance that was perf...

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Bygdedans

Bygdedans (or village dance) is the regional, traditional dance of Norway. Bygdedans are the oldest ...

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Cabbage Patch (Dance)

Cabbage Patch is a dance which involves extending your arms out while making fists with each hand an...

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Cachucha

Cachucha is a Spanish solo dance in 3 4 or 3 8 time, similar to the bolero. Cachucha is danced to an...

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Cajun music

Cajun music (French: Musique cadienne), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is ro...

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Cakalele Dance

Cakalele dance (pronounced "cha-ka-leh-leh", spelled tjakalele by the Dutch) is a war dance from Nor...

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Cakewalk

The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" (dance contests with a cake awarded as the...

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Calabrian Tarantella

Calabrian Tarantella (in italian: Tarantella Calabrese or "Sonu a ballu": playing for dancing) is a ...

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Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early t...

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Can-can

The Galop infernal, more commonly known as the can-can (also spelled cancan as in the original Frenc...

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Canary Dance

The Canary dance (known as Canario in Italian sources, Canarie in French ones) was a Renaissance dan...

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Candle Dance

The candle dance (Indonesian: Tari Lilin, Malay: Tarian Lilin) is an Indonesian dance performed by a...

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Candombe

Candombe is a style of music and dance that originated in Uruguay among the descendants of liberated...

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Capoeira

Capoeira (Portuguese pronunciation: [kapuˈe(j)ɾɐ]) is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of...

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Caporales

The Caporales is a traditional Andean dance originated in Los Yungas of La Paz. Caporales were creat...

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Carabinier (Dance)

The Carabinier (Haitian Creole: Karabinye, English: carabineer) is a traditional cultural dance from...

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Carimbó

Carimbó is a Brazilian dance. The dance was common in the northern part of Brazil, from the time tha...

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Cariñosa

The cariñosa (Spanish pronunciation: [kaɾiˈɲosa], meaning loving or affectionate) is a Philippine da...

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Carioca (1933 song)

"The Carioca" is a 1933 popular song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Edward Eliscu and G...

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Carnavalito

The Carnavalito (English: little carnival) is a traditional indigenous dance from the Argentinian Al...

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Carpaea

Carpaea or Karpaea (Ancient Greek: Καρπαία and Κάρπεα) among the Aenianians, Magnesians, and Macedon...

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Castle Walk

Castle Walk is a dance originated and made famous by Vernon and Irene Castle. The Castle Walk became...

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Cat Daddy

"Cat Daddy" is a 2011 song by American hip hop group The Rej3ctz. It is based on a dance of the same...

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Călușari

The Călușari (Romanian: Călușari, Romanian pronunciation: [kəluˈʃarʲ]; Bulgarian: Калушари or Русали...

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Ceili Dance

Céilí dances (/ˈkeɪli/, Irish: [ˈceːlʲiː]) or true éilí dances (fíor céilí) are a popular form of fo...

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Cendrawasih dance

The cendrawasih dance is a Balinese dance which is performed by two female dancers and illustrates t...

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Ceroc

Ceroc is an international dance club with more than 200 venues across the UK as well as national and...

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Chaabi

Chaabi (الشعبي in Arabic), also known as Chaâbi, Sha-bii, or Sha'bii meaning "folk", refers to diffe...

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Chacarera

The Chacarera is a dance and music that originated in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. It is a genre ...

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Cha-cha-cha (Dance)

The cha-cha-cha (also called cha-cha), is a dance of Cuban origin. It is danced to the music of the ...

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Chaconne

A chaconne (/ʃəˈkɒn/; French: [ʃakɔn]; Spanish: chacona; Italian: ciaccona, pronounced [tʃakˈkoːna];...

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Chaiti ghoda

Chaiti ghoda is one of the popular folk dance forms of Odisha specially performed by aboriginal fish...

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Chakacha

Chakacha is a traditional music and dance style (a ngoma) of the Swahili people of coastal Kenya and...

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Chakkirako

Chakkirako (Japanese: チャッキラコ) is a dance performed at a festival in Miura, Japan, to celebrate the N...

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Chamamé

Chamamé (Guarani for: party, disorder) is a folk music genre from Northeast Argentina and Argentinia...

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Chang Lo

Chang Lo dance is performed by Chang tribe of Nagaland. They perform it to celebrate their victory a...

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Chapelloise

The Chapelloise is a traditional folk dance with change of partners (a so-called Mixer), belonging t...

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Charikawi

The charikawi is a traditional mimed dance of the Garifuna, in which a hunter encounters a cave man ...

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Charkula

Charkula is a dance performed in the Braj region of Uttar Pradesh.   In this dance, veiled women bal...

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Charleston (Dance)

The Charleston is a dance named after the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was ...

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Hasapiko

The hasapiko (Greek: χασάπικο, pronounced [xaˈsapiko], meaning “the butcher's [dance]”) is a Greek f...

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Cheoyongmu

Cheoyongmu is a representative Korean mask dance based on the legend of Cheoyong (처용, 處容), a son of ...

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Cheraw Dance

Cheraw dance is a traditional cultural dance performed in Mizoram, India, consisting of mostly six t...

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Chicken Dance

The "Chicken Dance", also known and recorded as Der Ententanz, Tchip Tchip, Vogerltanz, the Bird Son...

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Chicken Noodle Soup (Webstar and Young B song)

"Chicken Noodle Soup" is a song by American recording artists from Webstar and Young B. The song was...

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Chhau Dance

Chhau dance, also spelled Chhou dance, is a semi classical Indian dance with martial and folk tradit...

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Chhayam

Chhayam (Khmer: ឆៃយ៉ាំ) is a traditional Khmer musical dance.

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Chholiya

Chholiya (or Chhaliya; Kumaoni: छलिया) is a dance form which originated in the Kumaon division in st...

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Choobazi

Choobazi is one of the Lorry dances and mostly common among "Bakhtiari lorr" and some common among v...

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Choreia

Choreia (Ancient Greek: χορεία) is a circle dance accompanied by singing (see Greek chorus, choros),...

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Chukano horo

Chukano horo (Rhodopes) - Чукано хоро (Родопи) is a Pomaks dance from the region of Rhodopes, now in...

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Chukchu

Chukchu (Quechua for malaria) is the name of a festival and a satirical dance of the Andes region in...

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Ch'unchu (Dance)

Ch'unchu is a folk dance in Peru. It is performed on festivals of the Cusco Region like Mamacha Carm...

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Chula (Music)

Chula is a dance and music genre which originated in Portugal, dating at least from the eighteenth c...

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Chumak (Dance)

Chumak (Ukrainian: Чyмaк) is a popular folk dance from Ukraine. In it, the dancers reenact the lives...

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Chumba

Chumba is a traditional form of music and dance performed by the Garifuna people in several Central ...

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Chunaengjeon

Chunaengjeon or Dance of Spring Oriole (춘앵전) is a Korean court dance (jeongjae) created during the l...

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Cibi

The Cibi ([ˈðimbi]) is a Fijian meke of Bauan origin and war dance, generally performed before or af...

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Cilveloy

Cilveloy or Jilveloi (Turkish: Cilveloy, Georgian: ჯილველოი), is a form of the Anatolian folk dance ...

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Galliard

The galliard (/ˈɡæljərd/; French: gaillarde; Italian: gagliarda) was a form of Renaissance dance and...

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Circassian music

Circassian music refers to the traditional songs and instruments of the Circassians.

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Circle Dance

Circle dance, or chain dance, is a style of social dance done in a circle, semicircle or a curved li...

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Cirebonese mask dance

Cirebonese mask dance (Indonesian: Tari Topeng Cirebon) is a local indigenous art form of Cirebon in...

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Clog Dancing

Clog dancing is a form of step dance characterised by the wearing of inflexible, wooden soled clogs....

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Clogging

Clogging is a type of folk dance practiced in the United States, in which the dancer's footwear is u...

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Clown

A clown is a person who wears a unique makeup-face and flamboyant costume, performing comedy in a st...

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Clutha (Dance)

Clutha is a Scottish country dance, in which the eight dancers are arranged in a square set as for t...

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Čoček

Čoček (Albanian: çyçek/qyqek; Serbian and Macedonian: чочек, romanized: čoček; Bulgarian: кючек, rom...

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Cocolo (Dance)

Cocolo is a dance drama tradition practiced in the Dominican Republic. It has been inscribed on the ...

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Collegiate shag

The Collegiate Shag (or "Shag") is a partner dance done primarily to uptempo swing and pre-swing jaz...

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Compas

Compas Direct (French pronunciation: ​[kɔ̃pa]; Haitian Creole: konpa) is a modern méringue dance mus...

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Condong

Condong is a Balinese dance which is often performed as a preface to legong and accompanied by the s...

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Conga line

The conga line is a novelty line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same na...

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Contact improvisation

Contact improvisation is a form of improvised dancing that has been developing internationally since...

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Contemporary Dance

Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century a...

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Contra Dance

Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a form of folk dancing ...

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Cordax

The cordax (Ancient Greek: κόρδαξ), was a provocative, licentious, and often obscene mask dance of a...

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Cornish Dance

Cornish dance (Cornish: Donsyow kernewek) originates from Cornwall, UK. It has largely been shaped b...

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Corridinho

The corridinho is a form of Portuguese folk dance, namely in the Algarve region. The origin of the d...

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Corrido (Spain)

A corrido is a traditional style of dance and music of Spain. In some areas of Castilla, this form w...

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Hopak

Hopak (Ukrainian: гопа́к, IPA: [ɦoˈpɑk]) is a Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among...

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Cotillion

The cotillion (also cotillon or French country dance) is a social dance, popular in 18th-century Eur...

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Country–Western Dance

Country–western dance encompasses any of the dance forms or styles which are typically danced to cou...

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Country dance

A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in the Brit...

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Country-Western Two-Step

The country/western two-step, often called the "Texas two-step"or simply the "two-step," is a countr...

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Coupé-décalé

Coupé-décalé (French pronunciation: ​[kupe dekale]) is a type of popular dance music originating in ...

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Courante

The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre d...

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Historical Dance

Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance ...

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Crip Walk

The Crip Walk, also known as the C-Walk, is a dance move that was created in the 1970s by first gene...

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Crnogorka (Dance)

Crnogorka (Црногорка) is a Macedonian oro from the Skopje region.   It is a vivid mixed man and woma...

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Crpi voda, Jano

Crpi voda, Jano (Црпи вода, Јано; English: Draw water, Jana) is a traditional Macedonian Oro folk da...

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Csárdás

Csárdás (/ˈtʃɑːrdæʃ/, US: /-dɑːʃ/; Hungarian: [ˈt͡ʃaːrdaːʃ]), often seen as Czárdás, is a traditiona...

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Cuarteto

Cuarteto (Spanish: quartet), sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argent...

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Cuban rumba

Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the ...

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Cuban salsa

In Cuba, a popular dance known as Casino was marketed abroad as Cuban-style salsa or Salsa Cubana to...

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Cueca

Cueca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkweka]) is a family of musical styles and associated dances from Chi...

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Cumbia

Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally i...

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Cumbia villera

Cumbia villera (locally [ˈkumbja βiˈʒeɾa] or [ˈkumbja βiˈʃeɾa]) (roughly translated as "slum cumbia"...

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Cupid Shuffle

"Cupid Shuffle" is a song by Cupid from his 2007 studio album Time for a Change. It has spawned a po...

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Dab (Dance)

Dabbing, or the dab, is a simple gesture in which a person drops their head into the bent crook of a...

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Dabke

Dabke (Arabic: دبكة also spelled dabka, dubki, dabkeh, plural dabkaat) is a Levantine folk dance mai...

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Dalkhai

Dalkhai is a popular folk dance of the Adivasis of Odisha, India.

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Dance of Osman Taka

The Dance of Osman Taka (Albanian: Vallja Çame e Osman Takës); Greek: Οσμαντάκας or Σαμαντάκας) is a...

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Dancer's Delight

Dancer's Delight is a Scottish soft-shoe step dance devised in 1964 to commemorate the first anniver...

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Dances of Universal Peace

The Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) are a spiritual practice that employs singing and dancing the sa...

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Danda Nata

Danda Naata or Danda Jatra (Odia: ଦଣ୍ଡ ନାଟ, ଦଣ୍ଡ ଯାତ୍ରା)is one of the most important traditional dan...

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Dandiya Raas

Raas or Dandiya Raas is the socio-religious folk dance originating from Indian state of Gujarat and ...

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Danza de los Viejitos

'Danza de los Viejitos' (dance of the old men) is a traditional folk dance in Michoacán, Mexico.

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Danza de los Voladores

The Danza de los Voladores (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdansa ðe loz βolaˈðoɾes]; "Dance of the Flyers"...

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Danza de tijeras

The Danza de las tijeras (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdansa ðe tiˈxeɾas]; English: scissors dance; Quec...

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Danzantes de Levanto

Los Danzantes de Levanto is a typical dance from the Amazonas Region, Peru. Levanto is a little town...

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Danzón

Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba. It is also an active musical form in Mexico,...

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Dappankuthu

Dappankuthu (or simply Kuthu) is a folk dance and music genre with an emphasis on percussion perform...

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Dashing White Sergeant

The Dashing White Sergeant is a Scottish country dance, performed to a similarly titled piece of mus...

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Daychovo horo

Daychovo horo (Bulgarian: Дайчово хopo) is a Bulgarian folk dance done to a nine-beat meter. It is u...

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Deer dance (Folk Dance)

A deer dance is any of the world's folk dances performed by people dressed as deer.

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Deknni

Deknni (also spelled dekni, dekṇi, dekhṇi) is a semi classical Goan dance form. The plural of dekṇi ...

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Deodhani dance

Deodhani dance (Assamese: দেওধনী নৃত্য) is a Shaman folk dance from the Indian state of Assam. It ca...

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Devil's Sword Dance

The Devil's Sword Dance (鬼剣舞, onikenbai) is a sword dance usually performed by a group of eight danc...

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Dhaanto

Dhaanto is a style of traditional Somali music and folk dance. It is cultural folk dance native to S...

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Dhalo

Dhalo is a popular ritual folk dance form Goa, India. The dance is performed by women and serves as ...

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Dhamail

Dhamal (Bengali: ধামাল), better known as dhamail (Bengali: ধামাইল), is a form of folk music and danc...

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Dhimsa

Dhimsa is a tribal dance form that is performed primarily by Porja caste women in Andhra Pradesh .  ...

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Diablada

The Diablada, also known as the Danza de los Diablos (English: Dance of the Devils), is an Andean fo...

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Halay

Halay is the national dance of Turkey and a regional category of folk dance styles in central, south...

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Dipat

Dipat is a Greek spiritual dance. It is the second-most popular Pontian dance, behind only the Horon...

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Diplos horos

The Diplos Horos (Greek: Διπλός Χορός) is a dance from Messenia in the Peloponnese, Greece. It is a ...

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Dirk dance

A dirk dance is a Scottish dance performed while brandishing a dirk. It is a solo dance but can be p...

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' u...

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Discofox

Discofox or disco fox is a social partner dance which evolved in Europe in the mid-1970s as a redisc...

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Djolé

Djolé (also known as Jolé or Yolé) is a mask-dance from Temine people in Sierra Leone. It is played ...

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Dollu Kunitha

Dollu Kunitha (Kannada:ಡೊಳ್ಳು ಕುಣಿತ), is a major popular drum dance of Karnataka.

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Domkach

Domkach is a folk dance of Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand. In Bihar, Domkach dance is performe...

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Domni

Domni is a dance performed in West Bengal of India.   This dance form is mainly based on drama. Role...

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Double bugg

Double bugg (Swedish: Dubbelbugg) is a Swedish swing dance.

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Dougie

The Dougie (/ˈdʌɡi/ (listen) DUG-ee) is a hip hop dance generally performed by moving one's body in ...

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Dragon dance

Dragon dance (simplified Chinese: 舞龙; traditional Chinese: 舞龍; pinyin: wǔ lóng) is a form of traditi...

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Duke of Perth (Reel)

The Duke of Perth, also known as Broun's Reel, is a traditional Scottish reel, played in G major. Al...

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Dumhal

Dumhal is a dance performed in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir by the Watal tribe. Only th...

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Dunhuang dance

Dunhuang Dance is a form of Chinese classical dance which combines traditional culture and modern ar...

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Duranguense

Duranguense is a genre of Regional Mexican music. It is a hybrid of Technobanda and Tamborazo. Its p...

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Dutty Wine

The Dutty Wine is a Jamaican dance, typically performed by young women. The dance originated in Jama...

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Earsdon Sword Dance

The Earsdon Sword Dance is a traditional English folk dance performed by the Royal Earsdon Sword Dan...

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East Coast Swing

East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance. It belongs to the group of swing dances. I...

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Écossaise

The Écossaise (in French: Scottish) is a musical form and a type of contradanse in a Scottish style ...

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Ecstatic dance

Ecstatic dance is a form of dance in which the dancers, sometimes without the need to follow specifi...

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Egg dance

An egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal...

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Eisa (Dance)

Eisa (Okinawan: エイサー, Eisaa) is a form of folk dance originating from the Okinawa Islands, Japan. In...

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Electro dance

French Electro dance (otherwise known as Tecktonik and Milky Way) is one style of frenetic and quirk...

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Electric Slide

The Electric (better known as The Electric Slide) is a four wall line dance set to Marcia Griffiths ...

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Endeka Kozanis

Endeka Kozanis is a traditional Greek dance, mostly danced at the region of Kozani. According to one...

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Country dance

A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in the Brit...

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Entarisi ala benziyor

Entarisi ala benziyor (Turkish: Entarisi ala benziyor),(Greek: Αραμπάς περνά(Arabas perna)),(Greek: ...

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Errenzhuan

Errenzhuan or two-people rotation (simplified Chinese: 二人转; traditional Chinese: 二人轉; pinyin: Èrrénz...

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Eskista

Eskista (Amharic: እስክስታ) is a traditional Ethiopian cultural dance from the Amhara ethnic group perf...

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Espringale

Espringale is Old French for a medieval jumping-dance. It distinct from the Old French carole, a rou...

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Etighi

Etighi is a Nigerian dance. The etighi dance was founded by the Akwa Ibom people. The dance requires...

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Fa'ataupati

The Fa'ataupati is a dance indigenous to the Samoans. In English it is simply the "Samoan Slap Dance...

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Fan dance

In the West, a fan dance (i.e., a dance performed with fans) may be an erotic dance performance, tra...

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Fandango

Fandango is a lively partner dance originating from Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, tra...

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Fanga (Dance)

Fanga is a dance "interpretation of a traditional Liberian invocation to the earth and sky". The dan...

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Farandole

The Farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in Provence, France. The Farandole bears simi...

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Faroese chain dance

The Faroese chain dance (Faroese: Føroyskur dansur, Danish: Kædedans) is the national circle dance o...

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Farruca

Farruca (Spanish pronunciation: [faˈruka]) is a form of flamenco music developed in the late 19th ce...

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Festejo

Festejo (from Spanish 'fiesta') is a festive form of Afro-Peruvian music. The dance is a staple in t...

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Fisounis

Fisounis is a Greek dance. Kostas Mitsis who has researched the dances of Preveza and Epirus writes ...

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Flamenco

Flamenco (Spanish pronunciation: [flaˈmeŋko]), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the v...

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Floss (Dance)

The floss is a popular dance move in which a person repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fist...

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Folk dance

A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all...

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Formation dance

Formation dance is a style of ballroom dancing. It is pattern or shadow team dancing by couples in a...

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Forró

The term forró (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɔˈʁɔ]*) refers to a musical genre, a rhythm, a dance and...

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Foxtrot

The foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements acros...

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Grinding (Dance)

Grinding, also known as juking, freak dancing or freaking (in the Caribbean, wining) is a type of cl...

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Freddie (Dance)

The Freddie was a short-lived 1960s fad dance prompted by the release of the songs "I'm Telling You ...

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Frevo

Frevo is a dance and musical style originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, traditionally associ...

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Frug (Dance)

The Frug  was a dance craze from the mid-1960s, which included vigorous dance to pop music. It evolv...

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Dance improvisation

Dance improvisation is the process of spontaneously creating movement. Development of movement mater...

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Fugdi

Fugdi is a Maharashtra and Goan folk dance performed by the women in the Konkan region during Hindu ...

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Funaná

The funaná [funɐˈna] is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. Funaná is an accordion-based music....

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Furiant

A furiant is a rapid and fiery Bohemian dance in alternating 2/4 and 3/4 time, with frequently shift...

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Furlana

The furlana (also spelled furlane, forlane, friulana, forlana) is an Italian folk dance from the Ita...

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Gainjeonmokdan

Gainjeonmokdan (Korean pronunciation: [ka.in dʑʌmoktan]) is a Korean court dance (called jeongjae 정재...

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Gair dance

Gair dance is one of the popular, famous folk dances from Rajasthan in India which is mostly perform...

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Gaitanaki

Gaitanaki (Greek: γαϊτανάκι) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece. It is a circle d...

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Galop

In dance, the galop, named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened versi...

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Gambuh

Gambuh is one of the oldest surviving forms in Balinese performing arts,dating to the late Majapahit...

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Gammaldans

Gammaldans (Swedish) or Gammeldans (Danish and Norwegian) (literally "old dance") is a small set of ...

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Gandrung

Gandrung is a traditional dance from Indonesia. Gandrung has many variations and is popular in Bali,...

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Ganggangsullae

Ganggangsullae (Hangul: 강강술래) is an ancient Korean dance that was first used to bring about a bounti...

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Gankino horo

Gankino horo (Bulgarian: Ганкино хоро, lit. 'Ganka’s dance') is a Bulgarian folk dance written in 11...

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Gangnam Style

"Gangnam Style" (Korean: 강남스타일, IPA: [kaŋ.nam sɯ.tʰa.il]) is a K-pop song by South Korean rapper Psy...

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Garadi

Garadi is a popular folk dance of Puducherry.   The dance has a mythological origin and it is perfor...

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Garba (Dance)

Garba is a form of dance which originates from the state of Gujarat in India. The name is derived fr...

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Garland dance

Garland dancing is an English dance tradition that began in the 19th century in North England's mill...

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Gato (Artform)

The gato (Spanish for cat) is a style of Argentine music and Uruguayan music and the associated danc...

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Gaudiya Nritya

Gaudiya Nritya (Bengali: গৌড়ীয় নৃত্য, IAST: Gaur̤īẏa Nṛtya) or Gôuriyo Nrityô, is a Bengali dance ...

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Gaur Maria Dance

Gaur Maria dance is performed in plateau of Bastar in Chhattisgarh. It is performed on the occasion ...

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Gavotte

The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of...

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Gay Gordons (Dance)

The Gay Gordons is a Scottish country dance.

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Gending Sriwijaya

Gending Sriwijaya is the name of the traditional performance whether it is a song, music, as well as...

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Geommu

Geommu (also transliterated Gummu, Kommu) is a traditional sword dance practiced in Korea. Geommu is...

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Gerontikos

Gerontikos (Greek: γεροντικός) is the Greek name for the traditional Starsko Oro (Slavic) dance of t...

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Ghoomar

Ghoomar or ghumar is a traditional folk dance of Rajasthan. It was the Bhil tribe who performed it t...

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Ghumura dance

Ghumura dance is a folk dance of Kalahandi district of the Indian state Odisha. It is classified as ...

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Giddha

Giddha (Punjabi: گدها, ਗਿੱਧਾ, giddhā) is a popular folk dance of women in the Punjab region. The dan...

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Gigue

The gigue (/ʒiːɡ/; French pronunciation: ​[ʒiɡ]) or giga (Italian: [ˈdʒiːɡa]) is a lively baroque da...

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Giknas

Giknas is a folk dance from Orestiada in Thrace. The dance name is derived from the color nail polis...

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Gluvo-nemo

Gluvo-nemo (Глуво-немо) or Deaf-mute dance in English is a Macedonian oro from the region of Mala Re...

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Gombey

The Gombey is an iconic symbol of Bermuda, a unique performance art full of colorful and intricate m...

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Gombhira

Gombhira (or gambhira or gamvira) is a type of song originating in the Bengal region in the eastern ...

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Goravara Kunitha

Goravara Kunitha is a traditional dance of Kuruba Gowdas of Karnataka. Kuruba Gowdas are devotees of...

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Goria dance

Goria dance or Garia dance is a dance of the Tripuri people of the Indian state of Tripura. It is pe...

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Goseong ogwangdae

Goseong ogwangdae (Korean: 고성오광대; Hanja: 固城五廣大) is a Korean traditional masked dance performance whi...

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Gotipua

Gotipua is a traditional dance form in the state of Odisha, India, and the precursor of Odissi class...

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Bulgarian folk dance

Bulgarian folk dances are intimately related to the music of Bulgaria. This distinctive feature of B...

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Grida dance

Grida Dance is performed in a few villages of India.   When the rabi crops are ready, villagers get ...

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Grinding (Dance)

Grinding, also known as juking, freak dancing or freaking (in the Caribbean, wining) is a type of cl...

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Grizzly Bear (Dance)

The Grizzly Bear is an early 20th-century dance style. It started in San Francisco, along with the B...

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Guaguancó

Guaguancó (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaɣwaŋˈko]) is a subgenre of Cuban rumba, combining percussion, ...

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Guapacha (Dance)

Guapacha pronounced "wapacha", is a modern afro-Cuban partner dance that is a fusion of Cha-cha-cha ...

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Gumboot dance

The gumboot dance (or Isicathulo) is a South African dance that is performed by dancers wearing well...

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Gusharaveli

Gusharaveli, also known as Dumsharaveli or Vallja e Detarëve is an Afro-Albanian dance performed onl...

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Hacha'a

Hach'a, also written as Hacha or Hachaa or Hechea (from Iraqi Arabic هَچَع meaning "lying down"), wi...

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Hai-hak dance

The Hai-hak dance is a traditional Indian dance. It originated in Tripura, India.

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Haka

Haka ( plural haka, in both Māori and English) is a ceremonial dance in Māori culture. It is often p...

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Hakken

Hakken (sometimes Hakkûh) is a form of rave dance originating from the Dutch hardcore and gabber sce...

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Halay

Halay is the national dance of Turkey and a regional category of folk dance styles in central, south...

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Halling (Dance)

The Halling (hallingdansen) is a folk dance (bygdedans) traditionally performed in rural Norway, alt...

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Hambo

The hambo is a traditional dance that originated in Sweden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Hand jive

The hand jive is a dance particularly associated with music of the 1950s, rhythm and blues in partic...

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Moshing

Moshing (also known as slam dancing or simply slamming) is an extreme style of dancing in which part...

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Harlem shake (Dance)

The Harlem Shake is a jerky arm and shoulder movement just in time to the music.The dance was create...

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Hasapiko

The hasapiko (Greek: χασάπικο, pronounced [xaˈsapiko], meaning “the butcher's [dance]”) is a Greek f...

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Hatzichristos

Hatzichristos (Greek: Χατζηχρήστος) is a type of a Greek folk dance from Central Greece.

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Headbanging

Headbanging is the action of violently shaking one's head in rhythm with music. It is common in the ...

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Scottish highland dance

Highland dance or Highland dancing (Scottish Gaelic: dannsa Gàidhealach) is a style of competitive d...

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Hip hop dance

Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have ev...

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Hiragasy

Hiragasy or hira gasy (hira: song; gasy: Malagasy) is a musical tradition in Madagascar, particularl...

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Historical dance

Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance ...

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Hitch hike (Dance)

Hitch hike was a dance craze of the 1960s. It started with the 1962 Marvin Gaye hit "Hitch Hike" and...

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Hivinau

The hivinau is a dance from Tahiti where the dancers turn in pairs around the orchestra. It is often...

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Hoedown

A hoedown is a type of American folk dance or square dance in duple meter, and also the musical form...

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Hojagiri

Hojagiri is a folk dance, performed in the state of Tripura, India by Tripuri people of Reang clan. ...

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Hokey Cokey

The Hokey Cokey (United Kingdom, and the Caribbean) also known as Hokey Pokey (Worldwide) is a campf...

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Holubka

Holubka (Ukrainian: Голyбкa) is a popular folk dance from western Ukraine. It is performed by amateu...

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Belly dance

Belly dance (Egyptian Arabic: رقص بلدى, translated: Dance of the Country/Folk Dance, romanized: Raks...

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Hopak

Hopak (Ukrainian: гопа́к, IPA: [ɦoˈpɑk]) is a Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among...

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Hopak-Kolom

Hopak-Kolom (Ukrainian: Гопак-Koлoм) is a popular folk dance from Ukraine. It is similar to the Hopa...

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Hop-tu-Naa (Dance)

Hop-tu-naa is a traditional Manx dance connected to the hop-tu-naa festivities around 31 October in ...

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Hora (Dance)

Hora, also known as horo and oro, is a type of circle dance originating in the Balkans but also foun...

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Horon (Dance)

Horon directly derives from the greek word χορός ,meaning dance, (Laz: horon), or choron, khoron or ...

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Hornpipe

The hornpipe is any of several dance forms played and danced in Britain and Ireland and elsewhere fr...

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House dance

House dance is a freestyle street dance and social dance that has roots in the underground house mus...

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Huaconada

Huaconada (Spanish pronunciation: [wakoˈnaða]) is a ritual dance performed in the village of Mito in...

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Huapango

Huapango is a family of Mexican music styles. The word likely derives from the Nahuatl word cuauhpan...

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Huayno

Huayno (Waynu in Quechua) is a genre of popular Andean music and dance. It is especially common in P...

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Hula

Hula (/ˈhuːlə/) is a Hawaiian dance form accompanied by chant (oli) or song (mele). It was developed...

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Pili Yesa

Pili Vesha in (Tulu: ಪಿಲಿ ಏಸ) "Tiger Masque" is a folk dance unique in coastal Karnataka. Pilivēṣa i...

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Hully Gully

The Hully Gully is a type of unstructured line dance often considered to have originated in the sixt...

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Humppa

Humppa is a type of music from Finland. It is related to jazz and very fast foxtrot, played two beat...

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Hunguhungu

Hunguhungu or fedu is a form of traditional swaying circular dance performed by the women of the Gar...

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Hustle (Dance)

The hustle is a catch-all name for some disco dances which were extremely popular in the 1970s. Toda...

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Hutsulka

The Hutsulka (Ukrainian: Гyцyлкa) is a popular Ukrainian folk dance from southwestern Ukraine. It is...

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Hyporchema

The hyporchema (Greek: ὑπόρχημα) was a lively kind of mimic dance which accompanied the songs used i...

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Ikariotikos

Ikariotikos (Greek: Ικαριώτικος) or Kariotikos (Greek: Καριώτικος, sometimes written with an apostro...

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Improvisational Team Synchronization

Improvisational Team Synchronization, Improv Team Sync, or ITS (formerly Improvisational Tribal Styl...

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Indlamu (Dance)

Indlamu (Zulu pronunciation: [ind͡ɮaːmu], Afrikaans: Zoeloedans) is a traditional Zulu dance from So...

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Innaby

Innaby (Azerbaijani: İnnabı) is an Azerbaijani national dance in 6/8 time. Young women and girls per...

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Sacred dance

Sacred dance is the use of dance in religious ceremonies and rituals, present in most religions thro...

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International folk dance

International folk dance includes Balkan dance, Middle Eastern dance, contra dance, Hungarian dance,...

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Interpretive dance

Interpretive dance is a family of modern dance styles that began around 1900 with Isadora Duncan. It...

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Irish dance

Irish dance refers to a group of traditional dance forms originating from Ireland, encompassing danc...

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Sean-nós dance

Sean-nós dance (/ˈʃænoʊs/ SHAN-ohss; Irish: damhsa ar an sean nós [ˈd̪ˠəusˠə ɛɾʲ ə ˈʃan̪ˠ n̪ˠoːsˠ], ...

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Irish stepdance

Irish stepdance is a style of performance dance with its roots in traditional Irish dance. It is gen...

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Isios

Isios is a folk dance on Kalymnos Green   The Isios Horos (meaning straight dance) as it is called b...

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Isos Sinasos

Isos Sinasos is a characteristic dance of the region and area.[clarification needed] Like many other...

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Israeli folk dance

Israeli folk dance (Hebrew: ריקודי עם, rikudei 'am, lit. "Folk dances") is a form of dance usually p...

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Ja'i

Ja'i is an Indonesian dance used in Sa'o Ngaza rites to express gratitude and excitement. The dance ...

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Janger dance

Janger dance is one of the most popular dances from Bali, Indonesia The term roughly translates to '...

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Jangi (Dance)

Jangi (Azerbaijani: Cəngi) is a national male dance of Azerbaijan.

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Jarabe Tapatío

Jarabe tapatío, often referred to as the Mexican hat dance, is the national dance of Mexico. It orig...

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Jarana yucateca

The jarana is the typical dance and musical form of the Yucatan Peninsula. There exists two forms of...

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Java (Dance)

Java is a dance which was developed in France in the early part of the 20th century. The origin of i...

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Jazz dance

Jazz dance is a performance dance and style that arose in the United States in the mid 20th century....

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Jenkka

Jenkka (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjeŋkːɑ]) is a fast Finnish partner dance found in Finnish folk danc...

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Jerkin'

Jerkin' or Jerk is a street dance originating from and popularized by the Inland Empire-based groups...

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Jhijhiya

Jhijhiya is a cultural dance from the historical and cultural Mithila region, located in present–day...

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Jhum dance

Jhum dance is a dance of Tripura, India. It is typically performed by girls and boys.

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Jhumair

Jhumair or Jhumar is an Indian folk dance from the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, ...

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Jhumar

Jhumar or Jhoomar (also called Ghumbar in Sandalbar area) is a lively form of music and dance that o...

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Jig

The jig (Irish: port, Scottish Gaelic: port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre...

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Jitterbug

Jitterbug is a generalized term used to describe swing dancing. It is often synonymous with the lind...

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Jive (Dance)

The jive is a dance style that originated in the United States from African Americans in the early 1...

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Joged dance

Joged dance is a style of dance from the Island of Bali derived from the traditional Gandrung dance....

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Joget

Joget (Jawi: جوڬيت) is a traditional Malay dance that originated in Malacca. It was influenced by th...

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John Wall Dance

The John Wall Dance is a dance performed by flexing the arms and twisting the wrist. American basket...

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Gangsta Walking

Gangsta Walking (often referred to as: G-Walk , Buckin, Tickin, Jookin, or Choppin) is a street danc...

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Jota (Music)

The jota  is a genre of music and the associated dance known throughout Spain, most likely originati...

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Yove male mome

Yove male mome (Bulgarian: Йове мале моме; Jove male mome, Jove malaj mome, "Jova, little girl"), al...

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Juego de maní

Juego de maní ('game of war') often simply called maní or mani, sometimes referred to as baile de ma...

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Jumpstyle

Jumpstyle is an electronic dance style and music genre popular in Western Europe, with existent scen...

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Kabasaran

Kabasaran is a traditional Minahasan martial art and war dance from North Sulawesi in Indonesia. It ...

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Kachāshī

Kachāshī (カチャーシー), sometimes romanized as katcharsee, is a form of festive Okinawan folk dance. In O...

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Kakilambe

Kakilambe or Kaki lambe (sometimes spelled as "Kalilambe") is an African dance. It is a ritual dance...

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Kalamatianos

The Kalamatianós (Greek: Καλαματιανός) is one of the best known dances of Greece. It is a popular Gr...

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Kalbelia

The Kalbelia are a snake charming tribe from the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India.The dance is an int...

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Kalikapatadi

Kalikapatadi is a dance mostly performed in West Bengal state of India.   This form is based on stor...

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Kalymnikos

Kalymnikos is a dance from the Greek island of Kalymnos in the Aegean Sea.   This European dance-rel...

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Kamarinskaya

Kamarinskaya (Russian: камаринская) is a Russian traditional folk dance, which is mostly known today...

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Kamilierikos

Kamilierikos (Greek: καμηλιέρικος χορός) or kamilieriko, is a kind of a Greek traditional dance, sim...

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Kamrupi dance

Kamrupi dance is group of dances originating in ancient Kamrup, forming one of the cultural norm of ...

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Kancet Papatai

Kancet Papatai is a traditional Indonesian war dance about a war hero (or Dayak Kenyah) and his stru...

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Kanella

Kanella (Greek: Κανέλλα), is a Cretan folk dance from Rethymno, Greece. It is very widespread in Cre...

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Kangeli

Kangeli (Greek: καγκέλι) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece.

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Kangilu

Kangeelu or Kangilu is a traditional folk dance of particular significance to the Udupi and Karnatak...

82
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Kaosikii dance

The Kaosikii or Kaos'ikii dance is a dance invented on September 6, 1978 by the Indian philosopher a...

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Kapitan Louka

Kapetan Louka or Kapitan Louka (Greek: Καπετάν Λουκάς) is a dance from the region of Macedonia in Gr...

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Karakattam

Karakaattam (Tamil: கரகாட்டம் or "karakam (கரகம் 'water pot') dance") is an ancient folk dance of Ta...

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Karana (Dance)

Karanas are the 108 key transitions in the classical Indian dance described in 4th Chapter named "Ta...

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Karikázó

Karikázó is a Hungarian folk dance traditionally performed by women. It is a circle dance in 4/4 tim...

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Karma Naach

Karma dance or Karma Naach is a traditional dance of central and Eastern India annually performed du...

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Karsilamas

Karsilamas (From Turkish: karşılama, in Greek: καρσιλαμάς) is a Turkish folk dance spread all over N...

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Kastorianos

Kastorianos (Greek: Καστοριανός) is a kind of a Greek folk dance from Macedonia, Greece. It is very ...

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Kaşık Havası

Kaşık Havası (tr), Kaşık Oyunları (tr), Χορός κουταλιών (el) (Turkish and Greek, meaning 'spoon rhyt...

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Kathak

Kathak is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance.It is the classical dance form of U...

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Kathakali

Kathakali (Malayalam: കഥകളി) is a major form of classical Indian dance. It is a "story play" genre o...

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Katsabadianos

Katsabadianos (Greek: Κατσαμπαδιανός), is a folk dance with Cretan origin. It is very widespread in ...

55
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Kebyar duduk

Kebyar Duduk is a Balinese dance created by I Mario [fr] and first performed in 1925. Inspired by th...

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Kecak

Kecak (pronounced pronounced , alternate spellings: kechak and ketjak), known in Indonesian as tari ...

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Kechagiadikos

Kechagiadikos is a circle dance done on the Island of Lemnos in Greece. The dance is done free hold ...

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Keisabadi

Keisabadi is a type of dance performed in Odisha. This type of dance is performed only by men. Durin...

55
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Kenshibu

Kenshibu (剣詩舞, meaning 'sword and poetry dancing') is a category of Japanese interpretive dances per...

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Kerala Natanam

Kerala Natanam (കേരള നടനം) (Kerala Dance) is a new style of dance that is now recognised as a distin...

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Kerkiraikos

Kerkiraikos (Greek: Κερκυραϊκός), also called Rouga and Perdika, is a form of a Greek folk dance fro...

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Khaleegy (Dance)

Khaleegy' or Khaliji (from Arabic خليج) is a mixture of modern style and traditional folkloric dance...

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Khanchobany (Dance)

Khanchobany (Azerbaijani: Xançobanı) – is a national Azerbaijani dance, performed by men to fast nat...

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Hasapiko

The hasapiko (Greek: χασάπικο, pronounced [xaˈsapiko], meaning “the butcher's [dance]”) is a Greek f...

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Khattak dance

Khattak Attan (Dance) (Pashto: خټک اتڼ [xaˈʈak], Urdu: رقص خٹک ) is a swift martial attan dance usua...

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Khigga

Khigga is a style of Assyrian folk dance in which multiple dancers hold each other's hands and form ...

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Khon

Khon (Thai: โขน, pronounced [kʰǒːn]) is a dance drama genre from Thailand. Khon has been performed s...

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Khorovod

The khorovod or horovod (Russian: хорово́д, IPA: [xərɐˈvot], Ukrainian: хоровод, romanized: khorovod...

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Khorumi

The Khorumi (Georgian: ხორუმი) is a war dance that originated in the region of Guria/Adjara, which i...

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Kikkli

Kikkli (Punjabi: ਕਿੱਕਲੀ, pronounced: kick-lee), also spelled as Kikli, is one of the folk dances of ...

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Kinigitos

Kinigitos (Greek: κυνηγητός) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thrace, Greece.

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Kizomba

Kizomba is a genre of dance and a musical genre originating in Angola in 1984.   Kizomba means "part...

129
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Kleistos

Kleistos horos is a circle dance from Thessaly. The dance is performed in a circle with the men lead...

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Klezmer

Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and...

119
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Klompendansen

Traditional dancing in the Netherlands is often called "Folkloristisch", sometimes "Boerendansen" ("...

156
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Kochari

Kochari (Armenian: Քոչարի, romanized: K’očari, Azerbaijani: Köçəri, Greek: Κότσαρι, romanized: Kόtsa...

154
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Koftos

Koftos (Greek: Κοφτός) is a lively Greek dance typical of the areas of Thessaly, Epirus and central ...

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Kolannalu

Kolannalu or kolkolannalu (also named kolattam), 'stick dance', is one of the most popular dance nar...

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Kolata

Kolata (ಕೋಲಾಟ) is the traditional folk dance of the state of Karnataka, located in Southern India on...

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Kolbastı

Kolbastı is a popular Turkish dance. It was originally created in the 1930s in the seaport of Trabzo...

65
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Kolo (Dance)

Kolo (Serbian Cyrillic: Коло) is a South Slavic circle dance, found under this name in Bosnia and He...

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Kolomyika

he kolomyika (Ukrainian: кoлoмийкa, Polish: kołomyjka; also spelled kolomeyka or kolomeike) is a Hut...

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Kontradans

Kontradans or the French-Haitian Contredanse, is creolized dance music formed in the 18th century in...

141
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Kopačka (Folk Dance)

Kopačka (Macedonian: Копачка; English: The farmers dance) is a traditional Macedonian Oro, folk danc...

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Kopanitsa

Kopanitsa or kopanica (called in some regions Gankino) is the name for a family of lively folk dance...

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Körtánc

Körtánc is a style of Hungarian folk dance which originated in Nyitra County, now in Slovakia. It is...

81
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Kochari

Kochari (Armenian: Քոչարի, romanized: K’očari, Azerbaijani: Köçəri, Greek: Κότσαρι, romanized: Kόtsa...

70
(0)
Koutsos

he Koutsos (Greek: Κουτσός) is a folk dance from Didymoteicho, Greece. It is very widespread in Mace...

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Kōwakamai

TKōwakamai (幸若舞) is a Japanese recitative dance, originating in the 15th century and popular during ...

85
(0)
Kozachok

Kozachok (Ukrainian: кoзачо́к) or Kazachok (Russian: казачо́к) is a traditional Ukrainian folk dance...

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Kpanlogo

Kpanlogo is a recreational dance and music form originating from the 1960s among urban youth in Accr...

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Krakowiak

The Krakowiak or Cracovienne is a fast, syncopated Polish folk dance in duple time from the region o...

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Krishnanattam

Krishnaattam (Malayalam: കൃഷ്ണാട്ടം, IAST: Kṛṣṇanāṭṭaṃ) is a temple art in Kerala, India. It is a da...

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Kromanti dance

Kromanti dance or Kromanti play (capitalised to Kromanti Dance or Kromanti Play) is a Jamaican Maroo...

158
(0)
Krumping

Krumping is a style of street dance popularized in the United States, described as Afro-diasporic da...

115
(0)
Kuchipudi

Kuchipudi (/kuːtʃiˈpuːdi/)( Telugu: కూచిపూడి) is one of the eight major Indian classical dances. It ...

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Kuda Lumping

Kuda Lumping (Javanese: Jaran Kepang or Jathilan, Indonesian: Kuda Lumping or Kuda Kepang, English: ...

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Kuduro

Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance from Angola. It is characterized as uptempo, energet...

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(0)
Kujawiak

The Kujawiak is a Polish folk dance from the region of Kujawy in central Poland. It is one of the fi...

117
(0)
Kullawada

The Kullawada, kullahuada, cullaguada or kullawa is a dance practiced in Bolivia and Peru and there ...

134
(0)
Kumi Odori

Kumi odori (組踊, Okinawan: Kumi wudui) is a form of narrative traditional Ryūkyūan dance. Kumi odori ...

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(0)
Kumina

Kumina is an Afro-Jamaican religion. Kumina has practices that include secular ceremonies, dance and...

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Kummi

Kummi is a folk dance, popular in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in India, danced mostly by Tamil women in ci...

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Kurdish dance

Kurdish dances (Kurdish: Govend, Dîlan, Helperkê, Helperge, Şayî; دیلان, گۆڤەند, ھەڵپەڕگە, ھەڵپەڕکێ,...

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Kwassa kwassa

Kwassa kwassa (or kwasa kwasa) is a dance created by Jeanora, a mechanic in Kinshasa from the Democr...

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(0)
Lafina

Lafina (Greek: λαφίνα) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece. It is very similar to ...

152
(0)
Lahasua

Lahasua is a Nagpuri folk dance of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region of Jharkhand. Both men and women ...

89
(1)
Lakalaka

The lakalaka (walking briskly) is a Tongan group dance where the performers are largely standing sti...

335
(0)
Lambada

Lambada (pronunciation (help·info)) is a dance from State of Pará, Brazil. The dance became internat...

150
(2)
The Lambeth Walk

"The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl (with book and lyrics by Douglas F...

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(0)
Lambri Kamara

Lambri Kamara (Greek: Λαμπρή Καμάρα) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Megara, Attika, Greece.

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(0)
Lap dance

A lap dance (or contact dance) is a type of erotic dance performance offered in some strip clubs in ...

140
(0)
Lasya

The term Lāsya , in the context of Hindu mythology, describes the dance performed by Goddess Parvati...

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(5)
Latin dance

Latin dance is a general label, and a term in partner dance competition jargon. It refers to types o...

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(0)
Lavani

Lavani (Marathi: लावणी) is a genre of music popular in Maharashtra, India. Lavani is a combination o...

68
(0)
Ländler

The Ländler (German pronunciation: [ˈlɛntlɐ]) is a folk dance in 3 4 time which was popular in Austr...

149
(0)
Lebang Boomani dance

Lebang Boomani dance (also Lebang Bumani) is a harvest dance performed by the Tripuri people of Trip...

71
(0)
Legényes

A legényes (in Hungarian) or feciorească (in Romanian) is a men's solo dance done by Transylvanian p...

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(5)
Legong

Legong (Balinese: ᬮᬾᬕᭀᬂ) is a form of Balinese dance. It is a refined dance form characterized by in...

102
(0)
Lerikos

Lerikos (Greek: Λέρικος) is a traditional Greek circle dance. Participants hold hands at the shoulde...

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LeRoc

LeRoc is a form of Modern Jive, a dance style that evolved in the 1980s out of dances including Swin...

139
(0)
Les Lanciers

Les Lanciers or The Lancers is a square dance, a variant of the Quadrille, a set dance performed by ...

94
(0)
Letkajenkka

Letkajenkka, also known as Letkajenka in English and many other languages, is a Finnish dance.

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Leventikos

Leventikos (Greek: Λεβέντικος, Levéntikos); or Bufčansko (Macedonian: Буфчанско), also known as Litó...

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(3)
Lezginka

The Lezginka (Lezgian: Лезги кьуьл; Russian: Лезгинка; Tat: Ləzgihəngi; Azerbaijani: Ləzginka or Ləz...

155
(5)
Lezim

Lezim (लेझिम) or lazium is a folk dance form, from the state of Maharashtra in India.   Sometimes al...

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Likok Pulo

Likok Pulo is a traditional dance originating from Aceh, Indonesia. "Likok" means dance moves, while...

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(5)
Limbo (Dance)

Limbo is a popular game, based on traditions that originated on the island of Trinidad. The aim is t...

69
(0)
Linđo

Linđo (pronounced [lǐːndʑɔ]) is a popular dance of Dubrovnik and the Dubrovnik region of Croatia. It...

176
(1)
Lindy Hop

The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities in Harlem, New...

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(0)
Line dance

A line dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence...