Charleston Dance
The Charleston is a dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called "The Charleston" by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in th...

Lyrical Dance
The Lyrical dance style has its primary basis in ballet, combining the many technical elements of classical ballet with the freedom, fluidity, expressiveness and airier aspects of jazz, contemporary and modern dance. It is typically considered a sub-categ...

Tap Dance
Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one�s tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm (Jazz) tap and Br...

Regency Dance
Regency dance is the term for historical dances of the period ranging roughly from 1790 to 1825. Some feel that the popular use of the term "Regency dance" is not technically correct, as the actual English Regency (the future George IV ruling on behalf of...

Maypole Dance
Maypole dancing is a form of folk dance from western Europe, especially England, Basque Country, Finland, Sweden, Galicia, Portugal and Germany,According to the polemic anti-Catholic pamphlet, The Two Babylons, the origin of the maypole dance began in anc...

Lindy Hop Dance
The Lindy Hop is an American dance that evolved in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s and 1930s and originally evolved with the jazz music of that time. Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but is mainl...

Irish C�il� Dances
Irish social, or c�il� ( /ˈkeɪli/) dances vary widely throughout Ireland and the rest of the world. A c�il� dance may be performed with as few as two people and as many as sixteen. C�il� dances may also be danced with an unlimited number of coup...

Irish Dance
Irish dancing or Irish dance is a group of traditional dance forms originating in Ireland which can broadly be divided into social dance and performance dances. Irish social dances can be divided further into c�il� and set dancing. Irish set dances are qu...

Hokey Cokey Dance
"Hokey pokey" redirects here. For other uses, see Hokey pokey (disambiguation). The hokey cokey (United Kingdom) or hokey pokey (United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand), also known as okey cokey, or cokey cokey, is a participation danc...

Forr� Dance
Forr� (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɔˈʁɔ]) encompasses a number of Northeastern Brazilian dances as well as a number of different musical genres which accompany these dances. Although the music has gained widespread popularity in all of...