List of dance style categories

This is a list of the dance style categories. These categories are not mutually exclusive and are context dependent (i.e., a particular dance may belong to several categories).

For older and more region-orientated vernacular dance styles, see this list.

Traditional Jazz / African-American vernacular dance

• Black Bottom
• Boogie-woogie
• Cabbage patch
• Cakewalk
• Charleston
• Chicago stepping
• Detroit Ballroom
• Drunken Sailor
• Hand Dance / Bop
• Jitterbug
• Lindy hop
• Moonwalk
• Swing
• Tap dance
• Texas Swingout
• Texas Tommy

• Calypso Zumba
• Reggaeton dance
• Salsa
• Salsaton dance
• Soca dance
• Bernie dance

Dancehall dance

• Skanking

Experimental / Freestyle

• Boogie
• Jump Up

Hip-hop & Funk dance

• Breaking
• Poppin'
• Bounce
• Crip Walk (C-Walk)
  • Clown Walk
  • Crown Walk
• Detroit Jit
• Electric boogaloo
• Floating
• Jerkin'
• Jiggin'
• Jookin'
  • Memphis Jookin'
  • BBoying
• Krumping
• Litefeet
• Locking
  • Robot dance
• Popping
  • Liquiding
  • Waving
  • Tutting
  • Warping
• Snap dance
• Street Jazz
• Strobing
• Turfing

House dance

• Footwork
• Hustle
• Jacking
• Lofting
• Vogue
• Waacking
• Tecktonik
• Grinding

Punk dance

• Hardcore
• Pogo

Rave dance

• Candy Walk
• Hardcore
  • Hakken
  • Jumpstyle
• Kandi Stomping
• Rebolation
• Melbourne Shuffle
  • Hardstyle
• X-Outing

Historical dance

• Historical dance

see also Concert dance

Folk dance

• Perafic dance

Latin dance

• Latin dance
  • American Rhythm
    • Mambo
    • Rumba
    • Bolero
    • East Coast Swing
  • International Latin
    • Rumba
    • Samba (ballroom dance)
    • Jive
    • Reggaeton
    • Salsa
      • Rueda
    • Danza
    • Samba (Brazilian dance)
    • Samba de Gafieira
    • Bachata
    • Cumbia
    • Merengue
    • Capoeira
      • Maculelê
    • Argentine tango
• Quebradita
• Duranguense
• Cumbia Texana
• Corridos
• Tejano
• Cha Cha

Swing dance

• Modern Jive
• Leroc
• Lindy Hop
• Blues dance
• Balboa
• Deneme
• Jitterbug
• Jitting (evolved from Jitterbug)
• Jive (dance)
• East Coast Swing
• West Coast Swing
• Collegiate Shag
• Carolina Shag
• Hand Jive
• Charleston
• Western dance

Liturgical dance

• Liturgical dance

Participative dance improvisation

• Contact improvisation
• Ecstatic dance aka Freestyle Dance aka Barefoot Improvisational Dance

Miscellaneous

• Disco dance

See also: Disco music

• Novelty and fad dances
• Flying Men dance
• Pom dance
• Line dance
• Bollywood dance

Concert dance / performance dance

• Acro dance
• Ballet
• Contemporary dance
• Greek Classical
• Concert dance
• Flamenco
• Modern dance
• Performance dance
• Tap dance

Historical dance

• Historical dance
  • Medieval dance
  • Renaissance dance
  • Masque
  • English country dance
  • Baroque dance
  • Regency dance
  • Vintage dance

Belly dance

• Belly dance
  • Category:Syllabus-free dance

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