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56 relations: An American Ballroom Companion, Ball (dance party), Ballo, Ballroom dance, Baroque, Basse danse, Boombal, Branle, Cakewalk, Carol (music), Cèilidh, Ceremonial dance, Chassé, Choreography, Circle dance, Competitive dance, Concert dance, Contra dance, Country dance, Country–western dance, Dance, Dance music, Erotic dance, Estampie, Folk dance, French Revolution, Gavotte, Glossary of ballet, House dance, José Alberto "El Canario", Latin dance, Lead and follow, Line dance, List of dance style categories, List of dances, Mannerism, Mazurka, Minuet, Napoleonic Wars, One-Step, Outline of dance, Participation dance, Partner dance, Pavane, Polka, Quadrille, Ragtime, Rock and roll, Saltarello, Scottish country dance, ..., Square dance, Street dance, Thoinot Arbeau, Turkey trot (dance), Two-step (dance move), Waltz. Expand index (6 more) »
An American Ballroom Companion
An American Ballroom Companion is an online collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress related to the period of cca.
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Ball (dance party)
A ball is a formal dance party.
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Ballo
The ballo was an Italian dance form during the fifteenth century, most noted for its frequent changes of tempo and meter.
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Ballroom dance
Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world.
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Baroque
The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.
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Basse danse
The basse danse, or "low dance", was a popular court dance in the 15th and early 16th centuries, especially at the Burgundian court.
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Boombal
Boombal (pl. Boombals) is a relatively recent phenomenon of folk dance parties in Belgium, originating in the French bal folk.
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Branle
A branle—also bransle, brangle, brawl, brawle, brall(e), braul(e), brando (Italy), bran (Spain), or brantle (Scotland)—is a type of French dance popular from the early 16th century to the present, danced by couples in either a line or a circle.
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Cakewalk
The cakewalk or cake walk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the late 19th century, generally at get-togethers on black slave plantations after emancipation in the Southern United States.
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Carol (music)
A carol is in Modern English a festive song, generally religious but not necessarily connected with church worship, and often with a dance-like or popular character.
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Cèilidh
A cèilidh or céilí is a traditional Scottish or Irish social gathering.
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Ceremonial dance
Ceremonial dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is ceremonial or ritualistic.
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Chassé
The chassé (French for 'to chase'; sometimes anglicized to chasse) is a dance step used in many dances in many variations.
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Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.
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Circle dance
Circle dance, or chain dance, is a style of dance done in a circle or semicircle to musical accompaniment, such as rhythm instruments and singing.
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Competitive dance
Competitive dance is a popular, widespread sport in which competitors perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles—such as acro, ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, modern, musical theatre, and tap—before a common group of judges.
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Concert dance
Concert dance (also known as performance dance or theatre dance in the United Kingdom) is dance performed for an audience.
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Contra dance
Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a folk dance made up of long lines of couples.
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Country dance
A country dance is any of a large number of social dances of the British Isles in which couples dance together in a figure or "set", each dancer dancing to his or her partner and each couple dancing to the other couples in the set.
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Country–western dance
Country/western dance, also called country and western dance, encompasses many dance forms or styles, which are typically danced to country-western music, and which are stylistically associated with American country and/or western traditions.
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Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.
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Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
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Erotic dance
An erotic dance is a dance that provides erotic entertainment and whose objective is the stimulation of erotic or sexual thoughts or actions in viewers.
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Estampie
The estampie (estampie, Occitan and estampida, istampitte) is a medieval dance and musical form which was a popular instrumental and vocal form in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Folk dance
A folk dance is developed by people that reflect the life of the people of a certain country or region.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
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Gavotte
The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated according to one source.
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Glossary of ballet
Because ballet became formalized in France, a significant part of ballet terminology is in the French language.
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House dance
House dance is a social dance and Street dance primarily danced to house music that has roots in the clubs of Chicago and of New York.
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José Alberto "El Canario"
José Alberto Justiniano born December 22, 1958 in Villa Consuelo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, better known by his stage name José Alberto "El Canario" is a Dominican salsa singer.
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Latin dance
Latin dance is a general label, and a term in partner dance competition jargon.
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Lead and follow
In some types of partner dance, lead and follow are designations for the two dancers comprising a dance couple.
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Line dance
A line dance is a choreographed dance with a repeated sequence of steps in which a group of people dance in one or more lines or rows, all facing either each other or in the same direction, and executing the steps at the same time.
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List of dance style categories
This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance.
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List of dances
This is the main list of dances.
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Mannerism
Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 and lasted until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it.
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Mazurka
The mazurka (in Polish mazurek, plural mazurki) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with "strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat".
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Minuet
A minuet (also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 4 time.
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.
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One-Step
The One-Step was a ballroom dance popular in social dancing at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Outline of dance
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to dance: Dance – human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
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Participation dance
Participation dance (also group-participation dance or audience participation dance) is a major class of dance that encourages dancing in a group.
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Partner dance
Partner dances are dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of two partners, as opposed to individuals dancing alone or individually in a non-coordinated manner, and as opposed to groups of people dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner.
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Pavane
The pavane, pavan, paven, pavin, pavian, pavine, or pavyn (It. pavana, padovana; Ger. Paduana) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance).
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Polka
The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas.
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Quadrille
The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.
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Ragtime
Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.
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Saltarello
The saltarello is a musical dance form originally from Italy.
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Scottish country dance
Scottish Country dance (SCD) is the distinctively Scottish form of country dance, itself a form of social dance involving groups of couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns.
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Square dance
A square dance is a dance for four couples (eight dancers in total) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square.
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Street dance
A street dance is a dance style that evolved outside dance studios in any available open space such as streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school yards, raves, and nightclubs.
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Thoinot Arbeau
Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1519 – July 23, 1595).
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Turkey trot (dance)
The turkey trot was a dance made popular in the early 1900s.
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Two-step (dance move)
The two-step is a step found in various dances, including many folk dances.
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Waltz
The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in time, performed primarily in closed position.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dance
