# EveryGhunghroo

> Every dance in the world, step by step. A free guide to 1377 dances and dance forms from 165 countries, filed by country and city, by form (classical, folk, social, ballroom, street, ritual, court, dance-drama, concert, martial, mask, historical), by formation, by occasion and by faith tradition, with a live dance calendar, ways of dancing and a glossary. Published by ClearTrust.

Each dance page gives: name and native name, countries, cities and regions, what it is, where it comes from, how it is danced (in outline, not a lesson), its music and instruments, costume, when and where it is danced, styles, what it means, rhythm, a short FAQ, further reading and source links. Dance pages are derived from Wikipedia and Wikidata with AI assistance and may contain mistakes; cite the page URL.

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- [All dances](https://everyghunghroo.com/dances)
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- [Mourning and remembrance](https://everyghunghroo.com/occasions/mourning)
- [Healing and trance](https://everyghunghroo.com/occasions/healing)
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- [Competition](https://everyghunghroo.com/occasions/competition)
- [Hindu dance traditions](https://everyghunghroo.com/sacred/hindu)
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- [Sikh dance traditions](https://everyghunghroo.com/sacred/sikh)
- [Shinto dance traditions](https://everyghunghroo.com/sacred/shinto)
- [Indigenous and ancestral dance traditions](https://everyghunghroo.com/sacred/indigenous)
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## Ways of dancing
- [The milonga](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/milonga): A social evening of Argentine tango, danced in sets of songs, with its own codes for asking, accepting and sharing the floor.
- [The ceilidh and the céilí](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/ceilidh): A Scottish or Irish evening of group dances to live music, where a caller talks the whole room through each one.
- [The salsa and bachata social](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/salsa-social): An open night of partner dancing to salsa, bachata and related music, where you change partners with almost every song.
- [The rueda de casino](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/rueda-de-casino): Cuban salsa danced by many couples in a wheel, with one dancer calling moves that everyone performs at the same moment.
- [Bal folk](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/bal-folk): A relaxed European dance night to live folk music, mixing couple dances with circles and chains anyone can join.
- [The fest-noz](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/fest-noz): A Breton night festival where hundreds of people link little fingers and dance in long chains to singers and pipers.
- [The tea dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/tea-dance): An afternoon of ballroom dancing with tea and cakes, once high fashion and still a weekly fixture for many older dancers.
- [The contra dance and the barn dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/contra-dance): A New England evening of dances in long facing lines, taught on the spot by a caller and played by a live fiddle band.
- [The square dance and its caller](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/square-dance-caller): Four couples dance in a square while a caller speaks or sings the moves, sometimes making up the order as they go.
- [The juke joint and the dance hall](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/juke-joint): The rough back-road bars and big city ballrooms where Black Americans made the blues, swing and many of the dances that went with them.
- [The club night and the rave](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/rave-and-club): Dancing for hours to a DJ's unbroken mix of electronic music, in a dark room or a field, mostly alone and all together.
- [The sabar and the tànnibéer](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/sabar-tanneber): A Senegalese street party where a line of drummers plays and women step into the circle one by one for short, explosive solos.
- [The first dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/first-dance): The moment at a wedding party when the newly married couple dance alone and so open the floor for everyone else.
- [The sangeet](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/sangeet): The song and dance evening before a North Indian wedding, when both families perform for each other and then dance together.
- [The dabke line at a wedding](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/dabke-line): A line of guests, hands or shoulders linked, stamping in step behind a leader at weddings across the Levant.
- [The hora at a celebration](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/hora-at-celebrations): A fast ring dance for the whole room at Jewish weddings, and an older, slower village circle in Romania and Moldova.
- [Garba night at Navratri](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/garba-night): Nine nights of circle dancing in honour of the goddess, held each autumn in Gujarat and wherever Gujaratis live.
- [The powwow](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/powwow): A gathering of Native American and First Nations people to dance, sing, honour one another and compete, often open to the public.
- [The samba school and its carnival parade](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/samba-school-parade): A neighbourhood association in Brazil that spends all year preparing one huge sung and danced parade, judged at carnival.
- [Bon odori](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/bon-odori): The summer dances of Japan's Obon season, when neighbours circle a wooden tower to welcome the spirits of their ancestors.
- [The lion dance troupe at New Year](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/lion-dance-troupe): Teams of two under a lion costume, driven by drum and cymbals, who visit homes and shops at Lunar New Year to bring good fortune.
- [The Margazhi season in Chennai](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/margazhi-season): A month of back-to-back classical music and dance recitals in Chennai each December and January, run by the city's arts societies.
- [The sema ceremony of the Mevlevi](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/mevlevi-sema): A Sufi ceremony of prayer, music and turning, practised by the followers of the poet Rumi as a way of remembering God.
- [Temple dance and the devadasi history](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/temple-dance-and-devadasi-history): The story of the women who danced in South and East Indian temples, how their world was dismantled, and what the stage inherited.
- [The haka as challenge and welcome](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/haka-challenge-and-welcome): The Māori posture dance with chanted words, performed by a group to welcome, to challenge, to mourn and to celebrate.
- [Masked dance festivals: cham and the tshechu](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/cham-and-tshechu): Sacred dances by masked monks and laymen in the courtyards of Himalayan Buddhist monasteries, watched as a blessing.
- [The corroboree](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/corroboree): An English word for the ceremonies of song, dance and body painting through which Aboriginal Australians keep law, story and country.
- [The ngoma gathering](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/ngoma): Across much of eastern, central and southern Africa, one word means the drum, the dance and the event that brings people together.
- [The capoeira roda](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/capoeira-roda): The ring of players and musicians inside which two people at a time play capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian art of fight, dance and game.
- [The cypher and the breaking battle](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/cypher-and-breaking-battle): The circle where hip-hop dancers take turns in the middle, and the judged contest in which breakers answer each other round for round.
- [The vogue ball](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/vogue-ball): A competition of dance, walking and style created by Black and Latino LGBTQ people in New York, contested by chosen families called houses.
- [The ballroom competition](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/dancesport-competition): Couples in numbered pairs dance set ballroom and Latin dances at the same time while judges around the floor rank them.
- [The Irish feis](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/irish-feis): A competition day for Irish step dancers, who perform solo reels, jigs and hornpipes for a judge and climb through graded levels.
- [Highland dancing at the games](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/highland-games-dancing): Solo Scottish dances performed to a lone piper on a small outdoor platform, judged at Highland games in Scotland and abroad.
- [The dance marathon](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/dance-marathon): An endurance contest of 1920s and 1930s America in which couples danced, or at least stayed upright, for days and weeks to win a prize.
- [The gurukul and the guru-shishya system](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/guru-shishya-system): The Indian way of handing on dance from one teacher to one student over many years, by living, watching and repeating.
- [The arangetram](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/arangetram): A Bharatanatyam student's first full solo recital, given after years of training to show that she or he is ready for the stage.
- [The kathak gharanas](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/kathak-gharanas): The schools of style in kathak, each named after the North Indian city or court where one line of teachers shaped it.
- [The ballet class: barre and centre](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/ballet-class): The daily lesson every ballet dancer takes, from student to star, in an order of exercises that hardly changes anywhere in the world.
- [The hula hālau](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/hula-halau): A Hawaiian school of hula, in which a master teacher passes on dances, chants, language and protocol to a close group of students.
- [The ballet company and its ranks](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/ballet-company-hierarchy): How a ballet company is ordered, from the newest member of the ensemble up to the few principals who dance the leading roles.
- [The all-night Kathakali performance](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/kathakali-all-night): A dance-drama of Kerala played from nightfall until dawn in a temple yard, by actors in towering costume and painted faces.
- [Flamenco: the tablao and the juerga](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/flamenco-tablao-and-juerga): The two homes of flamenco: the small paid venue with a wooden stage, and the private gathering where it happens among friends.
- [The folkloric ensemble and the state folk ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/state-folk-ensemble): Professional companies that turn the village dances of a country into polished stage shows and tour them as a national calling card.
- [Dance notation](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/dance-notation): Systems of symbols for writing movement down on paper, so that a dance can be kept, studied and staged again without its maker.
- [The Natya Shastra and rasa theory](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/natya-shastra-and-rasa): An ancient Sanskrit manual of theatre, dance and music, and its central idea: that a performance exists to produce a shared, savoured emotion.
- [Call and response between dancer and drummer](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/dancer-and-drummer): In many traditions the dance is a live conversation: the drummer plays the dancer's moves, and the dancer answers the drum.
- [UNESCO heritage listing for dances](https://everyghunghroo.com/ways/unesco-heritage-listing): The international lists on which countries register living traditions, including many dances, to recognise and help safeguard them.

## Dance days
- [Lohri](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/lohri): Punjab lights a bonfire for midwinter, and men dance bhangra and women giddha around it.
- [Pongal](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/pongal): The Tamil harvest festival, with kummi and kolattam danced by women and village folk dances in the street.
- [Sinulog and Ati-Atihan](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/santo-nino-festivals): Filipinos dance through the streets of Cebu and Kalibo in honour of the Santo Niño, the Holy Child.
- [Timkat](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/timkat): Ethiopian Orthodox Christians keep the baptism of Christ with priestly dance and the shoulder dance eskista.
- [Thaipusam](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/thaipusam): Tamil devotees of Murugan carry the kavadi on their shoulders and dance it to the temple.
- [Burns Night](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/burns-night): Scots mark the birthday of the poet Robert Burns with a supper, and often a ceilidh after it.
- [Fiesta de la Candelaria, Puno](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/virgen-de-la-candelaria-puno): Tens of thousands of dancers fill Puno, on Lake Titicaca, in honour of the Virgin of Candelaria.
- [Waitangi Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/waitangi-day): New Zealand marks the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, with haka and kapa haka on the treaty grounds.
- [Te Matatini](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/te-matatini): The national kapa haka festival, where the best Māori performing groups compete every two years.
- [Chinese New Year](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/chinese-new-year): Lion and dragon dances go from door to door to drums and firecrackers, to bring luck for the year.
- [Lantern Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/lantern-festival): The first full moon of the Chinese year, with yangge troupes, dragons and lions under the lanterns.
- [Losar](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/losar): Tibetan New Year: monks dance the masked cham to clear away the old year, and families dance in circles.
- [Khajuraho Dance Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/khajuraho-dance-festival): A week of India's classical dances, performed in the open air before the temples of Khajuraho.
- [Vienna Opera Ball](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/vienna-opera-ball): The height of the Vienna ball season: debutantes open with a polonaise, then everyone waltzes.
- [Carnival in Brazil](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/carnival-brazil): Samba schools parade in Rio, frevo dancers leap in Recife, and Salvador dances behind sound trucks.
- [Trinidad and Tobago Carnival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/trinidad-carnival): Two days of masquerade bands dancing through Port of Spain to soca and steelpan.
- [Carnival of Barranquilla](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/barranquilla-carnival): Colombia's Caribbean coast dances cumbia, mapalé and dozens of other folk dances for four days.
- [Carnival of Oruro](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/oruro-carnival): Dancers in devil masks process for hours through a Bolivian mining town, for the Virgin of the Mineshaft.
- [Mardi Gras in New Orleans](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/mardi-gras-new-orleans): New Orleans dances in the street behind brass bands, and in ballrooms at the carnival balls.
- [Maslenitsa](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/maslenitsa): The week before Orthodox Lent, with ring dances in the snow and a straw figure of winter burned.
- [Maha Shivaratri and Natyanjali](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/maha-shivaratri): On the great night of Shiva, dancers offer their art to Nataraja, lord of the dance, at Chidambaram.
- [Chapchar Kut](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/chapchar-kut): The spring festival of Mizoram, known for cheraw, danced between clapping bamboo poles.
- [Holi](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/holi): The festival of colour, danced with Krishna's raslila in Braj and the gair of Rajasthan.
- [St Patrick's Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/st-patricks-day): The feast of the patron saint of Ireland, with step dancers in the parades and ceilis at night.
- [Nowruz](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/nowruz): The new year at the spring equinox, danced in great lines by Kurds and with the attan by Afghans.
- [Paro Tsechu](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/paro-tsechu): Five days of sacred masked dances by monks and laymen at the fortress of Paro in Bhutan.
- [Eid al-Fitr](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/eid-al-fitr): The feast that ends Ramadan, marked in Arabia with the sword dance ardah and in the Levant with dabke.
- [Merrie Monarch Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/merrie-monarch-festival): The foremost hula competition, held in Hilo, Hawaii, in the week that begins on Easter Sunday.
- [Greek Easter](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/greek-easter): After the midnight service and the roast lamb, Greek villages dance in open circles all afternoon.
- [Feria de Abril](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/feria-de-abril): The spring fair of Seville, a week of sevillanas danced day and night in rows of striped tents.
- [Chaitra Parva](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/chaitra-parva): The spring festival of Seraikela, Mayurbhanj and Purulia, where Chhau is danced through the night.
- [Songkran](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/songkran): The Thai new year of water, with the slow circle dance ramwong danced at temple fairs.
- [Thingyan](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/thingyan): The water festival of Myanmar, with troupes dancing in unison on roadside stages.
- [Vaisakhi](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/vaisakhi): The wheat harvest of Punjab and the birth of the Khalsa, kept with processions, fairs and bhangra.
- [Rongali Bihu](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/rongali-bihu): The Assamese new year, when young people dance Bihu to the drum, the buffalo horn and the bamboo clapper.
- [International Dance Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/international-dance-day): A day for every kind of dance, kept by dancers and schools around the world since 1982.
- [May Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/may-day): Morris sides dance at sunrise and children plait ribbons round the maypole to welcome summer.
- [Hıdırellez and Ederlezi](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/hidirellez): The spring day of Turkey and the Balkans, kept by Roma communities with fires, music and dance.
- [Cinco de Mayo](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/cinco-de-mayo): The anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, kept by Mexican Americans with folk dance in the street.
- [Lag BaOmer](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/lag-baomer): A day of bonfires in the Jewish spring, when crowds dance in circles at Meron and around the fires.
- [National Tap Dance Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/national-tap-dance-day): The birthday of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, kept by tap dancers in the United States and beyond.
- [World Lindy Hop Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/world-lindy-hop-day): Swing dancers everywhere mark the birthday of Frankie Manning, the great dancer of the Savoy Ballroom.
- [Rusalii and the Căluș](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/rusalii-calus): At Orthodox Pentecost, sworn bands of men in southern Romania dance the leaping căluș from yard to yard.
- [Corpus Christi](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/corpus-christi): Devils dance before the church in Venezuela, and fire-breathing figures dance in the square of Berga.
- [Kaamatan and Gawai Dayak](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/kaamatan-and-gawai): The rice harvest festivals of Borneo, with the sumazau of Sabah and the ngajat of Sarawak.
- [Samoa Independence Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/samoa-independence-day): Samoa keeps its independence with a march past and the dances of its villages and schools.
- [Dano](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/dano): The Korean fifth day of the fifth month, kept with mask dance dramas and farmers’ drumming.
- [Festa Junina](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/festa-junina): The June feasts of Brazil, with country-style quadrilha danced round a bonfire, and forró all night.
- [Bali Arts Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/bali-arts-festival): A month of Balinese dance and music in Denpasar, with villages from the whole island taking part.
- [National Indigenous Peoples Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/national-indigenous-peoples-day): Canada honours First Nations, Inuit and Métis on the summer solstice, with powwows and jigging.
- [Midsummer in Sweden](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/midsummer-sweden): Swedes raise a leafy pole on Midsummer Eve and dance round it, hopping like small frogs.
- [Inti Raymi](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/inti-raymi): The Andean festival of the sun at the June solstice, danced in Cusco and in the squares of Ecuador.
- [Galungan](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/galungan): Balinese Hindus welcome their ancestors home, and the Barong dances from door to door.
- [Heiva i Tahiti](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/heiva-i-tahiti): The great dance and song contest of French Polynesia, held in Papeete through early July.
- [NAIDOC Week](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/naidoc-week): A week to honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with dance at gatherings across Australia.
- [Bastille Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/bastille-day): On the eve of France's national day, fire stations open their yards for all-night public dances.
- [Guelaguetza](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/guelaguetza): The regions of Oaxaca bring their dances to the hill above the city on two Mondays in July.
- [Ólavsøka](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/olavsoka): The national holiday of the Faroe Islands, which ends with a chain dance sung through the night.
- [Emancipation and Independence, Jamaica](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/jamaica-emancipation-independence): Jamaica marks freedom on 1 August and independence on 6 August, with its traditional dances on show.
- [Crop Over](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/crop-over): Barbados ends the sugar harvest with Grand Kadooment, a day of costumed bands dancing to the sea.
- [Teej](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/hariyali-teej): Women welcome the monsoon with swings, songs and dance: ghoomar in Rajasthan and giddha in Punjab.
- [Awa Odori](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/awa-odori): The city of Tokushima dances through its streets for four nights, in the largest dance festival of Japan.
- [Obon](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/obon): Japan welcomes the spirits of its ancestors, and whole towns dance bon odori round a wooden tower.
- [Dormition of the Mother of God](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/dormition-greece): On 15 August every Greek village holds its panigiri, a feast with music and dancing until dawn.
- [Janmashtami](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/janmashtami): The birth of Krishna at midnight, kept with raslila dance-dramas and ras in a circle.
- [Cowal Highland Gathering](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/cowal-highland-gathering): Highland dancers from many countries compete at Dunoon in Scotland for the world championship.
- [Kulamba](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/kulamba): The Chewa of Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique gather before their king, and the masked Nyau dance.
- [Notting Hill Carnival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/notting-hill-carnival): London's Caribbean carnival, two days of masquerade bands, steel bands and sound systems.
- [Onam](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/onam): Kerala welcomes King Mahabali home: women dance in a ring round a lamp, and men prowl as painted tigers.
- [Ganesh Chaturthi](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/ganesh-chaturthi): Ganesha is brought home with drums and taken to the water with lezim, danced all along the road.
- [Umhlanga Reed Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/umhlanga): Tens of thousands of young women of Eswatini bring reeds to the Queen Mother and dance before her.
- [Abbots Bromley Horn Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/abbots-bromley-horn-dance): Six men carrying ancient reindeer antlers dance round a Staffordshire parish from dawn to dusk.
- [Mexican Independence Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/mexican-independence-day): After the cry of independence on the night of 15 September, Mexico dances its regional dances.
- [Fiestas Patrias, Chile](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/fiestas-patrias-chile): Chile keeps its national days in open-air fairs, where couples dance the cueca with a handkerchief.
- [Oktoberfest](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/oktoberfest): At the Munich festival, costume clubs parade and men slap thigh and shoe in the Schuhplattler.
- [Gerewol](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/gerewol): At the end of the rains, young Wodaabe men paint their faces and dance in a line to be chosen.
- [La Mercè](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/la-merce): Barcelona honours its patron with sardanas in the square, dancing giants and stick dancers.
- [Heritage Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/heritage-day-south-africa): South Africans wear traditional dress and show the dances of their many peoples.
- [Chuseok](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/chuseok): At the Korean harvest moon, women join hands and circle under it, singing ganggangsullae.
- [Mid-Autumn Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/mid-autumn-festival): A dragon of burning incense dances through Hong Kong, and lions dance for children in Vietnam.
- [Simchat Torah](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/simchat-torah): Jews finish the yearly reading of the Torah and dance with the scrolls seven times round the synagogue.
- [Bathukamma](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/bathukamma): The women of Telangana build towers of flowers and circle them each evening, singing and clapping.
- [Navratri](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/navratri): Nine nights for the goddess, danced in Gujarat with garba in rings and dandiya with sticks.
- [Mysore Dasara](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/mysore-dasara): The state festival of Karnataka, whose great procession brings out drum dancers from across the state.
- [Durga Puja](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/durga-puja): Bengal welcomes the goddess Durga, and worshippers dance before her with bowls of burning incense.
- [Dussehra](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/dussehra): The victory of Rama over Ravana, acted in Ramlila, and a week of nati dancing at Kullu.
- [Day of the Dead](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/day-of-the-dead): Mexico welcomes its dead with altars and marigolds, and in Michoacán the little old men dance.
- [Diwali and Tihar](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/diwali-and-tihar): On the nights of lamps, Nepali groups sing and dance from house to house, and herders dance in Chhattisgarh.
- [Día de la Tradición](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/dia-de-la-tradicion): Argentina honours the gaucho on the birthday of José Hernández, with folk dance and horsemanship.
- [International Flamenco Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/international-flamenco-day): The day in 2010 when UNESCO listed flamenco, kept with song, guitar and dance across Andalusia.
- [Sangai Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/sangai-festival): Manipur shows its dances and martial arts for ten days, named for its rare brow-antlered deer.
- [Raas Purnima](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/raas-purnima): On the full moon of Kartik, Manipur and Assam dance Krishna's circle dance with the gopis.
- [Hornbill Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/hornbill-festival): The Naga tribes gather near Kohima for ten days, each with its own songs, dances and dress.
- [Konark Dance Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/konark-dance-festival): Five evenings of classical dance in an open theatre, with the Sun Temple of Konark behind the stage.
- [National Samba Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/national-samba-day): Brazil honours samba on 2 December, with circles of players and dancers in Rio and Salvador.
- [Şeb-i Arus](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/seb-i-arus): In Konya, the Mevlevi turn in the sema to mark the night the poet Rumi died, his wedding night with God.
- [World Tango Day](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/world-tango-day): Tango dancers mark the shared birthday of the singer Carlos Gardel and the bandleader Julio de Caro.
- [Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/our-lady-of-guadalupe): Pilgrims dance before the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City as an offering to the Virgin.
- [Chennai Margazhi Season](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/margazhi-season): For a month from mid December, the halls of Chennai are full of Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam.
- [Feria de Cali](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/feria-de-cali): The Colombian city of Cali opens its fair on Christmas Day with a parade of a thousand salsa dancers.
- [Junkanoo](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/junkanoo): Before dawn on Boxing Day, and again at New Year, costumed groups rush down the streets of Nassau.
- [Hogmanay](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/hogmanay): Scotland sees the old year out with a ceilidh, reels until midnight, and hands joined for Auld Lang Syne.
- [New Year's Eve](https://everyghunghroo.com/days/new-years-eve): At midnight Austrians waltz into the new year to The Blue Danube, in ballrooms, squares and kitchens.

## Glossary
- **Plié**: A bend of the knees with the back held straight, the first movement taught in ballet. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/plie)
- **Relevé**: A rise onto the balls of the feet or the tips of the toes. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/releve)
- **Arabesque**: A ballet pose on one leg with the other leg stretched straight out behind. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/arabesque)
- **Pirouette**: A full turn of the body on one leg, done on the ball of the foot or on pointe. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/pirouette)
- **Turnout**: The outward rotation of the legs from the hips that is the basis of ballet technique. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/turnout)
- **En pointe**: Dancing on the very tips of the toes, supported by specially stiffened shoes. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/en-pointe)
- **Port de bras**: The way a ballet dancer carries and moves the arms through set positions. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/port-de-bras)
- **Spotting**: Fixing the eyes on one point and whipping the head round during turns to prevent dizziness. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/spotting)
- **Isolation**: Moving one part of the body, such as the head, ribs or hips, while the rest stays still. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/isolation)
- **Contraction and release**: A pulling in and letting go of the torso, the core idea of Martha Graham's modern dance technique. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/contraction-and-release)
- **Shuffle**: A basic tap step: the ball of the foot brushes forward and back, making two quick sounds. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/shuffle)
- **Time step**: A set rhythmic pattern in tap dance, traditionally used to show the band the tempo. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/time-step)
- **Footwork**: The patterns the feet make on the floor: their placing, rhythm, weight and sound. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/footwork)
- **Floorwork**: Movement done lying, sitting, kneeling or rolling on the floor. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/floorwork)
- **Freeze**: A sudden held pose in breaking, often balanced on the hands, head or shoulder. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/freeze)
- **Toprock and downrock**: The two basic layers of breaking: steps done standing up, and steps done close to the floor. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/toprock-and-downrock)
- **Power move**: A spinning, acrobatic breaking move driven by momentum, such as the windmill or headspin. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/power-move)
- **Popping**: A street dance style built on quickly tensing and relaxing muscles to make a jerk, or hit, in the body. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/popping)
- **Locking**: A funk street dance of fast arm and hand movements that stop suddenly in held positions. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/locking)
- **Waacking**: A style of fast, whipping arm movements around the head, born in 1970s Los Angeles gay clubs. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/waacking)
- **Lead and follow**: The system in partner dancing where one dancer suggests each movement and the other responds. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/lead-and-follow)
- **Frame**: The steady shape that partners make with their arms and upper bodies so they can move as one. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/frame)
- **Closed and open hold**: The two basic ways partners connect: facing and embracing, or apart and joined only by the hands. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/closed-and-open-hold)
- **Promenade**: A figure in which partners travel side by side in the same direction. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/promenade)
- **Chassé**: A sliding step in which one foot seems to chase the other: step, close, step. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/chasse)
- **Syncopation**: Placing accents where the listener does not expect them, between or against the main beats. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/syncopation)
- **Improvisation**: Making up the dance in the moment instead of performing set steps. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/improvisation)
- **Choreography**: The art of composing dances, and the fixed sequence of steps that results. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/choreography)
- **Unison and canon**: Two ways for a group to share a movement: all at the same time, or one after another. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/unison-and-canon)
- **Partnering**: The skills two dancers use to support, balance, turn and lift each other. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/partnering)
- **Lift**: A movement in which one dancer is raised off the floor by another or by several others. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/lift)
- **Grand jeté**: A big leap from one foot to the other with the legs stretched wide apart in the air. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/grand-jete)
- **Pas de deux**: A dance for two. In classical ballet, a set-piece duet for the leading couple. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/pas-de-deux)
- **Variation**: A solo dance in a ballet, usually short and designed to show a dancer's skill. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/variation)
- **Divertissement**: A set of short dances inside a ballet that entertains without moving the story forward. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/divertissement)
- **Ghungroo**: Strings of small metal bells tied round a dancer's ankles, heard in almost every Indian classical dance. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/ghungroo)
- **Mudra**: A codified hand gesture in Indian dance that can stand for an object, action, idea or feeling. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/mudra)
- **Abhinaya**: The art of expression in Indian dance: carrying meaning and feeling to the audience. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/abhinaya)
- **Nritta**: Pure dance: abstract movement and rhythm with no story or meaning to convey. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/nritta)
- **Nritya**: Expressive dance: movement joined to meaning, where the dancer interprets a poem or song. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/nritya)
- **Natya**: Drama: dance used together with speech, song and character to tell a story on stage. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/natya)
- **Rasa**: The feeling or flavour that a performance awakens in the audience. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/rasa)
- **Bhava**: The emotion or state of mind that the dancer portrays. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/bhava)
- **Navarasa**: The nine basic emotional flavours of Indian performing arts. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/navarasa)
- **Tala**: The rhythmic cycle of Indian music and dance: a fixed number of beats that repeats. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tala)
- **Laya**: The tempo of Indian music and dance, and a dancer's inner sense of steady time. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/laya)
- **Bol**: Spoken syllables that stand for drum strokes and dance steps, such as ta, dha, tin, thei. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/bol)
- **Tatkar**: The basic footwork of Kathak: flat-footed stamps that sound the rhythm through the ankle bells. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tatkar)
- **Chakkar**: The fast spins of Kathak, turned on the heel or flat foot, often in long unbroken series. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/chakkar)
- **Tihai**: A rhythmic phrase repeated three times so that its last stroke lands on the first beat of the cycle. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tihai)
- **Tukra**: A short, fixed rhythmic composition in Kathak, usually ending in a tihai. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tukra)
- **Adavu**: The basic step units of Bharatanatyam, each joining a foot pattern, a hand gesture and a body line. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/adavu)
- **Aramandi**: The basic half-sitting stance of Bharatanatyam, with knees bent outward and heels together. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/aramandi)
- **Alarippu**: The short opening piece of a Bharatanatyam recital, a pure dance offered as an invocation. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/alarippu)
- **Jatiswaram**: The second item in a Bharatanatyam recital: pure dance set to a melody of sung note names. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/jatiswaram)
- **Varnam**: The long central piece of a Bharatanatyam recital, alternating pure dance with expressive storytelling. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/varnam)
- **Tillana**: A fast, joyful pure dance piece that usually closes a Bharatanatyam recital. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tillana)
- **Padam**: A slow, expressive piece in Bharatanatyam where the dancer interprets a love poem through acting. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/padam)
- **Arangetram**: A Bharatanatyam student's first full solo public performance, marking the end of basic training. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/arangetram)
- **Margam**: The traditional order of items in a Bharatanatyam solo recital, from alarippu to tillana. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/margam)
- **Gharana**: A school or lineage of north Indian music or dance with its own style, handed down through teachers. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/gharana)
- **Guru-shishya parampara**: The teacher-to-student tradition through which Indian classical arts are passed on. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/guru-shishya-parampara)
- **Nattuvangam**: The art of conducting a Bharatanatyam recital with small hand cymbals and spoken rhythm. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/nattuvangam)
- **Tribhangi**: The three-bend stance of Odissi, with the body curving at the neck, waist and knee. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tribhangi)
- **Chauka**: The square stance of Odissi: feet apart, knees bent outward, weight equal on both legs. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/chauka)
- **Lasya and tandava**: The two contrasting qualities of Indian dance: soft and graceful, and strong and forceful. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/lasya-and-tandava)
- **Natya Shastra**: The ancient Sanskrit treatise on drama, dance and music that underlies India's classical arts. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/natya-shastra)
- **Sattra**: A Vaishnavite monastery of Assam, the home of the Sattriya dance tradition. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/sattra)
- **Kalasam**: A passage of pure dance in Kathakali that punctuates the end of a sung verse or section. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/kalasam)
- **Mohiniyattam sway**: The gentle side-to-side and circular swaying of the torso that marks Kerala's Mohiniyattam. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/mohiniyattam-sway)
- **Dandiya**: A pair of short decorated sticks, and the Gujarati dance in which partners strike them in rhythm. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/dandiya)
- **Dhol**: A large two-headed barrel drum hung from the shoulder and beaten with sticks, the sound of bhangra. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/dhol)
- **Tabla**: A pair of small hand drums, the main rhythm instrument of north Indian music and of Kathak. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tabla)
- **Mridangam**: The two-headed barrel drum of south Indian classical music, the main drum of Bharatanatyam. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/mridangam)
- **Pakhawaj**: A north Indian two-headed barrel drum with a deep, grave sound, older than the tabla. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/pakhawaj)
- **Beat**: The steady pulse of the music, the thing you tap your foot to. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/beat)
- **Metre**: The way beats are grouped into repeating sets of two, three, four or more. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/metre)
- **Bar**: One complete group of beats in the music, such as the one-two-three of a waltz. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/bar)
- **Downbeat and upbeat**: The downbeat is the first, strongest beat of a bar. The upbeat is the lighter beat that leads into it. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/downbeat-and-upbeat)
- **Polyrhythm**: Two or more different rhythms played at the same time, such as three beats against two. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/polyrhythm)
- **Clave**: A five-stroke rhythm pattern that organises Cuban music, and the pair of wooden sticks that play it. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/clave)
- **Compás**: The rhythmic cycle of flamenco, and a performer's sense of staying inside it. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/compas)
- **Palmas**: The rhythmic hand-clapping that accompanies flamenco song and dance. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/palmas)
- **Zapateado**: Percussive footwork with the heels, toes and soles of the shoes, in flamenco and across Latin America. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/zapateado)
- **Call and response**: A pattern in which a leader sings, plays or dances a phrase and the group answers. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/call-and-response)
- **Ostinato**: A short musical pattern repeated over and over, often the foundation of dance music. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/ostinato)
- **Tempo**: The speed of the music, usually measured in beats per minute. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tempo)
- **3/4 time**: Music with three beats in each bar, counted one-two-three, as in a waltz. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/triple-time)
- **6/8 time**: Music with six quick pulses in a bar, felt as two beats that each divide into three. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/six-eight-time)
- **Aksak**: A rhythm built of unequal long and short beats, typical of dance music in the Balkans and Turkey. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/aksak)
- **Circle dance**: A dance in which people form a ring, usually holding hands, and move round together. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/circle-dance)
- **Line dance**: A dance done by people standing in rows, all facing the same way and doing the same steps without partners. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/line-dance)
- **Chain dance**: A dance in which a line of people, linked by hands or arms, follows a leader in a winding path. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/chain-dance)
- **Longways set**: A formation of two facing lines of dancers, partners opposite each other. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/longways-set)
- **Square set**: Four couples standing on the four sides of a square, all facing the centre. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/square-set)
- **Contra dance**: A social dance from New England in which long lines of couples dance figures called out by a caller. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/contra-dance)
- **Couple dance**: Any dance done by two people together as a unit. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/couple-dance)
- **Round dance**: A term with two meanings: a dance done in a ring, or a couple dance that travels round the room. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/round-dance)
- **Processional dance**: A dance that travels along a route, through streets or to a sacred place, instead of staying on one spot. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/processional-dance)
- **Quadrille**: A nineteenth-century ballroom dance for four couples in a square, made up of several set figures. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/quadrille)
- **Reel**: A fast dance tune in even time from Scotland and Ireland, and the dances done to it. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/reel)
- **Jig**: A lively dance and tune type with a skipping rhythm, strongly linked with Ireland and Scotland. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/jig)
- **Hornpipe**: A dance from the British Isles in a steady, bouncing rhythm, long linked with sailors. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/hornpipe)
- **Polka step**: A quick hop followed by three small steps, in lively two-beat time. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/polka-step)
- **Waltz step**: Three steps to a bar of three beats, with a strong first step and a rise and fall of the body. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/waltz-step)
- **Mazurka**: A Polish dance in triple time, with the accent on the second or third beat instead of the first. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/mazurka)
- **Set dance**: In Ireland, a social dance for four couples in a square, or a solo step dance to a particular tune. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/set-dance)
- **Step dance**: A dance in which the feet beat out fast rhythms while the upper body stays fairly still. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/step-dance)
- **Clogging**: Percussive folk dancing in which the feet strike the floor to keep time with the music. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/clogging)
- **Sword dance**: A dance performed with, over or around swords, found in many cultures. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/sword-dance)
- **Stick dance**: A dance in which the dancers carry sticks and strike them together in time with the music. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/stick-dance)
- **Mask dance**: A dance in which the performers wear masks and take on the characters of gods, spirits, animals or people. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/mask-dance)
- **Trance dance**: A dance in which repeated movement and music lead the dancer into an altered state of mind. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/trance-dance)
- **War dance**: A dance that prepares for, imitates or remembers battle. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/war-dance)
- **Harvest dance**: A dance tied to the farming year, performed to mark sowing, reaping or the gathering in of crops. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/harvest-dance)
- **Courtship dance**: A dance that acts out the pursuit and wooing of one partner by another. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/courtship-dance)
- **Dance-drama**: A stage form that tells a story through dance, usually with music, costume and sometimes speech or song. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/dance-drama)
- **Folk dance**: A dance that belongs to a community and is passed on by taking part, not by formal training. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/folk-dance)
- **Social dance**: Dancing done for enjoyment and company, not for an audience. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/social-dance)
- **Vernacular dance**: Dance that grows naturally in everyday community life, outside studios and schools. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/vernacular-dance)
- **Concert dance**: Dance made to be watched by an audience, usually on a stage and set by a choreographer. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/concert-dance)
- **Court dance**: Dance developed in royal palaces for rulers and their guests, usually formal and highly refined. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/court-dance)
- **Classical dance**: A dance tradition with a fixed technique, a body of theory, long formal training and a recognised repertoire. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/classical-dance)
- **Street dance**: A family of styles that grew up outside dance studios, in streets, clubs and block parties. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/street-dance)
- **Ballroom**: Partner dances done in a hall, socially or in competition, such as the waltz, foxtrot and tango. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/ballroom)
- **Latin**: In competition, the five dances cha-cha-cha, samba, rumba, paso doble and jive. More widely, the dances of Latin America. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/latin)
- **Standard and Smooth**: The two competition styles for the travelling ballroom dances such as waltz, tango and foxtrot. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/standard-and-smooth)
- **Dancesport**: Competitive ballroom and Latin dancing treated as a sport, with judges, rounds and rankings. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/dancesport)
- **Caller**: The person who tells the dancers which figure comes next at a square, contra or ceilidh dance. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/caller)
- **Choreographer**: The person who creates a dance, deciding the steps, patterns and how they fit the music. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/choreographer)
- **Corps de ballet**: The group of dancers in a ballet company who dance together as a body, not as soloists. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/corps-de-ballet)
- **Soloist**: A dancer who performs alone, and a rank in a ballet company between the corps and the principals. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/soloist)
- **Principal**: A dancer of the highest rank in a ballet company, who performs the leading roles. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/principal)
- **Ballet master**: The person in a dance company who takes daily class and rehearses the dancers in the repertory. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/ballet-master)
- **Troupe**: A group of dancers who train and perform together. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/troupe)
- **Crew**: A team of street dancers who practise, perform and battle together under one name. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/crew)
- **Cypher**: A circle of people at a hip-hop gathering, in which dancers take turns in the middle. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/cypher)
- **Battle**: A contest in which street dancers or crews take turns to outdance each other. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/battle)
- **Roda**: The circle of people inside which capoeira is played and samba de roda is danced. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/roda)
- **Tablao**: A venue with a small wooden stage where flamenco is performed for a seated audience. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tablao)
- **Milonga**: A social event where people dance Argentine tango. Also a faster dance and music style related to tango. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/milonga)
- **Ceilidh**: A Scottish or Irish social gathering with traditional music and group dancing. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/ceilidh)
- **Hālau**: A school of hula, led by a master teacher called the kumu hula. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/halau)
- **Griot**: A hereditary musician, storyteller and keeper of history in West African societies. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/griot)
- **Master drummer**: The lead drummer of an African drum ensemble, who directs both the music and the dancers. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/master-drummer)
- **Dance notation**: A system of symbols for writing down dance on paper, as sheet music does for music. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/dance-notation)
- **Labanotation**: A dance notation system that uses shaped blocks on a vertical staff, read from the bottom up. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/labanotation)
- **Benesh notation**: A dance notation system written on a five-line stave, read from left to right like music. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/benesh-notation)
- **Repertory**: The stock of dances that a company or dancer knows and is ready to perform. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/repertory)
- **Tutu**: The ballet skirt made of layers of stiff net, either long and bell-shaped or short and flat. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tutu)
- **Pointe shoe**: The satin ballet shoe with a stiff toe box and sole that lets a dancer stand on the tips of the toes. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/pointe-shoe)
- **Tap shoe**: A shoe with metal plates fixed under the toe and heel, which ring when they strike the floor. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/tap-shoe)
- **Bata de cola**: A flamenco dress with a long, heavy, ruffled train that the dancer swings and kicks into place. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/bata-de-cola)
- **Castanets**: Pairs of small shell-shaped wooden clappers held in the hands and clicked together. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/castanets)
- **Fan**: A hand-held fan used as a dance prop to extend the arm and to suggest objects or moods. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/fan)
- **Veil**: A large piece of light fabric that a dancer swirls, wraps and floats through the air. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/veil)
- **Zills**: Small metal finger cymbals played by a dancer, one pair on each hand. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/zills)
- **Poi**: A light ball on a cord, swung in rhythmic circles in Māori performing arts. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/poi)
- **Lei**: A Hawaiian garland of flowers, leaves, shells or feathers, worn by hula dancers on the head, neck, wrists and ankles. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/lei)
- **Pā'ū skirt**: The gathered wrap skirt worn for hula. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/pau-skirt)
- **Kimono sleeves**: The long hanging sleeves of the kimono, used as an expressive tool in Japanese classical dance. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/kimono-sleeves)
- **Headdress**: Any worn covering or ornament for the head that forms part of a dance costume. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/headdress)
- **Ankle bells**: Bells or rattles tied to the legs so that every step makes a sound. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/ankle-bells)
- **Handkerchief**: A cloth held in the hand and waved, twirled or passed between dancers. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/handkerchief)
- **Lion head**: The large painted head worn and worked by the front performer in a Chinese lion dance. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/lion-head)
- **Stilts**: Tall poles strapped to the legs, on which dancers walk, jump and spin high above the crowd. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/stilts)
- **Clogs**: Shoes with wooden soles, or carved entirely from wood, whose clatter is used in percussive dancing. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/clogs)
- **Ghillies**: Soft, thin-soled leather shoes that lace across the top of the foot, worn for Scottish and Irish dancing. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/ghillies)
- **Pūkana**: The wide-eyed, fierce facial expression used in haka and other Māori performing arts. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/pukana)
- **Wiri**: The rapid trembling of the hands seen throughout Māori haka, action songs and poi. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/wiri)
- **Hula kahiko and hula 'auana**: The two branches of Hawaiian hula: the old style danced to chant and drum, and the newer style danced to song and strings. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/hula-kahiko-and-auana)
- **Kata and kamae**: In Japanese dance and theatre, kata are the set movement patterns and kamae is the basic stance. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/kata-and-kamae)
- **Mai and odori**: The two broad kinds of Japanese dance: restrained, gliding mai, and livelier, stepping odori. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/mai-and-odori)
- **Wayang wong**: A Javanese dance-drama in which human performers act out stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharata. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/wayang-wong)
- **Legong**: A refined Balinese dance for young women, known for quick eye movements, fluttering fingers and sharp accents. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/legong)
- **Kecak**: A Balinese performance in which a large circle of men chant interlocking cak sounds in place of an orchestra. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/kecak)
- **Bedhaya**: A sacred, very slow court dance of central Java, performed by nine women. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/bedhaya)
- **Pencak**: The Indonesian martial art whose stances and strikes are also performed as dance to drums. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/pencak)
- **Ginga**: The swaying, rocking basic step of capoeira, from which every kick and dodge begins. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/ginga)
- **Samba no pé**: The solo samba step of Brazilian carnival: very fast small steps with a rolling action of the hips. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/samba-no-pe)
- **Bateria**: The percussion band of a Brazilian samba school, often several hundred players strong. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/bateria)
- **Cumbia step**: The short, shuffling step of Colombia's cumbia, danced by couples moving in a circle. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/cumbia-step)
- **Duende**: In flamenco, the rare moment of raw, deep feeling that seems to take hold of a performer. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/duende)
- **Braceo**: The carriage and movement of the arms in flamenco and Spanish dance. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/braceo)
- **Floreo**: The circling of the wrists and unfolding of the fingers in flamenco. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/floreo)
- **Dabke**: A line dance of the Levant, danced shoulder to shoulder with stamps, kicks and jumps. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/dabke)
- **Lawweeh**: The leader at the head of a dabke line, who directs the group and improvises. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/lawweeh)
- **Zaffa**: The noisy musical procession that leads the bride and groom at an Arab wedding. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/zaffa)
- **Hora**: A circle dance of Romania, the Balkans and Israel, with dancers linked by hands or shoulders. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/hora)
- **Adumu**: The jumping dance of Maasai warriors in Kenya and Tanzania. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/adumu)
- **Gumboot dance**: A South African dance of stamps and slaps on rubber boots, created by mine workers. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/gumboot)
- **Isicathamiya**: A Zulu style of unaccompanied male choral singing with soft, tiptoe dance steps. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/isicathamiya)
- **Sabar**: The drum, the dance and the dance party of the Wolof people of Senegal. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/sabar)
- **Djembe**: A goblet-shaped West African drum played with bare hands, widely used to accompany dance. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/djembe)
- **Azonto**: A Ghanaian popular dance of the early 2010s, built on hand movements that mime everyday actions. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/azonto)
- **Eskista**: An Ethiopian dance centred on fast shaking, rolling and bouncing of the shoulders. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/eskista)
- **Toyi-toyi**: A high-stepping march with chanting, used in protests in South Africa and Zimbabwe. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/toyi-toyi)
- **Kpanlogo**: A drum, dance and music style created by the Ga people of Accra, Ghana, around 1960. (https://everyghunghroo.com/glossary/kpanlogo)

## Dances
- [Ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballet), Italy: A technical concert dance that evolved from Renaissance courts into a global stage art
- [Flamenco](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/flamenco), Spain: A southern Spanish art form of rhythmic footwork, singing, and acoustic guitar
- [Tango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tango), Argentina: A dramatic partner dance born in the ports of the Río de la Plata.
- [Waltz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/waltz), Austria: A gliding partner dance in triple time, performed in a turning closed embrace
- [Folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/folk-dance), India: Traditional group dances rooted in local life and passed down through generations
- [Breakdancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/breakdancing), United States: A street dance style featuring acrobatic floorwork and freezes, born in the Bronx during the 1970s.
- [Capoeira](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/capoeira), Brazil: An Afro-Brazilian martial art played as a game inside a circle of singing onlookers
- [Belly dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/belly-dance), Egypt: A Middle Eastern dance focused on hip and torso articulation.
- [Polka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/polka), Czech Republic: A lively couple dance in two-four time that spread from Central Europe to the Americas and beyond.
- [Haka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/haka), New Zealand: A ceremonial group dance from New Zealand featuring vigorous movement and chanted words.
- [Bharatanatyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bharatanatyam), India: A South Indian classical dance from Tamil Nadu, performed solo in temples and on stages.
- [Samba-reggae](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/samba-reggae), Brazil: A Carnival street dance from Bahia, led by drummers and rooted in Afro-Brazilian pride
- [Kalaripayattu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kalaripayattu), India: An ancient Indian martial art from Kerala involving weapons, strikes, and healing.
- [Junkanoo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/junkanoo), Bahamas: A costumed street parade with drumming, dance and masquerade, held at Christmas and other times
- [Dancehall](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dancehall), Jamaica: A Jamaican street dance style shaped by sound system parties and fast rhythms
- [Deusi-Bhailo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/deusi-bhailo), Nepal: A house-to-house singing and dancing tradition during Tihar in Nepal
- [Dancing devils of Corpus Christi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dancing-devils-of-corpus-christi), Venezuela: Masked dancers in red parade and perform on Corpus Christi in Venezuelan towns
- [Wangga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/wangga), Australia: A ceremonial song and dance tradition of northern Aboriginal Australian communities
- [Dinagyang Festival](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dinagyang), Philippines: A street dance festival in Iloilo City honoring the Santo Niño and Ati history
- [Thai dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dance-in-thailand), Thailand: Classical and folk dances shaped by many cultures across Thailand’s regions
- [Paika akhada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/paika-akhada), India: A martial dance with swords and shields from Odisha, rooted in warrior training
- [Kabuki](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kabuki), Japan: A stylised Japanese theatre form using dance, drama and elaborate makeup.
- [Sanjuanito](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sanjuanito), Ecuador: A circle dance and music from Ecuador’s Andean highlands, often for Inti Raymi
- [Thang Ta](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/thang-ta), India: A martial art from Manipur using swords, spears, and unarmed moves
- [Små grodorna](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sma-grodorna), Sweden: A playful Swedish dance around the maypole for Midsummer, miming frog movements
- [Ramlila](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ramlila), India: A folk drama of the Ramayana, staged outdoors during Navaratri and Dussehra
- [Hakafot](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hakafot), Israel: A joyful circling procession with Torah scrolls in synagogue on Simchat Torah and Sukkot
- [Dhunuchi nritya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dhunachi), India: A dance with incense burners during Durga Puja in Bengal
- [Maracatu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maracatu), Brazil: A parade of drums, song and royal court figures from Pernambuco, Brazil
- [Zaffa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zaffa), Egypt: A wedding procession with music and dance across the Arab world
- [Awa Odori](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/awa-dance-festival), Japan: A group street dance of Tokushima, performed through the nights of Obon
- [Garba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/garba), India: A circle dance from Gujarat performed around a clay pot during the Navratri festival.
- [Tankō Bushi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tanko-bushi), Japan: A Bon dance from Japan with gestures of coal mining
- [Argentine tango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/argentine-tango), Argentina: A partner dance from Buenos Aires suburbs, defined by the bandoneon and an intimate embrace.
- [Processional giant](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/processional-giant), Belgium: Huge costumed figures carried and danced in European street processions
- [Mocko jumbie](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/moko-jumbie), Trinidad and Tobago: Tall stilt dancers in masks, leading Carnival parades across the Caribbean
- [Barbados Land-ship](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/barbados-landship), Barbados: A parade and dance tradition in Barbados, mimicking naval maneuvers on land
- [Egungun](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/egungun), Nigeria: A Yoruba ancestor masquerade where robed dancers embody the spirits of the dead.
- [Powwow](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/powwow), United States: A gathering of Indigenous communities with dance, song, and ceremony
- [Polonaise](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/polonaise), Poland: A walking dance in triple time that opens Polish balls and student proms
- [Mazurka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mazurka), Poland: A Polish triple-meter folk dance with shifting accents, popular in European ballrooms and salon music.
- [Salsa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/salsa), Cuba: A lively partner dance with spins and footwork, danced to salsa music worldwide
- [Minuet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/minuet), France: A French social dance for two people in triple time, known for its graceful and controlled steps.
- [Can-can](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/can-can), France: A high-energy French dance featuring vigorous kicks and skirt manipulation.
- [Kathakali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kathakali), India: A classical dance-drama from Kerala with vivid face paint and heavy headgear
- [Pasodoble](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pasodoble), Spain: A fast Spanish partner dance that mimics the drama of bullfighting through sharp, parallel movements.
- [Ballroom dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballroom-dance), United Kingdom: Partner dances performed socially and in competition, with roots in Europe
- [Foxtrot](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/foxtrot), United States: A smooth ballroom partner dance that travels around the floor to big band music
- [Csárdás](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/csardas), Hungary: A Hungarian folk dance that begins slowly and ends in a fast spin.
- [Lion dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lion-dance), China: A costumed dance that mimics a lion to bring luck and drive away evil
- [Cha-cha-cha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cha-cha-cha), Cuba: A Cuban partner dance with a shuffling triple step, danced to a steady four-four beat.
- [Tarantella](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tarantella), Italy: A fast southern Italian folk dance in six-eight time, accompanied by tambourines and hand clapping.
- [Tap dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tap-dance), United States: A percussive dance using metal-soled shoes to create rhythms on the floor
- [Twist](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/twist), United States: A solo dance where the hips swivel while the feet stay planted and the arms move in opposition.
- [Gavotte](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gavotte), France: A French court and folk dance in duple time with a characteristic half-bar upbeat.
- [Mambo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mambo), Cuba: A lively Cuban dance with syncopated steps and expressive movement
- [Kathak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kathak), India: A North Indian classical dance of rhythm and storytelling, shaped by temple roots and Mughal courts.
- [Jive](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jive), United States: A lively partner dance from 1930s African American communities in the US
- [Odissi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/odissi), India: A classical Indian dance form from Odisha with roots in temple sculptures and devotional poetry.
- [Allemande](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/allemande), Germany: A Baroque instrumental dance and a later Swiss triple-time social dance.
- [Hopak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hopak), Ukraine: A Ukrainian Cossack dance of jumps, squats and spins, often saved for the end of a show
- [Pole dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pole-dance), United States: A vertical acrobatic dance combining strength and artistry on a chrome or steel column.
- [Quadrille](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/quadrille), France: A social dance for four couples in a square, with set figures and changing music
- [Dragon dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dragon-dance), China: A team dance with a giant dragon puppet, seen at Chinese New Year and festivals
- [Sirtaki](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sirtaki), Greece: A line dance that starts slow and speeds up, created for the film Zorba the Greek.
- [Pavane](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pavane), Italy: A slow, processional couple dance of the European Renaissance.
- [Krakowiak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/krakowiak), Poland: A fast Polish partner dance from Kraków, known for its syncopated rhythm and circle formation.
- [Cumbia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cumbia-colombia), Colombia: A Colombian circle dance where couples pursue each other with candles and hats without touching.
- [Quickstep](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/quickstep), United Kingdom: A lively ballroom dance with fast steps and syncopated rhythms
- [Kuchipudi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kuchipudi), India: A classical Indian dance-drama from Andhra Pradesh, performed by men and women to Carnatic music.
- [Lezginka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lezginka), Russia: A fast-paced folk dance from the North Caucasus, performed solo or in pairs
- [Mohiniyattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mohiniyattam), India: A soft solo classical dance from Kerala, once banned, then brought back
- [Koodiyattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/koodiyattam), India: Temple theatre of Kerala, where one Sanskrit role can take many nights
- [Chhau](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chhau), India: A martial and folk dance with masks, performed in eastern India during spring festivals
- [Bourrée](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bourree), France: A lively French dance in double or triple time, once found in both villages and courts
- [Manipuri dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/manipuri-dance), India: A classical dance-drama from Manipur, telling stories of Krishna and Radha
- [Charleston](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/charleston), United States: A fast-paced dance with kicks and twists, first popular in 1920s America
- [Viennese waltz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/viennese-waltz), Austria: A fast-turning partner dance from Vienna, danced in a closed hold
- [Fandango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fandango), Spain: A lively Spanish partner dance in triple meter, accompanied by guitars and castanets.
- [Contemporary dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/contemporary-dance), United States: A stage dance style blending ballet, modern, and many other influences
- [Jazz dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jazz-dance), United States: A performance style born in African American communities that blends improvisation with theatrical movement.
- [Dabke](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dabke), Palestine: A line and circle dance for celebrations across the Levant
- [Kolo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kolo), Serbia: A South Slavic circle dance for groups at weddings and celebrations
- [Kizomba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kizomba), Angola: A slow partner dance from Angola, blending Semba steps with Zouk rhythms for social gatherings.
- [Hula](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hula), United States: A Hawaiian dance that interprets song or chant through movement and gesture
- [Swing dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/swing), United States: A lively group of partner dances born with jazz in 1920s–40s America
- [Sardana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sardana), Spain: A circle dance from Catalonia, open to all who know its steps
- [Irish dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/irish-dance), Ireland: Solo and group dances from Ireland, known for fast footwork and lively formations
- [Jumpstyle](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jumpstyle), Belgium: A high-energy dance with fast kicks, set to hard electronic music from Belgium and the Netherlands
- [Butoh](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/butoh), Japan: A Japanese dance theatre form known for slow, controlled movement and white body makeup.
- [Călușari](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/calusari), Romania: A springtime men's ritual dance with acrobatics and sticks from Romania
- [Umhlanga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/umhlanga-ceremony), Eswatini: An annual gathering where young women carry reeds and dance before royalty
- [Jig](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jig), Ireland: A lively folk dance in compound time, central to Irish and Scottish tradition
- [Cham dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cham-dance), Bhutan: A masked Buddhist ritual dance performed at festivals in Tibet, Bhutan, and Mongolia
- [Ganggangsullae](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ganggangsullae), South Korea: A Korean circle dance sung and danced by women under the full moon
- [Hora](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hora), Romania: A group circle dance found across Southeast Europe and in Jewish communities
- [Oberek](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/oberek), Poland: A fast Polish folk dance in triple metre, defined by spinning and jumps.
- [Ländler](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/landler), Austria: A lively partner dance with hops and stamps, found across Austria and its neighbors
- [Yakshagana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yakshagana), India: A coastal Karnataka dance-drama performed from dusk to dawn with elaborate costumes and live music.
- [Farandole](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/farandole), France: A long chain dance of Provence, led by a drummer with a tambourine and flute.
- [Kagura](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kagura), Japan: A Shinto ritual dance where performers channel deities through slow circling and energetic leaping.
- [Diablada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/diablada), Bolivia: A masked folk dance of Bolivia depicting the battle between angels and devils.
- [Tandava](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tandava), India: A vigorous dance of Shiva, seen in Indian classical and ritual traditions
- [Melbourne shuffle](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/melbourne-shuffle), Australia: A freestyle club dance with sliding steps and quick footwork from Melbourne’s rave scene
- [Popping](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/popping), United States: A street dance built on quick muscle contractions, born in California’s funk scene
- [Line dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/line-dance), United States: A group choreography where dancers face the same direction in rows without touching.
- [Circle dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/circle-dance), Greece: A group dance in a circle or curved line, joined by hand and led around the floor
- [Limbo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/limbo), Trinidad and Tobago: A contest to pass backward under a bar set lower each round
- [Bachata](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bachata), Dominican Republic: A Dominican couple dance in eight counts, with a hip check on the fourth beat
- [Morris dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/morris-dance), United Kingdom: A group folk dance from England, with bells, sticks or handkerchiefs
- [Contra dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/contra-dance), United States: A long-line social folk dance with a caller, danced to live fiddle tunes in the United States and Canada.
- [Frevo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/frevo), Brazil: A fast, acrobatic umbrella dance from the streets of Recife, Brazil.
- [Jitterbug](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jitterbug), United States: A lively partner dance with fast footwork and spins, rooted in swing music
- [Hip-hop dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hip-hop-dance), United States: Improvised street dance styles shaped by hip-hop music and culture
- [Classical ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/classical-ballet), Italy: A formal stage dance using turnout, pointe work and precise, flowing movement
- [Bhangra](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bhangra), India: A high-energy circle dance from Punjab, led by the beat of the dhol drum
- [Giddha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/giddha), India: A Punjabi women's folk dance in a singing, clapping circle
- [Square dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/square-dance), United States: A group dance for four couples in a square, led by a caller or set routine
- [Cuban rumba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cuban-rumba), Cuba: A street and courtyard dance with song and drums from Havana and Matanzas
- [Vogue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/vogue), United States: A stylized dance of poses and battles from the Harlem ballroom scene
- [Legong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/legong), Indonesia: A Balinese dance with intricate finger, foot and facial movements
- [Lakalaka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lakalaka), Tonga: A standing group dance of Tonga where rows of performers gesture with outstretched arms while singing.
- [Kalbelia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kalbelia), India: A Rajasthani folk dance by the Kalbelia, echoing the movements of snakes
- [Kecak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kecak), Indonesia: A massed chant and dance-drama from Bali, performed in a circle at dusk
- [Mbalax](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mbalax), Senegal: Urban dance from Senegal built on Wolof sabar drumming and modern pop sounds
- [Branle](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/branle), France: A French chain dance of linked couples moving side to side, popular from the 1500s.
- [Cakewalk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cakewalk), United States: A partnered dance contest where couples strut for a cake prize, born in the Southern United States.
- [Locking](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/locking): A funk dance with sudden freezes, playful moves, and lively audience interaction
- [Khon](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khon), Thailand: A masked dance drama from Thailand, performed to the Ramakien epic.
- [Talchum](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/talchum), South Korea: A Korean mask dance-drama mixing satire, ritual and story
- [Hornpipe](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hornpipe), United Kingdom: A solo or couple dance with lively steps, found in Britain and Ireland since the 16th century
- [Adumu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/adumu), Kenya: A vertical leaping dance performed by Maasai warriors in a circle to show strength and agility.
- [Samba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/samba-q1375949), Brazil: A lively Brazilian dance with fast footwork and syncopated rhythms
- [Rueda de Casino](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rueda-de-casino), Cuba: A Cuban salsa dance in a circle, with moves called out and partners swapping
- [Bihu dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bihu-dance), India: A group folk dance from Assam, performed at the Bihu spring festival
- [Verbunkos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/verbunkos), Hungary: A Hungarian recruiting dance with slow and fast sections played by Romani musicians.
- [Acrobatic rock and roll](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rock-and-roll): A fast partner dance with flips and lifts, danced in formal competition.
- [Dandiya Raas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dandiya-raas), India: A stick dance from Gujarat, performed in pairs during Navaratri
- [Chacarera](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chacarera), Argentina: A partner dance from Santiago del Estero, with stamping feet and a waved handkerchief
- [Céilidh](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ceilidh), United Kingdom: A social dance gathering with live music from Scotland and Ireland
- [Kuduro](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kuduro), Angola: A fast electronic dance from Angola with sharp, staccato movements inspired by street life and resilience.
- [Lavani](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lavani), India: A fast-paced song and dance form from Maharashtra performed to the dholki drum.
- [Schottische](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/schottische), Czech Republic: A partnered country dance with sidesteps and turns, found across Europe and the Americas
- [Ardah](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ardah), Saudi Arabia: A group sword or cane dance in two lines, performed by men in Saudi Arabia
- [Saltarello](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/saltarello), Italy: A fast Italian folk dance defined by its characteristic leaping step.
- [Danzón](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/danzon), Cuba: A slow, formal partner dance from Cuba, danced in set patterns with elegant pauses.
- [Galop](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/galop), France: A fast-paced ballroom dance in 2/4 time, often closing the night
- [Tinikling](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tinikling), Philippines: A Philippine dance where dancers step between moving bamboo poles
- [Pendet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pendet-dance), Indonesia: A Balinese dance where girls offer flowers to greet guests and spirits
- [Drametse Ngacham](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/drametse-ngacham), Bhutan: A masked drum dance performed by monks in Drametse, eastern Bhutan
- [Sattriya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sattriya), India: A classical dance-drama from Assam, rooted in Vaishnava monastery tradition
- [Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/theyyam), India: A North Malabar ritual dance where performers become deities through song and elaborate makeup.
- [Corroboree](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/corroboree), Australia: A gathering of Aboriginal Australians with dance, music, and body decoration
- [Ghoomar](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ghoomar), India: A circle dance of twirling women, performed at weddings and festivals in Rajasthan
- [Balboa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/balboa), United States: A compact swing partner dance from Southern California, danced closely in closed position.
- [Cueca](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cueca), Chile: A partner dance with handkerchiefs, tracing circles in Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
- [Tahtib](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tahtib), Egypt: A stick-fighting martial art turned folk dance from Upper Egypt
- [Sevillanas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sevillanas), Spain: A festive couple dance from Sevilla, often seen at fairs and family gatherings
- [Maculelê](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maculele), Brazil: A stick dance from Bahia, Brazil, performed in a circle with singing and drumming
- [Joropo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/joropo), Venezuela: A fast-paced partner dance of the plains, featuring vigorous footwork and string instruments.
- [Hasapiko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hasapiko), Turkey: A two-speed Greek folk dance from Constantinople, first danced by its butchers
- [Soleá](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/solea), Spain: A solemn flamenco song and dance in 12-beat rhythm from Andalusia
- [Pungmul](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pungmul), South Korea: A Korean folk performance with drumming, dance, and song, rooted in farming life
- [Contact Improvisation](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/contact-improvisation), United States: A partner dance built on touch and shared weight, created in the United States during the early 1970s.
- [Nihon-buyō](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nihon-buyo), Japan: A classical Japanese stage dance refined from kabuki and older traditions.
- [Khorovod](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khorovod), Russia: A Slavic circle dance with singing, done hand in hand
- [Čoček](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cocek), Serbia: A Balkan folk dance with shifting rhythms, often played by Romani brass bands
- [Reel](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/reel), United Kingdom: A lively folk dance from Scotland and Ireland, done to quick, even-paced music
- [Attan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/attan), Afghanistan: A fast-paced circle dance of the Pashtun people, performed at celebrations and gatherings
- [Zamba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zamba-artform), Argentina: A slow partner dance from Argentina, with couples circling and waving white handkerchiefs
- [Veeragase](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/veeragase), India: A vigorous ritual dance of Karnataka performed by Veerashaiva men to enact the legend of Veerabhadra.
- [Pizzica](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pizzica), Italy: A fast couple dance from the Salento peninsula, part of the tarantella family.
- [Huayno](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/huayno), Peru: A lively Andean partner dance with stamping steps and bright melodies
- [Peacock dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/peacock-dance), China: A folk dance imitating the peacock, found across South and Southeast Asia
- [Kalamatianos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kalamatianos), Greece: A lively Greek circle dance in a 7/8 rhythm, often led with a handkerchief
- [Sufi whirling](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sufi-whirling), Turkey: A meditative spinning dance practiced by Sufi dervishes during worship ceremonies
- [Jarabe Tapatío](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mexican-hat-dance), Mexico: A courtship dance from Jalisco, now Mexico’s national dance
- [Cheraw](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cheraw), India: A bamboo pole dance of the Mizo people, performed in groups with rhythmic footwork
- [Dollu Kunitha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dollu-kunitha), India: A vigorous drum dance performed in Karnataka, led by a circle of drummers
- [Ahidus](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ahidus), Morocco: A Berber circle dance from Morocco, performed by tribes for celebration and unity.
- [Halay](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/halay), Turkey: A group dance in lines or circles, led by music or singing at weddings and celebrations
- [Alegrías](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/alegrias), Spain: A lively flamenco dance from Cádiz with a 12-beat rhythm
- [Gumboot dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gumboot-dance), South Africa: A South African dance performed in rubber boots, using stamping and slapping for rhythm
- [Gotipua](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gotipua), India: A group dance by boys dressed as women, honouring Krishna in Odisha
- [Fugdi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fugdi), India: A circle dance of clapping and singing by women in Goa and the Konkan
- [Waacking](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/waacking), United States: A street dance with fast arm moves and dramatic poses, set to disco music
- [Bulería](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bulerias), Spain: A fast, improvisational flamenco dance in a 12-beat cycle from Jerez
- [Schuhplattler](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/schuhplattler), Germany: A stomping, slapping folk dance from the Eastern Alps, danced in lederhosen and dirndls
- [Contemporary ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/contemporary-ballet), Russia: A ballet form blending classical technique with modern dance movement
- [Kamarinskaya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kamarinskaya), Russia: A fast Russian folk dance with squatting steps, played to a repeating tune
- [Romantic ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/romantic-ballet): Ballet shaped by Romantic ideals, known for ethereal ballerinas and flowing tutus
- [Agbadza](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/agbadza), Ghana: A lively Ewe group dance from Ghana and Togo, evolved from ancient war drills into joyful celebration.
- [Plena](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/plena), Puerto Rico: A Puerto Rican folk dance and music genre born in Ponce around 1900.
- [Caporales](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/caporales), Bolivia: A lively Bolivian folk dance inspired by the overseer figure of the Yungas region
- [Khorumi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khorumi), Georgia: A large-scale men's war dance from Adjara in southwestern Georgia
- [Morenada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/morenada), Bolivia: A Bolivian folk dance featuring exaggerated masks and rattling instruments to depict historical figures.
- [Irish stepdance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/irish-stepdance), Ireland: A dance of rapid footwork and still upper body, performed solo or in groups
- [Bagurumba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bagurumba), India: A group dance by Boro women, echoing butterflies and nature in Assam
- [Buchaechum](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/buchaechum), South Korea: A group fan dance created in 1954, performed by women using large painted fans.
- [Kurdish dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kurdish-dance), Iran: Traditional circle and line dances of the Kurdish people, often led by handkerchief twirlers
- [Eskista](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/eskista), Ethiopia: A shoulder dance with sharp upper body movements from Ethiopia’s Amhara people
- [Nati](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nati), India: A group folk dance from Himachal Pradesh, danced in circles at festivals and celebrations
- [Scottish highland dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/highland-dance), United Kingdom: A solo step dance with raised arms, performed at Highland games and competitions
- [Polska](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/polska), Sweden: A Nordic partner dance in triple time, with many local styles and rhythms
- [Black Bottom](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/black-bottom), United States: A lively solo or couple dance from the 1920s Jazz Age, rooted in African American communities
- [Eisa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/eisa), Japan: A drumming and dance procession for Obon, led by Okinawan youth in lines or circles
- [Ottan Thullal](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ottan-thullal), India: A solo recited-and-danced satire from Kerala, performed with drum and cymbals
- [Krishnanattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/krishnanattam), India: A temple dance-drama telling Krishna’s story in eight plays at Guruvayur, Kerala
- [Tinku](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tinku), Bolivia: A Bolivian dance that echoes ritual combat, with bold costumes and warlike rhythms
- [Tsamiko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tsamiko), Greece: A Greek folk dance in a line or circle, marked by slow steps and acrobatic leaps
- [Carimbó](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/carimbo), Brazil: A hip-swaying dance from the Amazon delta, named for its signature drum.
- [Country dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/country-dance), United Kingdom: A group social dance with set figures, danced in lines, squares or circles
- [Apsara Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/apsara-dance), Cambodia: A Cambodian court dance performed by women in elaborate costumes to tell ancient myths.
- [War dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/war-dance), Indonesia: A ritual or ceremonial dance that imitates combat or battle
- [Karakattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/karakattam), India: A Tamil folk dance balancing decorated pots on the head in honor of Mariamman
- [Baris](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/baris-dance), Indonesia: A Balinese dance that honors the spirit and stance of a warrior
- [Kara Jorga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kara-jorga), Kazakhstan: A Kazakh folk dance mimicking the ambling gait of a horse through rhythmic shoulder movements.
- [Lazgi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lazgi), Uzbekistan: A fast-paced folk dance from Uzbekistan's Khorezm region, with lively hand and body moves
- [Yangge](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yangge), China: A lively folk dance in lines or circles, often with ribbons, drums, and fans
- [Azonto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/azonto), Ghana: A Ghanaian dance of mimed daily actions and playful gestures.
- [Raqs sharqi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/raqs-sharqi), Egypt: The classical Egyptian stage style of belly dance developed in the early twentieth century.
- [Hulivesha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pili-yesa), India: A street dance in Karnataka where men painted as tigers perform during festivals
- [Indlamu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/indlamu), South Africa: A Zulu and Ndebele dance with high kicks and stamping, once linked to warriors
- [Thiruvathirakkali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/thiruvathirakkali), India: A circle dance by women, sung and clapped on Thiruvathira night in Kerala
- [Barong dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/barong-dance), Indonesia: A Balinese dance-drama of Barong and Rangda, showing the struggle of good and evil
- [Cuban salsa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cuban-salsa), Cuba: A Cuban partner dance with circular moves and Afro-Cuban flair
- [Troika](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/troika), Russia: A staged Russian dance where performers mimic horses pulling a sleigh.
- [Zapin](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zapin), Yemen: A Malay partner dance with Arab roots, performed to the strum of a lute and the beat of drums.
- [Neoclassical ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/neoclassical-ballet), Russia: A 20th-century ballet style with classical technique and a stripped-down look
- [Faroese chain dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/faroese-chain-dance): A circle dance from the Faroe Islands, sung to ballads and danced hand in hand
- [Guaguancó](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/guaguanco), Cuba: A Cuban rumba couple dance of playful pursuit and percussion
- [Yowlah](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yowlah), United Arab Emirates: A group stick and weapon dance performed at celebrations in the UAE and Oman
- [Horon](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/horon), Turkey: A fast line dance from Turkey's Black Sea coast, known for its shoulder shimmy and sudden squats.
- [Mayilattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mayilattam), India: A peacock-inspired dance performed at Murugan temples during festivals
- [Gair dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gair-dance), India: A stick dance in circles, performed by men and women in Rajasthan during festivals
- [Jewish dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jewish-dance), Israel: Dances and dance traditions across Jewish communities and celebrations
- [An dro](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/an-dro), France: A Breton circle dance with linked pinkies and swaying arms
- [Kummi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kummi), India: A circle dance with clapping, led by women in Tamil Nadu and Kerala
- [Hustle](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hustle), United States: A fast-paced partner dance from 1970s New York nightclubs, set to disco music
- [Bomba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bomba-puerto-rico), Puerto Rico: A drum-and-dance tradition from Puerto Rico where the dancer leads the drummer in a rhythmic conversation.
- [Kapa haka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kapa-haka), New Zealand: A Māori ensemble performance of song, dance, and traditional movement from New Zealand.
- [Romvong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/romvong), Laos: A slow circle dance for men and women at festivals and gatherings in Southeast Asia
- [Scottish country dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/scottish-country-dance), United Kingdom: A social dance for sets of couples, using Scottish steps and figures
- [Merengue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/merengue), Dominican Republic: A danced walk for couples, with hip movement and lively music from the Dominican Republic
- [Lezim](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lezim), India: A group dance from Maharashtra using jingling hand instruments and energetic steps
- [Baroque dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/baroque-dance), France: Court and social dances from Europe’s Baroque era, 1600–1750
- [Mezmar](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mezmar), Saudi Arabia: A stick song-dance from western Saudi Arabia, performed with drums and clapping.
- [Syrtos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/syrtos), Greece: A hand-linked Greek line and circle dance led by a solo improviser
- [Kummattikali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kummattikali), India: A colourful mask dance performed door to door during Onam in Kerala
- [Java](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/java), France: A fast, close partner dance from French bal-musette halls
- [Seungmu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/seungmu), South Korea: A solo Korean dance with long white sleeves and a drum, tracing cosmic cycles.
- [Bal-musette](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bal-musette), France: A Parisian social dance set to accordion waltzes, polkas, and tangos
- [Mapalé](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mapale), Colombia: A fast, energetic Afro-Colombian dance echoing the movements of fish and the sea
- [Zamacueca](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zamacueca), Peru: A lively partner dance from Peru, marked by waving handkerchiefs and syncopated steps
- [Barn dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/barn-dance), United States: A social dance event with simple steps, often guided by a caller
- [Calinda](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/calinda), Trinidad and Tobago: A Caribbean stick-fighting dance and martial art seen at Trinidad Carnival
- [Conga line](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/conga-line), Cuba: A single-file procession dance with a four-step rhythm, originating in Cuba.
- [Pagode](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pagode), Brazil: A samba-based dance and music style from Brazil's late 20th-century celebrations
- [Thabal chongba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/thabal-chongba), India: A circle dance from Manipur, performed outdoors during the Yaoshang festival
- [Rejang dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rejang-dance), Indonesia: A sacred Balinese dance offering performed by girls at temple ceremonies
- [Hambo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hambo), Sweden: A Swedish couple dance with turning steps and a steady three-beat rhythm
- [Ahwash](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ahwash), Morocco: A Shilha collective dance and song tradition from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
- [Kamsale](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kamsale), India: A devotional dance with cymbals, performed by Kuruba devotees in southern Karnataka
- [Atilogwu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/atilogwu), Nigeria: An energetic Igbo youth dance featuring acrobatics and drum music in Nigeria
- [Barynya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/barynya), Russia: A fast Russian folk dance with squats, jumps and comic song
- [Meke](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/meke), Fiji: A traditional Fijian group dance performed at celebrations and festivals
- [Kumina](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kumina), Jamaica: A Jamaican spirit-healing dance tradition rooted in Kongo ancestry and drumming.
- [Kullawada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kullawada), Bolivia: A group dance honoring Andean spinners and weavers, seen in Bolivia and Peru
- [Electro dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/electro-dance), France: A French street dance with sharp arm patterns and shuffling feet, danced to electronic beats.
- [Singkil](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/singkil), Philippines: A courtship dance weaving through clapping bamboo poles, accompanied by gongs.
- [Pung Cholom](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pung-cholom), India: A Manipuri dance where performers drum and dance with acrobatic grace
- [Ball de bastons](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ball-de-bastons), Spain: A ritual stick dance from Catalonia featuring intricate clashing patterns in two rows.
- [Contradanza](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/contradanza), Cuba: A Cuban partner dance with African rhythms that influenced jazz and tango
- [Kwassa kwassa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kwassa-kwassa), Democratic Republic of the Congo: A hip-swaying dance from Kinshasa that mimics shifting gears.
- [Gammaldans](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gammaldans), Sweden: A set of social partner dances from the Nordic countries, popular since the late 1800s.
- [Pangalay](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pangalay), Philippines: A traditional fingernail dance of the Tausūg and Bajau peoples in the Sulu Archipelago and Sabah.
- [Dhamail](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dhamail), Bangladesh: A circle dance of women in Sylhet, performed at weddings with mirdanga and kartals.
- [Dhunuchi dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dhunuchi-nritya), India: A devotional dance with incense pots, performed during Durga Puja in Bengal
- [Sumazau](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sumazau), Malaysia: A paired dance with outstretched arms, performed to gongs in Sabah’s Kaamatan festival
- [Hooping](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hooping), United States: An object manipulation art form using a rotating hoop around the body or in tricks.
- [Llamerada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/llamerada), Bolivia: A dance honoring llama herders of the Andean highlands
- [Xaxado](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/xaxado), Brazil: A sliding dance from the Brazilian Sertão, originally performed by cangaceiros to celebrate victories.
- [Gujō Odori](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gujo-odori), Japan: A summer circle dance festival open to all in Gujō, Japan
- [Cumbia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cumbia), Colombia: A paired folk dance from Colombia's coast, now a pan-Latin American tradition with many regional styles.
- [Oyilattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/oyilattam), India: A line dance from Tamil Nadu, done at village festivals after the harvest
- [Milonga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/milonga), Argentina: A lively partner dance from Argentina with fast, rhythmic steps
- [Mbende Jerusarema](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mbende-jerusarema-dance), Zimbabwe: A traditional Shona dance from eastern Zimbabwe featuring acrobatic movements and animal-inspired steps.
- [Matachines](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/matachines), Mexico: A masked ritual dance of Native American communities in the Americas, blending Spanish and indigenous traditions.
- [Ngajat](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ngajat), Malaysia: A traditional Iban dance from Sarawak mimicking birds and warriors through rhythmic jumping.
- [Joget](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/joget), Malaysia: A couple's folk dance from Malacca with Portuguese roots and quick duple beats.
- [Ballroom tango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballroom-tango), Argentina: A stylized partner dance developed in Europe and the US from Argentine roots.
- [Malambo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/malambo), Argentina: A fast, competitive dance of footwork and showmanship from Argentina’s gaucho tradition
- [Danza de los Viejitos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/danza-de-los-viejitos), Mexico: A comic folk dance from Michoacán, performed by men in old men's masks and hats
- [Mayim Mayim](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mayim-mayim), Israel: A circle dance celebrating water discovery in a kibbutz, danced to lyrics from the Bible.
- [Yingge dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yingge-dance), China: A Chaoshan folk performance with painted faces and wooden sticks.
- [Highland Fling](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/highland-fling), United Kingdom: A solo Scottish step dance performed in a fixed spot to Strathspey tunes.
- [Baile folklórico](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/baile-folklorico), Mexico: Stage versions of regional folk dances from Mexico and Central America
- [Yak dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yak-dance), India: A Himalayan masked pantomime honoring the yak during the Losar festival
- [Burmese dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/burmese-dance), Myanmar: Energetic and angular dances from Myanmar, shaped by history and myth
- [Scottish sword dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/scottish-sword-dances), United Kingdom: A Highland war dance performed around crossed blades, recorded in Scotland since the 15th century.
- [Seann Triubhas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/seann-triubhas), United Kingdom: A solo Highland dance performed in a kilt to bagpipe music, featuring slow brushes and quick leaps.
- [Ballos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballos), Greece: A couples’ dance from the Greek islands, shaped by courtship and playful interaction
- [Native American Hoop Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/native-american-hoop-dance), United States: A solo dance using multiple hoops to form shapes of animals and the cycle of life.
- [Samba de Gafieira](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/samba-de-gafieira), Brazil: A Brazilian partner dance from Rio’s dance halls, shaped by samba and tango
- [Charkula](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/charkula), India: A folk dance in Braj where women balance lamp-lit pyramids on their heads to honor Krishna.
- [Siva Samoa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/siva-samoa), Samoa: A graceful Samoan dance performed by women, preserving traditional movement and posture.
- [Fa'ataupati](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fa-ataupati), Samoa: A rhythmic group dance where men slap their own bodies to mimic swatting mosquitoes.
- [Bar](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bar), Turkey: A group folk dance from Eastern Anatolia, performed side-by-side with linked arms.
- [Taualuga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/taualuga), Samoa: A solo ceremonial dance of Samoa, performed by chiefs' children as the finale of celebrations.
- [Jingle dress dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jingle-dress), United States: A healing pow wow dance for women, performed in a dress adorned with metal cones that jingle as they move.
- [Nyau](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nyau), Malawi: A masked ritual dance of the Chewa people in Central and Southern Africa
- ['Aparima](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/aparima), Tonga: A Tahitian hand dance using mimics to tell stories from daily life or myth.
- [Dashing White Sergeant](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dashing-white-sergeant), United Kingdom: A Scottish circle dance in four-four time, danced by groups of six.
- [Fancy dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fancy-dance), United States: A fast, athletic Native American dance performed at powwows by men and women in colorful regalia.
- [Gourd Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gourd-dance), United States: A ceremonial circle dance of the Kiowa people, marked by strict regalia and songs honoring a red wolf.
- [Concheros](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/concheros), Mexico: A ceremonial group dance blending indigenous and Catholic traditions in Mexico
- [Sequence dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sequence-dance), United Kingdom: A group dance style following preset movement patterns to specific musical sequences.
- [Perinița](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/perinita), Romania: A Romanian circle dance with a handkerchief or pillow, done before a wedding
- [Slow drag](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/slow-drag), United States: An intimate American couples dance swaying to ragtime and blues music
- [Sean-nós dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sean-nos-dance), Ireland: A casual solo Irish dance with improvised footwork and free arm movement.
- [Strip the willow](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/strip-the-willow), United Kingdom: A longways set dance where couples spin and swing down a line of partners.
- [Blues dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/blues-dance), United States: A family of historical partner dances from the United States, danced to blues music with a grounded and improvisational 
- [Gangsta Walking](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gangsta-walking), United States: A Memphis street dance born in the 1980s featuring stomps, slides and circle formations.
- [Yein](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yein), Myanmar: A traditional Burmese group dance featuring synchronized body movements to drum beats.
- [Kolattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kolattam), India: A Tamil folk dance where women strike wooden sticks in circles to create rhythm.
- [Uprock](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/uprock), United States: A competitive street dance of hand gestures and footwork from New York City.
- [Furry Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/furry-dance), United Kingdom: A springtime procession through Helston, marked by music and flowers
- [Traditional square dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/traditional-square-dance), United States: A group dance in fours, led by a caller to live fiddle tunes across North America.
- [Bruckins](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bruckins), Jamaica: A stately Jamaican dance and pageant for Emancipation Day
- [Sama](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sama-sufism), Turkey: A Sufi ritual of listening, prayer, and whirling dance to reach spiritual ecstasy
- [Second line](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/second-line-parades), United States: A New Orleans parade tradition where community members follow brass bands in free-form dance.
- [Red River Jig](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/red-river-jig), Canada: A traditional jig and fiddle tune of the Canadian Métis people, danced with technical footwork.
- [Fan dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fan-dance): A performance using large fans to create shapes and interpret music.
- [Irish set dancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/irish-set-dancing), Ireland: A square folk dance of eight people, performed to Irish tunes without a caller.
- [Ghost Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ghost-dance), United States: A circle dance of Native Americans that reunites the living with spirits of the dead.
- [Noh](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/noh), Japan: A masked dance-drama of Japan, performed since the fourteenth century.
- [Border Morris](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/border-morris), United Kingdom: A winter stick dance from the English villages near Wales
- [Tobas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tobas), Bolivia: A high-energy Bolivian festival dance with jumps and feathered costumes
- [Sher](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sher): A square formation set dance in Klezmer music, where couples cross like scissors.
- [Kavadi Aattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kavadi-aattam), India: A Tamil devotional dance where devotees carry heavy burdens and pierce their skin as offerings to Murugan.
- [Pulikali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pulikali), India: A tiger-painted folk dance performed during the Onam harvest festival in Kerala.
- [Striptease](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/striptease), France: An erotic dance in which the performer slowly undresses for an audience
- [Cheerleading](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cheerleading), United States: A team activity combining chants, jumps, tumbling and stunts to support sports squads or compete.
- [Twerking](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/twerking), United States: A hip-thrusting dance rooted in African traditions and New Orleans bounce music.
- [Sarabande](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sarabande), Spain: A triple-meter dance that evolved from a lively Spanish folk form to a slow Baroque court staple.
- [Lambada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lambada), Brazil: A close-contact partner dance from Brazil with side-to-side hip movement and spins.
- [Merengue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/merengue-music), Dominican Republic: A fast-paced partner dance from the Dominican Republic played with accordion and drums.
- [Rhumba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballroom-rumba), United States: A slow ballroom dance developed in the US from Cuban rhythms and big band music.
- [Gigue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gigue), France: A lively baroque dance in compound time, often closing a musical suite.
- [Bolero](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bolero), Spain: A Spanish partner dance in 3/4 time, accompanied by guitar and castanets.
- [Courante](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/courante): A triple metre dance from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, appearing in two distinct styles.
- [Jota](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jota-music), Spain: A lively Spanish folk dance with castanets and regional costumes
- [Moshing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/moshing), United States: A high-energy dance of pushing and slamming in a pit to aggressive music.
- [Eurythmy](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/eurythmy), Switzerland: An expressive movement art that translates music and speech into visible form through gesture.
- [Street dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/street-dance), United States: A social dance style born in open urban spaces during the 1970s.
- [International Standard Waltz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/international-standard-waltz), Austria: A ballroom dance in three-quarter time, danced along the counter-clockwise line of dance.
- [Passepied](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/passepied), France: A fast French court dance from Brittany, danced in triple time with light steps.
- [Candombe](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/candombe), Uruguay: A drum-driven street dance of African descent in Uruguay and Argentina
- [Electro dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tecktonik), France: A French street dance of angular arm patterns and shuffling feet performed to electro house beats.
- [Cotillion](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cotillion), France: A square formation social dance popular in eighteenth-century Europe and America.
- [Pogo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pogo): A jumping dance linked to punk rock shows
- [Soukous](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/soukous), Democratic Republic of the Congo: A fast-paced Congolese dance music style with intricate guitar work and energetic movement.
- [Kozachok](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kozachok), Ukraine: A fast couple dance from the Cossacks, led by the woman in a clapping rhythm.
- [Chamamé](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chamame), Argentina: A partnered folk dance from Argentina blending Guaraní and European roots.
- [Para Para](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/para-para), Japan: A Japanese club dance with upper-body choreography set to Eurobeat
- [Rigaudon](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rigaudon), France: A lively French baroque couple dance with a duple rhythm and hopping steps.
- [Mak yong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mak-yong), Malaysia: A traditional Kelantanese dance-drama with ritual roots and a royal lead.
- [Cheoyongmu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cheoyongmu), South Korea: A five-person mask dance from Korea, danced to banish bad luck at year's end.
- [Boogie-woogie](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/boogie-woogie): A six-beat European swing dance for pairs, danced socially and taken into contests.
- [Sega](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sega-genre), Mauritius: A hip-focused dance and music tradition from the islands of Mauritius and Réunion.
- [Tumba francesa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tumba-francesa), Cuba: A drum and dance tradition in eastern Cuba with roots in Haiti
- [Bhuta Kola](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/buta-kola), India: A Tulu folk ritual dance where performers channel local deities through elaborate costumes and chanting.
- [Bambuco](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bambuco), Colombia: A Colombian couple dance in 6/8 or 3/4 time, rooted in the Andes.
- [Balinese dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/balinese-dance), Indonesia: A dynamic and angular dance tradition from the Indonesian island of Bali.
- [Moutya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/montea), Seychelles: A rhythmic Seychellois dance of circles and drums that grew from a stigmatized past to UNESCO recognition.
- [Arkan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/arkan), Ukraine: A Hutsul circle dance where men perform a lasso-like step around a bonfire to mark the transition to manhood.
- [Seguidilla](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/seguidilla), Spain: A quick triple-time Spanish folk dance performed in pairs with lively footwork and castanets.
- [Humppa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/humppa), Finland: A bouncy Finnish social dance played to fast jazz-influenced music with a strong bass beat.
- [Wheelchair dancesport](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/wheelchair-dancesport), Sweden: A competitive ballroom dance where at least one partner uses a wheelchair.
- [Écossaise](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ecossaise), France: A French contradanse in a Scottish style, danced in two lines during the late eighteenth century.
- [Nijemo kolo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nijemo-kolo), Croatia: A silent group circle dance from the Dalmatian hinterland of Croatia.
- [Loure](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/loure), France: A slow French Baroque dance marked by dotted rhythms and pickup notes.
- [Furlana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/furlana), Italy: A fast Italian folk dance from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, popular in Venice and France.
- [Menora](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/menora), Thailand: A traditional Thai dance-drama from the south, featuring acrobatics and ornate costumes.
- [Kolomyika](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kolomyika), Ukraine: A fast Ukrainian folk dance and song form from the Carpathian region.
- [Trepak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/trepak), Russia: A fast East Slavic folk dance featuring high kicks and stomps in a circle.
- [Qaytarma](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/qaytarma), Ukraine: A Crimean Tatar folk dance featuring cyclical motion and distinct gender roles.
- [Piring dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/piring-dance), Indonesia: A Minangkabau plate dance from West Sumatra where dancers balance spinning ceramics on their palms.
- [Estampie](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/estampie): A medieval couple dance in triple meter, known for its stamped feet and repeating melodic sections.
- [Acro dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/acro-dance), United States: A theatrical dance style blending classical technique with acrobatic tricks
- [Maxixe](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maxixe), Brazil: A fast couple dance from Rio de Janeiro that blends African and European steps.
- [Huaconada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/huaconada), Peru: A masked ritual dance performed by men in the Andean village of Mito each January.
- [Compas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/compas), Haiti: A Haitian partner dance to a steady, pulsating rhythm created in the 1950s.
- [Moresca](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/moresca), Spain: A dramatic Renaissance dance depicting combat between Moors and Christians
- [Basse danse](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/basse-danse), France: A slow gliding court dance of the 15th and 16th centuries, danced in pairs without leaving the floor.
- [Tanztheater](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tanztheater), Germany: A German dance-drama tradition blending stage drama with expressive movement
- [Pachanga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pachanga), Cuba: A lively Cuban partner dance with a bouncing knee action and strong downbeat.
- [Luri dances](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/luri-dances), Iran: Folk circle, scarf, and stick dances of the Lurish people of Iran
- [Zambra](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zambra), Spain: A barefoot flamenco dance of the Romani people in Andalusia, Spain.
- [Taskiwin](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/taskiwin), Morocco: A martial dance of Morocco's High Atlas where every man dances with a decorated horn
- [Ballet blanc](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballet-blanc), France: A classical ballet scene of female dancers in white staging supernatural spirits
- [Gaudiya Nritya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gaudiya-nritya), India: A classical dance of Bengal expressing Hindu devotional themes through song and movement.
- [Danza de tijeras](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/danza-de-tijeras), Peru: A ritual challenge dance from the Peruvian Andes where dancers compete with acrobatic steps and clapping scissors.
- [Boogaloo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/boogaloo), United States: A 1960s New York dance style blending Latin rhythms with American soul and jazz.
- [Bergamask](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bergamask), Italy: A rustic Italian folk dance linked with clowns and northern comedy
- [Muiñeira](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/muineira), Spain: A lively Galician circle dance played on bagpipes and drums in 6/8 time.
- [Pasillo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pasillo), Ecuador: A slow Andean waltz performed on guitar and mandolin, celebrated as a national symbol in Ecuador.
- [West Coast Swing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/west-coast-swing), United States: An elastic, improvised American swing partner dance performed along a straight line
- [Bugaku](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bugaku), Japan: A formal Japanese court dance of slow, measured steps, masks and rich robes
- [Topeng dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/topeng-dances), Indonesia: A masked Indonesian dance-drama telling ancient stories through movement and gamelan music
- [Cachucha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cachucha), Spain: A Spanish solo dance in triple time, performed with castanets.
- [Yosakoi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yosakoi), Japan: An energetic group dance from Japan using wooden clappers and modern music.
- [Expressionist dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/expressionist-dance), Germany: An expressive modern dance form rooted in personal emotion, breath, and raw movement
- [Reog](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/reog), Indonesia: A Javanese dance drama featuring a massive lion mask carried by the teeth of a strongman.
- [Ambasse bey](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ambasse-bey), Cameroon: A shoulder-shaking folk dance from Cameroon's Littoral region, danced to guitar and percussion.
- [Linđo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lin-o), Croatia: A circle dance from Dubrovnik guided by a seated musician calling rhyming cues
- [Letkajenkka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/letkajenkka), Finland: A Finnish novelty line dance featuring a distinctive hopping rhythm and left-foot lead.
- [Georgian dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/georgian-dance), Georgia: Martial, romantic, and celebratory folk dances from the regions of Georgia
- [Halling](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/halling), Norway: An athletic and acrobatic solo folk dance from rural Norway
- [Jhumair](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jhumair), India: An eastern Indian harvest dance of linked rows, swaying steps, and drums
- [Dondang Sayang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dondang-sayang), Malaysia: A slow Malay dance drama of love poetry, accompanied by violin and drums.
- [Partner dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/partner-dance), United States: A coordinated dance between two people, guided by lead and follow or side-by-side touch
- [Hudoq](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hudoq), Indonesia: A masked harvest dance of the Dayak people in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
- [Yarkhushta](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yarkhushta), Armenia: An Armenian martial clap dance danced by men in facing rows.
- [Wotagei](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/wotagei), Japan: A cheering dance by Japanese idol fans using glow sticks and synchronized movements.
- [Renaissance dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/renaissance-dance), Italy: Courtly spectacles and social dances of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe
- [Bhagavata Mela](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bhagavata-mela), India: An all-night Vaishnavite temple dance-drama from the Kaveri delta
- [Punjabi folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/folk-dances-of-punjab), India: Folk, social, and martial dances native to the Punjab region of India and Pakistan
- [Hakken](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hakken), Netherlands: A fast Dutch rave dance driven by rapid heel steps to heavy electronic bass beats
- [Russian folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/russian-folk-dance), Russia: A traditional East-Slavic dance form featuring stomping, squatting, and circle formations.
- [Character dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/character-dance), Russia: Stylised European folk traditions adapted for the classical ballet stage
- [Baião](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/baiao-music), Brazil: A syncopated duple-meter dance from Northeastern Brazil, driven by the zabumba drum.
- [Jaipongan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jaipongan), Indonesia: A Sundanese dance from West Java blending martial arts and folk music.
- [Velakali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/velakali), India: A Kerala temple martial dance enacting the clash of the Mahabharata
- [Kanniyar Kali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kanyarkali), India: A multi-night folk ritual dance performed by men in Kerala temples during Vishu.
- [Furiant](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/furiant), Czech Republic: A lively Bohemian couple dance known for its sharp, shifting rhythms and playful pride
- [Kuda Lumping](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kuda-lumping), Indonesia: A Javanese dance where performers ride woven bamboo horses and sometimes enter trances.
- [Wayang wong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/wayang-wong), Indonesia: A Javanese and Balinese dance drama enacting the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics with stylised court movements.
- [Ka Mate](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ka-mate), New Zealand: A Māori haka composed by Te Rauparaha to celebrate survival from enemies.
- [Pas de quatre](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pas-de-quatre-ballet): A classical ballet dance choreographed for four performers
- [Ballet de cour](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballet-de-cour), France: A 16th and 17th century French court dance form blending spectacle, politics, and geometry.
- [Jenkka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jenkka), Finland: A fast Finnish partner dance in two-four or four-four time, danced with runs and pivot turns.
- [Chari dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chari-dance), India: A Rajasthani pot-balancing dance with flaming brass vessels performed by women
- [Rumba flamenca](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rumba-flamenca), Spain: A Spanish dance style born from Cuban rhythms and flamenco guitar.
- [Siva Tau](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/siva-tau), Samoa: A Samoan war chant and dance performed by rugby teams before matches.
- [Tourdion](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tourdion), France: A brisk French court dance of the sixteenth century, danced in pairs to triple meter.
- [Gandrung](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gandrung), Indonesia: A courtship dance from eastern Java where dancers invite audience members to join them.
- [Yayue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yayue), China: Stately ritual court and temple music and dance from ancient China
- [Karma Naach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/karma-naach), India: A tribal circle dance in central and eastern India, performed during the autumn Karma festival.
- [Kumi Odori](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kumi-odori), Japan: A narrative court dance from Okinawa, blending East Asian styles for diplomatic entertainment.
- [Volta](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/volta): A Renaissance couple dance featuring a lifted turn, popular in the late 1500s.
- [Pyrrhichios](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pyrrhichios), Greece: An ancient Greek weapon dance training combat movements to the music of the aulos
- [Table dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/table-dance), United States: Dancing performed on or near tables and bar counters for entertainment or fun.
- [Chholiya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chholiya), India: A Kumaoni sword dance performed by men in a marriage procession to ward off evil spirits.
- [Concert dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/concert-dance), India: Dance created and staged for an audience, often in a theatrical venue
- [Bhavai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bhavai-dance), India: A solo folk dance from Rajasthan where performers balance earthen pots while dancing on swords and glass.
- [Kailao](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kailao), Tonga: A Tongan war dance with clubs, originating from Wallis and Futuna.
- [Queer Tango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/queer-tango), Argentina: Argentine tango danced without fixed gender roles, allowing any partner to lead or follow.
- [Kerala Natanam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kerala-natanam), India: A classical dance style from Kerala that adapts Kathakali movements for solo, group, and dramatic performances.
- [Postmodern dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/postmodern-dance), United States: A 20th century concert dance movement that rejects technique in favor of everyday movement and chance.
- [Chapelloise](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chapelloise), France: A lively European circle mixer dance where partners change after each phrase
- [Arya Poonkani Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/arya-poonkani), India: A Kerala ritual dance honoring a female deity with intricate face art and wooden footwear.
- [Kolbastı](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kolbast), Turkey: A high-energy Turkish dance born in Giresun with a name linked to police raids.
- [Yablochko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yablochko), Russia: A sailor's folk dance and song from Russia, shaped by British hornpipe steps.
- [Sârbă](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sarba), Romania: A fast Romanian folk dance in triple time, danced in circles or lines.
- [Pop Goes the Weasel](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pop-goes-the-weasel), United Kingdom: A lively 19th-century English country dance and social singing game
- [Vimbuza](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/vimbuza), Malawi: A healing dance of spirit possession performed by the Tumbuka people to restore balance and cure illness.
- [Hiragasy](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hiragasy), Madagascar: A day-long show of song, dance and poetic speech by Merina troupes, often a contest
- [Romani dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/romani-dance), India: The diverse dance traditions of the Romani diaspora across Europe and beyond
- [Cirebonese mask dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cirebonese-mask-dance), Indonesia: A Javanese masked performance from West Java that uses distinct characters to show human traits.
- [Cibi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cibi), Fiji: A Fijian war dance and victory chant used by rugby teams
- [Robot](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/robot), Australia: A street dance style that mimics mechanical movements with abrupt stops.
- [Zapateado](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zapateado-spain), Spain: A Spanish foot-tapping dance in six-eight time, known for its rhythmic precision.
- [Passamezzo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/passamezzo), Italy: A Renaissance Italian dance built around repeating harmonic progressions
- [Randai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/randai), Indonesia: A Minangkabau dance-drama blending silat martial arts with song and storytelling in a circle.
- [Hojagiri](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hojagiri), India: A balancing folk dance by Tripura women, moving only the lower body while holding props.
- [Gambuh](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gambuh), Indonesia: An ancient Balinese dance-drama performed with a unique gamelan ensemble and Kawi dialogue.
- [Finnish tango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/finnish-tango), Finland: A slow partner dance from Finland, danced in close hold with a distinctive rhythmic pulse.
- [Uzundara](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/uzundara), Armenia: A gentle South Caucasus women's folk dance known for smooth gliding steps
- [Kachchhi Ghodi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kachchhi-ghodi-dance), India: A Rajasthani mock-fight folk dance performed inside decorative dummy horses
- [Kikkli](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kikkli), India: A whirling Punjabi folk dance and game performed in pairs by girls and women
- [Perini Shivatandavam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/perini-sivatandavam), India: An ancient warrior dance of Telangana dedicated to Shiva, danced to pulsing drums
- [Bulgarian folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bulgarian-folk-dance), Bulgaria: Lively chain and circle dances known for uneven meters and varied handholds.
- [Shalakho](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/shalakho), Armenia: A fast Caucasian folk dance often performed as a playful competition between men
- [Kandyan dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kandyan-dance), Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's sacred hill-country dance of ritual drumming and ornate crowns
- [Apache](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/apache), France: A theatrical French partner dance portraying a dramatic quarrel with mock violence
- [Zeybek](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zeybek), Turkey: A Turkish folk dance of dignity and heroism from the Aegean region.
- [Reggada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/reggada), Morocco: A Amazigh war dance from northeastern Morocco using rifles and drums.
- [Ojapali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ojapali), India: An Assamese storytelling dance with singing, rhythmic steps, and small cymbals.
- [Padayani](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/padayani), India: A masked ritual dance of central Kerala honoring the goddess Bhadrakali
- [Bappiriyan Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bappiriyan-theyyam), India: A coconut-climbing ritual dance from North Malabar that blends Hindu and Muslim myth.
- [Salegy](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/salegy), Madagascar: A fast, energetic Malagasy dance driven by syncopated polyrhythms and guitar
- [Ghumura](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ghumura-dance), India: A male drum dance from western Odisha danced with an earthen pitcher
- [Jhijhiya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jhijhiya), India: A devotional folk dance with perforated, lit clay pots balanced on the head
- [Aati kalenja](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/aati-kalenja), India: A monsoon healing dance from Tulu Nadu to ward off misfortune and disease
- [Domkach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/domkach), India: A semi-circle wedding dance with satirical songs, danced by families.
- [Choreia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/choreia), Greece: An ancient Greek circle dance performed with singing
- [Biyelgee](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/biyelgee), Mongolia: A seated Mongolian folk dance conveying pastoral life through chest and arm gestures
- [Thirayattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/thirayattam), India: An annual ritual dance from Kerala's sacred groves, blending martial arts and trance
- [Payung dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/payung-dance), Indonesia: A Minangkabau partner dance portraying love and protection with an umbrella and shawl
- [Perkhuli](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/perkhuli), Georgia: A Georgian round dance of stacked circles and alternating tempos
- [Jerkin'](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jerkin), United States: A fast-moving California street dance known for leg twitches and bright skinny jeans
- [Chozhikali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chozhikali), India: A Kerala folk dance in two styles, using masks of dried leaves and umbrellas to enact mythic tales.
- [Xibelani dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/xibelani-dance), South Africa: A Tsonga hip-shaking dance performed in voluminous, layered skirts
- [Tamzara](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tamzara), Armenia: A lively circle and line folk dance set to an asymmetrical nine-beat meter
- [Mujra](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mujra), India: A South Asian courtesan dance tradition combining Kathak movement with sung poetry
- [Tangos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tango-flamenco), Spain: A lively four-beat Andalusian flamenco dance known for playful expression
- [Huapango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/huapango), Mexico: A Mexican couple dance on a wooden platform, accompanied by violins and strummed guitars.
- [Srimpi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/srimpi), Indonesia: A graceful classical court dance of Central Java performed by matched female dancers
- [Lengger](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lengger), Indonesia: A sacred partner dance from Central Java performed by a masked man and a woman
- [Condong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/condong), Indonesia: A crisp Balinese court dance depicting a royal maidservant
- [Teškoto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/teskoto), North Macedonia: A Macedonian oro line dance expressing hardship through slow precision and fast leaps.
- [American Tribal Style Belly Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/american-tribal-style-belly-dance), United States: A group belly dance built on shared cues and spontaneous movement
- [Coladeira](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/coladeira), Cape Verde: A Cape Verdean ballroom dance in pairs, performed to a lively two-beat song.
- [Batuque](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/batuque-cape-verde), Cape Verde: A Cape Verdean circle dance performed by women with polyrhythmic clapping and singing.
- [Lilin dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lilin-dance), Indonesia: A Minangkabau group dance where performers balance lit candles on plates held in their palms.
- [One-Step](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/one-step): An early twentieth-century ballroom partner dance developed from the Turkey Trot
- [Ho Jamalo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ho-jamalo), Pakistan: A celebratory Sindhi folk song and dance honouring a local hero
- [Intore](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/intore), Rwanda: A men-only traditional dance from Rwanda and Burundi that honors heroes through drumming and movement.
- [Margamkali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/margamkali), India: A round dance of the Knanaya Christians in Kerala that retells the life of Saint Thomas through song and martial play.
- [Beguine](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/beguine): A slow Caribbean partner dance with rolling hips, blending French and Latin traditions
- [Dodola](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/paparuda), Bulgaria: A rainmaking procession in Southeast Europe where children dance through villages to call for summer showers.
- [Chang dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chang-dance), India: A festive men's folk dance from Rajasthan celebrated with frame drums during Holi
- [Jazz-funk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jazz-funk-dance): A commercial fusion of classical jazz technique and hip-hop aesthetics
- [Grinding](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/grinding), United States: An intimate partner dance where dancers rub and bump their bodies together
- [Tsifteteli](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tsifteteli), Turkey: An Anatolian and Balkan belly dance with a distinctive double-stringed rhythm
- [Sōran Bushi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/soran-bushi), Japan: A Japanese fishermen's folk dance depicting the hauling of nets and ocean waves
- [Kebyar Duduk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kebyar-duduk), Indonesia: An expressive Balinese solo performed in low, seated squats with a handheld fan
- [Dasakathia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dasakathia), India: A lively Odia ballad duet performed with rhythmic wooden clappers
- [Redowa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/redowa), Czech Republic: A Czech waltz variant with turns and leaps popular in nineteenth-century ballrooms.
- [Les Lanciers](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/les-lanciers), United Kingdom: A four-couple square dance of five figures, famously preserved in Denmark
- [Kartik Naach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kartik-naach), Nepal: A sacred Newar dance-drama celebrating Vishnu in Patan Durbar Square
- [Caci](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/caci-fighting), Indonesia: A ceremonial whip and shield duel from Flores honoring ancestors and harvests
- [Brazilian Zouk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/brazilian-zouk), Brazil: A flowing Brazilian partner dance shaped by off-axis turns and rich improvisation
- [Pas de trois](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pas-de-trois), Russia: A classical ballet suite arranged for three performers across five distinct parts
- [Kuttichathan Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kuttichathan-theyyam), India: A sacred ritual dance of North Malabar honoring the folk guardian deity Kuttichathan
- [Oppana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/oppana), India: A celebratory seated-circle dance and song from the Muslim community of Kerala
- [Sanghyang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sanghyang), Indonesia: A sacred Balinese ritual where dancers enter trance to channel spiritual entities.
- [Danda Naata](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/danda-nata), India: A ritual stick dance in Odisha where men undergo penance to worship Shiva.
- [Assamese folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/folk-dances-of-assam), India: The seasonal and community dance traditions of Assam in northeast India
- [Thidambu Nritham](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/thidambu-nritham), India: A Hindu ritual dance in North Malabar where a male dancer carries a deity replica on his head.
- [Tippani Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tippani), India: A women's folk dance from Gujarat using long wooden sticks to beat the ground.
- [Simd](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/simd), Georgia: An Ossetian folk group dance of disciplined lines and soft motion
- [Poco-poco](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/poco-poco), Indonesia: An Indonesian line dance performed at family parties, weddings and group exercises
- [Cordax](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cordax): An obscene comic mask dance from ancient Greece and Rome
- [Chinese square dancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/square-dancing-china), China: A communal exercise dance done by groups in city squares and parks across China
- [Cendrawasih dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cendrawasih-dance), Indonesia: A Balinese duet depicting the mating ritual of the bird of paradise.
- [Royal Ballet of Cambodia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/royal-ballet-of-cambodia), Cambodia: A classical Cambodian court dance featuring nuanced hand gestures and sacred legends.
- [Bedara Vesha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bedara-vesha), India: A night-long folk dance in Sirsi featuring masked performers with swords and peacock feathers.
- [Poomaruthan Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/poomaruthan-theyyam), India: A ritual dance from North Malabar featuring a wooden crown and sword.
- [Betawi mask dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/betawi-mask-dance), Indonesia: A theatrical Indonesian dance-drama blending masked movement, comedy, and music
- [Gambyong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gambyong), Indonesia: A graceful Javanese welcoming dance rooted in ancient rice fertility rites
- [Sandungueo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sandungueo), Puerto Rico: A partner or solo reggaeton dance defined by circular hip grinds and pelvic thrusts
- [Boston](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/boston), United States: A slow American waltz variation with weight held on one foot across beats
- [Siguiriyas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/siguiriyas), Spain: A solemn flamenco dance form with a complex twelve-beat rhythm and tragic themes.
- [Slow dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/slow-dance): An easy partner dance where a couple sways gently to slow ballads
- [Kolkali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kolkali), India: A circle stick dance from Kerala, India, performed with rhythmic strikes and steps.
- [Sama](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/semah), Turkey: A Sufi ritual of listening, prayer, and whirling dance in Turkey, Egypt, and Iran.
- [Medieval dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/medieval-dance), France: Group circle dances and couple steps from European medieval sources.
- [Free dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/free-dance): A 20th-century movement style that rejected ballet rules in favor of natural expression.
- [Bagha Nacha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bagha-nacha), India: A tiger-painted male dance from Odisha performed for the goddess Budhi Thakurani.
- [Shota](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/shota), Albania: A synchronized Albanian folk dance from northern Albania and Kosovo, known for its strong rhythm.
- [Theeyaattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/theeyaattam), India: A ritual temple dance of Kerala depicting divine battles and births through floor art and trance.
- [Dhalo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dhalo), India: A women's ritual folk dance from Goa and the Konkan region, performed in winter for household protection.
- [Canary dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/canary-dance), Spain: An energetic Renaissance courtship dance known for lively jumps and rapid heel stamping
- [Champeta](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/champeta), Colombia: A rhythmic dance and music style from Colombia's Caribbean coast, born in the early 1980s.
- [Jurit Ampil Kridha Warastra](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jurit-ampil-kridha-warastra), Indonesia: A Javanese warrior dance portraying the armed female soldiers of Mangkunegara I
- [Firkal](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/firkal), India: A martial folk dance of the Bhumij people, performed with swords and bows.
- [Tambourin](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tambourin), France: A Provençal folk dance driven by the steady beat of a pipe and tabor ensemble.
- [Deodhani dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/deodhani-dance), India: An Assamese shamanic ritual dance honoring the snake goddess with sword and shield
- [Janger](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/janger-dance), Indonesia: A flirtatious Balinese youth dance-drama performed by seated lines of men and women
- [Singo Ulung](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/singo-ulung), Indonesia: A lion dance from Bondowoso performed for village rituals and civic celebrations
- [Xote](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/xote), Brazil: A Brazilian partner dance derived from the German schottische, central to forró culture.
- [Malavazhiyattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/malavazhiyattam), India: An all-night ritual dance-drama honoring the goddess Malavazhi in Kerala
- [Schäfflertanz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/schafflertanz), Germany: A Bavarian guild dance performed by coopers in traditional attire every seven years.
- [Duffmuttu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/duffmuttu), India: A rhythmic group drum dance and song tradition from the Malabar region
- [Hayachine Kagura](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hayachine-kagura), Japan: A sacred twelve-part masked dance cycle honouring the mountain deity of Mount Hayachine
- [Garrotín](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/garrotin), Spain: A festive flamenco palo from Asturias with improvised verses and a steady two-beat rhythm.
- [Alamikkali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/alamikkali), India: A shared Muharram ritual dance of house visits and fire rolling in south India
- [Collegiate shag](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/collegiate-shag), United States: An energetic American swing partner dance danced to fast-tempo jazz.
- [Loyalty dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/loyalty-dance), China: A mass political dance of devotion to Chairman Mao during the Cultural Revolution
- [Chaiti Ghoda Nacha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chaiti-ghoda), India: A Odia folk dance-drama using a dummy horse to tell stories of the Ramayana and goddess worship.
- [Kushtdepdi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kushtdepdi), Turkmenistan: A Turkmen circle dance and poetic chant celebrating goodwill, family, and nature
- [Khattak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khattak-dance), Pakistan: A rapid Pashtun warrior dance performed in circles with swords and spins
- [Trojak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/trojak), Poland: A Silesian folk dance performed by groups of one man and two women
- [Israeli folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/israeli-folk-dance), Israel: Choreographed circle and line dances performed to Hebrew songs in Israel.
- [Cakalele](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cakalele-dance), Indonesia: A male warrior performance from the Maluku Islands featuring mock combat with spears and shields.
- [Serpentine dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/serpentine-dance), France: A stage dance using long silk skirts and colored lights to mimic nature.
- [Gending Sriwijaya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gending-sriwijaya), Indonesia: A Palembang welcoming dance presenting ceremonial betel offerings to honored guests
- [Paydushko horo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/paydushko-horo), Bulgaria: A Balkan line dance with a distinctive limping rhythm and five-beat meter.
- [Kangeelu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kangilu), India: A coconut-leaf dance in a circle, performed to invoke spirits and protect the village.
- [Bacchu-ber](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bacchu-ber), France: A traditional French sword dance performed by nine men in white on Saint Roch's day
- [Larakaraka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/larakaraka), Uganda: An Acholi courtship dance of jumps and spins performed at weddings in Uganda.
- [Saya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/saya-art-form), Bolivia: A music and dance form of the Afro-Bolivian people in the Yungas region of Bolivia.
- [Jangi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jangi), Azerbaijan: A heroic military dance of Azerbaijan performed by men in traditional dress.
- [Greek dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/greek-dances), Greece: A collection of regional folk dances from Greece, danced in lines and circles for community gatherings.
- [Onapottan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/onapottan), India: A silent ritual performance visiting Kerala homes during the festival of Onam
- [Khamba Thoibi Jagoi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khamba-thoibi-jagoi), India: A Meitei danced drama celebrating the legendary love of Khamba and Princess Thoibi.
- [Ulek mayang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ulek-mayang), Malaysia: A Terengganu healing dance where a shaman faces seven sea princesses
- [Maruni](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maruni), Nepal: A Nepali folk dance of the Magar people, danced to nine-instrument orchestra music
- [Formation dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/formation-dance), United Kingdom: Synchronized ballroom and Latin team routines danced by groups of couples
- [Khaleegy](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khaleegy), Saudi Arabia: A delicate folk dance of eastern Arabia featuring flowing robes and rhythmic hair sways
- [Basque folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/basque-dance), Spain: A collection of roughly four hundred folk dances from the Basque Country, featuring sticks, swords, and communal circles
- [Tribal Fusion Belly Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tribal-fusion), United States: A Western stage dance fusing American Tribal Style with popping and world dances
- [Lundu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lundu), Brazil: An Afro-Brazilian couple dance with flirtatious roots and African rhythms
- [Peruvian waltz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/peruvian-waltz), Peru: A triple-meter dance from Peru blending European steps with Afro-Peruvian rhythm.
- [Zapateado](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zapateado-mexico), Mexico: A Mexican folk dance defined by rhythmic footwork that strikes the floor like tap.
- [Skanking](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/skank), Jamaica: An energetic street dance born in Jamaican dance halls and shared across subcultures
- [Legényes](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/legenyes), Romania: A solo men's dance of Transylvania, performed freestyle in front of a band while women sing.
- [Kuthiyottam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kuthiyottam), India: A ritual dance by young boys in Kerala temples dedicated to Bhadrakali or Durga.
- [Dhimsa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dhimsa), India: A tribal chain dance in circular formations from the Koraput region of Odisha
- [Vira](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/vira), Portugal: A fast three-step couple dance from Portugal, danced face-to-face or in rotating circles.
- [Parayan Thullal](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/parayan-thullal), India: A slow, serpent-costumed dance and poetic performance from Kerala
- [Dappankuthu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dappankuthu), India: An energetic, informal Tamil folk dance driven by rapid layered drum rhythms
- [Calabrian tarantella](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/calabrian-tarantella), Italy: A couple dance in a moving circle, performed across the Calabrian peninsula.
- [Toyi-toyi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/toyi-toyi), South Africa: A stomping protest dance from Southern Africa used in political demonstrations
- [Koothu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/koothu), India: A Tamil street theater form using dance and music to tell epic stories.
- [Raqs Baladi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/baladi), Egypt: A grounded Egyptian folk dance focused on hip movements and improvisation.
- [Waka waka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/waka-waka), Bolivia: A Bolivian urban dance with layered skirts and bull bells, rooted in the La Paz department.
- [Sangini](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sangini), Nepal: A ritual folk dance by married Nepali women holding lamps or pots during Tihar and Teej festivals.
- [Klompendansen](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/klompendansen), Netherlands: A Dutch folk dance where dancers tap rhythms on the floor while wearing specially made wooden clogs.
- [Apatampa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/apatampa), Ghana: A Fanti folk dance from Ghana that mimics a legendary encounter with a giant.
- [Gato](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gato-artform), Argentina: A lively Argentine folk dance with a cat-like rhythm and humorous lyrics.
- [Taepyeongmu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/taepyeongmu), South Korea: A traditional Korean dance performed to wish for national peace.
- [Sogdian Whirl dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sogdian-whirl-dance), China: A spinning court dance from Sogdia that became popular in Tang China
- [Muchilot Bhagavathi Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/muchilot-bhagavathi), India: A gentle Theyyam ritual dance honouring the guardian goddess of North Malabar
- [Byzantine dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/byzantine-dance), Greece: A collection of dances from the Eastern Roman Empire, blending religious ritual and court ceremony.
- [Bacha Nagma](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bacha-nagma), India: A Kashmiri folk dance where boys dress as women and spin to rabab music.
- [Polka-mazurka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/polka-mazurka): A 19th-century Viennese dance blending polka steps with mazurka rhythm.
- [East Coast Swing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/east-coast-swing), United States: A six-count partner dance taught in studios and danced to fast swing music.
- [Mapouka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mapouka), Tanzania: A hip-shaking dance from Côte d'Ivoire where dancers face away from the audience while bent over.
- [Panyembrama](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/panyembrama), Indonesia: A Balinese welcoming dance performed by young women carrying floral offerings
- [Kadangot Makkam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kadangot-makkam), India: A sacred Theyyam dance honoring an innocent mother and her children in Kerala
- [Bhairab Naach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bhairab-naach), Nepal: A sacred Newar masked dance of twelve deities in Nepal's Pokhara Valley
- [Gaarudi Gombe](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gaarudi-gombe), India: A Karnataka folk dance featuring performers carrying giant bamboo doll-suits.
- [Alkayida](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/alkayida), Ghana: A relaxed Ghanaian social dance with side-to-side swaying and footwork, popularized by hip-life music.
- [Borborbor](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/borborbor), Ghana: A social dance of the Ewe people, marked by handkerchiefs and communal celebration.
- [Juba dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/juba-dance), United States: An African-American step dance using body percussion to keep time and preserve culture.
- [Egg dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/egg-dance), United Kingdom: A traditional agility dance weaving between scattered eggs without breaking them
- [Poikkaal Kuthirai Aattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/poikkaal-kuthirai-aattam), India: A Tamil folk dance where performers wear a hollow horse costume and mimic riding.
- [Capoeira Angola](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/capoeira-angola), Brazil: A slow, grounded Afro-Brazilian martial art played in a circle with berimbau music.
- [Khanchobany](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khanchobany), Azerbaijan: A fast-paced Azerbaijani men's folk dance from the Shirvan region
- [Thirra](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/thirra), India: A ritual possession dance performed in temple groves across Malabar
- [Bigwala](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bigwala), Uganda: A ceremonial trumpet dance of the Busoga Kingdom in Uganda, featuring gourd instruments and processional movement.
- [Chennu Nalike](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chennu-nalike), India: A nightly post-harvest folk dance and home-visiting ritual of Tulu Nadu
- [Mirzayi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mirzayi), Armenia: A folk dance shared by Armenians and Azerbaijanis, performed at weddings and in classic films.
- [Ekitaguriro](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ekitaguriro), Uganda: A Ugandan folk dance celebrating cattle and community milestones.
- [Electric boogaloo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/electric-boogaloo), United States: A funk street dance from Oakland using fluid leg rolls and sharp body hits.
- [Tarakama](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tarakama), Azerbaijan: A rhythmic folk dance played with a zurna for weddings and holidays.
- [Capoeira Regional](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/capoeira-regional), Brazil: A structured Afro-Brazilian martial art and dance tradition created by Mestre Bimba in the 1930s.
- [Bugg](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bugg), Sweden: A Swedish partner swing dance danced to dansband music in four-four time.
- [Errenzhuan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/errenzhuan), China: A Northeastern Chinese folk dance and musical theater performed by a male-female duo with handkerchiefs.
- [Malapulayattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/malapulayattam), India: A tribal circle dance from Kerala performed without singing to honor deities and mark life events.
- [Deknni](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/deknni), India: A graceful Goan dance blending Indian classical steps with Western music and oil lamps.
- [Ballu tundu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballu-tundu), Italy: A Sardinian circle dance with leaps and singing.
- [Volkspele](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/volkspele), South Africa: A South African group dance built on Swedish steps, community singing, and pioneer-style uniforms.
- [Sokkie](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sokkie), South Africa: A partner dance of Southern Africa, blending ballroom steps with local social styles.
- [Ronggeng](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ronggeng), Indonesia: A traditional Javanese couple dance featuring poetic exchanges and live music
- [Hully Gully](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hully-gully), United States: A fast-paced line dance from the 1960s where dancers follow shouted instructions.
- [Dagbon music and dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dagbon-music-and-dance), Ghana: A drumming and dancing tradition of the Dagbamba people in northern Ghana.
- [Tondero](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tondero), Peru: A Peruvian coastal dance and guitar rhythm inspired by birds, cockfights, and courtship.
- [Paraguayan bottle dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/paraguayan-bottle-dance), Paraguay: A folk dance from Paraguay where performers balance glass bottles on their heads while dancing.
- [Atsiapat](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/atsiapat), Greece: A Pontic Greek male dance of short steps and stretching movements.
- [Madison](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/madison), United States: A 1950s line dance with a back-and-forth pattern and called steps
- [Pasambahan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pasambahan-dance), Indonesia: A traditional Minangkabau welcoming dance performed to honor guests and elders
- [Kolomyika](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hutsulka), Ukraine: A fast Ukrainian folk dance and song form from the Carpathians, known for its humorous verses.
- [Nguni stick-fighting](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nguni-stick-fighting), South Africa: A traditional South African martial art where teenage herdboys duel with sticks to prove their strength.
- [Mardani Jhumar](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mardani-jhumar), India: A men's circle dance of eastern India, danced after harvest with sword and shield.
- [Gulikan Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gulikan-theyyam), India: A ritual folk dance of North Kerala honouring the deity Gulikan
- [Tufo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tufo), Mozambique: A women's dance from northern Mozambique performed to drums and song
- [Pukllay](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pukllay), Bolivia: A Bolivian ceremonial dance linked to carnival and a historic battle victory
- [Oleg](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/oleg-dance), Indonesia: A Balinese duet depicting the courtship of bees in a garden.
- [Nangiar Koothu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nangiar-koothu), India: A solo Sanskrit dance-drama of Kerala presented by female performers
- [Deverattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/deverattam), India: A martial folk dance of Tamil Nadu, once danced after victory in battle
- [Andhra Natyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/andhra-natyam), India: A solo temple dance from Andhra Pradesh performed by women in three classical styles.
- [Modern Jive](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/modern-jive), United Kingdom: A simplified partner dance from the UK that adapts swing and salsa moves to a flexible beat.
- [Odzemek](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/odzemek), Slovakia: A fast Slovak solo dance for men, known for its improvised footwork and stick fighting.
- [Rodat](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rodat), Indonesia: A Malay and Acehnese folk dance blending religious chants with rhythmic drumming
- [M'alayah](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/m-alayah), Oman: An Arab wedding dance from Oman and the UAE, driven by quick shakes of the hips
- [Sheethankan Thullal](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sheethankan-thullal), India: A slow Kerala dance form emphasizing gestures, performed at night with coconut leaf costumes.
- [Rebita](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rebita), Angola: A circle dance from Angola where couples link bellies in a rhythmic sway.
- [Kancet Papatai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kancet-papatai), Indonesia: A Dayak Kenyah war dance depicting a hero's victory and the awarding of the title Ajai.
- [Bunny hug](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bunny-hug), United States: A lively ragtime animal dance popular among young Americans in the early 1900s
- [Puliyattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/puliyattam), India: An Indian folk dance portraying the movements of predatory tigers.
- [Nritya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nritya), India: A Sanskrit term for dance covering pure rhythm, expressive storytelling, and theatrical play in Indian traditions.
- [Dhemsa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dhemsa), India: A tribal group dance from central and eastern India danced late into the night
- [Pandanggo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pandanggo), Philippines: A lively Philippine folk dance with Spanish roots, often performed with castanets or balancing lights.
- [Bukcheong sajanoreum](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bukcheong-sajanoreum), South Korea: A Korean lion mask dance performed at the lunar New Year to expel evil spirits
- [Sigalegale](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sigalegale), Indonesia: A Batak ritual where an articulated wooden puppet dances for the childless dead
- [Vishnumoorthy Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/vishnumoorthy-theyyam), India: A sacred ritual dance of northern Kerala and Karnataka honouring Lord Vishnu
- [Tsyganochka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tsyganochka), Russia: A Russian folk dance in four-four time, performed to Roma-style music.
- [Bhume Naach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bhume-naach), Nepal: A circular nature-worshipping dance of the Kham Magar communities in western Nepal
- [Hokey Cokey](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hokey-cokey), United Kingdom: A circle participation dance where dancers insert limbs and shake them to a novelty tune.
- [Grand pas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/grand-pas): A multi-part classical ballet suite created to display virtuoso technique
- [Odisha folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/folk-dance-forms-of-odisha), India: Diverse regional, tribal, and martial folk dance traditions from the state of Odisha
- [Ndombolo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ndombolo), Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Congolese social dance of rapid hip rotations and animated gestures
- [Siddavesa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/siddavesa), India: An all-night folk dance-drama performed by the Arebhahse people of Sullia during harvest season.
- [Country–western dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/country-western-dance), United States: Informal American social, line, and partner dances done to country music.
- [Strathspey](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/strathspey), United Kingdom: A Scottish country dance in four-four time with distinctive dotted rhythms.
- [Gainjeonmokdan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gainjeonmokdan), South Korea: A Korean court dance where women pluck peonies from a central vase in calm movement.
- [Monferrina](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/monferrina), Italy: A lively Northern Italian couple dance featuring promenades, knee bends, and playful mime
- [Geommu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/geommu), South Korea: A Korean sword dance performed by women in traditional dress with replica blades and drums.
- [Maach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maach), India: A sung folk drama from Madhya Pradesh performed on a raised stage with music and dance.
- [Bohuwa dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bohuwa-dance), India: A traditional ceremony of the Sonowal Kacharis in Assam, performed to honor Lord Shiva.
- [Lavanda Naach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lavanda-naach), India: A Bhojpuri folk dance where men dress as women to lead wedding processions and perform satirical theatre.
- [Jarana Yucateca](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jarana-yucateca), Mexico: A paired folk dance of the Yucatán Peninsula, featuring traditional dress and balanced bottles on heads.
- [Rapper sword](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rapper-sword), United Kingdom: A fast-moving English coalfield dance linked by flexible two-handled steel swords
- [Tientos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tientos-flamenco), Spain: A slow Andalusian flamenco palo with a four-beat rhythm and sentimental lyrics.
- [Assyrian folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/assyrian-folk-dance), Iraq: Circle and line dances performed by Assyrians at weddings and community gatherings across the Middle East and diaspora.
- [Ramayana ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ramayana-ballet), Indonesia: A stylized dance drama retelling the Ramayana epic through music and movement.
- [Metelitsa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/metelitsa), Belarus: A spinning East-Slavic folk dance that mimics the whirl of a snowstorm.
- [Bakisimba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bakisimba), Uganda: A vigorous circle dance of the Baganda people in Uganda, featuring energetic footwork and drum accompaniment.
- [Slip jig](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/slip-jig), Ireland: A graceful Irish stepdance in 9/8 time, known for its sliding footwork.
- [Dalkhai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dalkhai), India: A folk dance of Western Odisha tribes performed during Hindu festivals and epics.
- [Abayi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/abayi), Azerbaijan: A slow Azerbaijani folk dance performed by middle-aged people in the Shaki and Zaqatala regions.
- [Irish set dancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/set-dancing), Ireland: A square formation folk dance in Ireland, danced by four couples to traditional tunes without a caller.
- [Pentozali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pentozali), Greece: A vigorous Cretan war dance with high leaps and improvised acrobatics
- [Dhaanto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dhaanto), Somalia: A Somali folk dance once ridden on horseback to boost troop morale
- [Vallja e Tropojës](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/vallja-e-tropojes), Albania: A circle-and-line folk dance from northern Albania, on UNESCO's heritage list since 2024
- [Maya dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maya-dance), Guatemala: A ceremonial tradition of the Maya people that blends movement, trance, and animal transformation.
- [Dumhal](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dumhal), India: A men's ritual dance of the Wattal tribe in Jammu and Kashmir.
- [Poorakkali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/poorakkali), India: An athletic ritual dance of North Malabar celebrating the god of love
- [Lasya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lasya), India: A graceful Indian dance form attributed to the goddess Parvati.
- [Tanggai dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tanggai-dance), Indonesia: A Palembang welcome dance performed with long fingernails and a small box
- [Clog dancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/clog-dancing), United Kingdom: A step dance using wooden-soled footwear to create rhythmic sounds with the feet.
- [Running Man](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/running-man), United States: A hip-hop party dance imitating a runner jogging in place with sliding footwork
- [Fusku](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fusku), Finland: A lively Finnish rock and swing partner dance with foxtrot rhythm and rock steps
- [Dances of Tripura](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dances-of-tripura), India: A collection of folk dances from the northeastern Indian state of Tripura.
- [Tamborito](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tamborito), Panama: A Panamanian couple's dance performed in a circle with drums and clapping.
- [Chaap](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chaap), Pakistan: A clapping folk dance of the Baloch people performed in circles to traditional instruments.
- [Bélé](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bele), Dominica: A Creole folk dance and drum tradition of the Caribbean islands.
- [Sisingaan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sisingaan), Indonesia: A Sundanese lion palanquin dance celebrating a boy's rite of passage
- [Mazur](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mazur), Poland: A lively Polish partner dance from Mazovia with accents on the second or third beat.
- [Breton dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/breton-dance), France: A circle and line dance tradition from the Celtic region of Brittany in France.
- [Magunatip](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/magunatip), Malaysia: A dynamic Murut bamboo dance of quick footwork between clapping poles
- [Varsovienne](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/varsovienne), France: A nineteenth-century ballroom sequence dance defined by its signature pause step
- [Belarusian folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/belarusian-folk-dance), Belarus: A lively group dance tradition from Belarus with circle formations and theatrical roots.
- [Bygdedans](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bygdedans), Norway: Traditional Norwegian folk dances preserved in rural farming communities.
- [Tambor de Crioula](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tambor-de-crioula), Brazil: A drum-driven circle dance from Maranhão honoring St. Benedict
- [Tello](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tello), Azerbaijan: A shoulder-shaking circle dance performed across Azerbaijan by men and women.
- [Malay gamelan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/malay-gamelan), Malaysia: A court dance and music tradition from the royal houses of Malaysia.
- [Baksa Kembang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/baksa-kembang), Indonesia: A Banjar welcoming dance performed by women with flowers and scarves in South Kalimantan
- [Joged](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/joged-dance), Indonesia: An interactive Balinese social dance of flirtation, accompanied by bamboo gamelan
- [Orteke](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/orteke), Kazakhstan: A dombra player with a wooden goat puppet that dances on a drum to the music's beat.
- [Ceili dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ceili-dance), Ireland: A social gathering in Gaelic tradition featuring group and couple folk dances to live music.
- [Bambangan Cakil](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bambangan-cakil), Indonesia: A Javanese dance-drama staging the duel between a gentle knight and a wild ogre
- [Bangsawan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bangsawan), Malaysia: A traditional Malay musical theatre that blends drama, song, and stage dance
- [Byeongsin chum](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/byeongsin-chum), South Korea: A satirical Korean folk dance mocking nobility through disability caricatures
- [Ramanattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ramanattam), India: A seventeenth-century temple dance-drama from Kerala enacting the Ramayana
- [Step dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/step-dance), Ireland: A family of percussive dances where intricate footwork creates the primary rhythm.
- [Bamboula](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bamboula), Haiti: A drum and dance tradition from West Africa that spread through Haiti to the United States.
- [Tamena Ibuga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tamena-ibuga), Uganda: A traditional folk dance of the Basoga people in Uganda, celebrating harvest and unity.
- [Bachatango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bachatango): A partner dance blending Dominican bachata steps with Argentine tango techniques.
- [Mugo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mugo), South Korea: A Korean court dance where performers strike a central drum while wearing color-coded jackets.
- [Niiko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/niiko), Somalia: A sensual dance of the Somali Bantu community in Somalia.
- [Mek Mulung](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mek-mulung), Malaysia: A male-only Malay theatre form from Kedah combining dance, song and percussion.
- [Raibenshe](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/raibenshe), India: A Bengali martial dance of energetic acrobatics and long bamboo poles
- [Samri](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/samri), Saudi Arabia: A traditional music and dance from Najd with poetry, drums, and swaying
- [Competitive dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/competitive-dance), United States: A performance sport where studio dancers present judged routines in diverse genres
- [Rieldans](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rieldans), South Africa: A fast South African folk dance with intricate footwork and animal imitations
- [Kolata](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kolata), India: A Karnataka folk dance using coloured sticks and scarves in plait formations.
- [Albanian war dances](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/albanian-war-dances), Albania: Traditional Albanian martial dances performed in circles or as mock sword fights.
- [Karsilamas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/karsilamas), Turkey: A couple's folk dance in 9/8 time, danced face-to-face across Turkey and Greece.
- [Tertali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/teratali), India: A ritual folk dance of seated women striking cymbals tied across their bodies
- [Indang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/indang-dance), Indonesia: A Minangkabau Islamic dance from West Sumatra performed to religious songs
- [Berd](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/berd), Armenia: A two-storey human wall dance from Armenia, performed to zurna and dhol.
- [Ceroc](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ceroc), United Kingdom: A partner dance taught in large groups with frequent partner rotation and structured routines.
- [Quebradita](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/quebradita), Mexico: A Mexican partner dance featuring a dramatic backward dip.
- [Chakacha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chakacha), Kenya: A women-only wedding dance of the Swahili coast, featuring hip-swaying movements and light clothing.
- [Round dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/round-dance), Australia: A choreographed ballroom dance where dancers follow verbal cues in a circle.
- [Sourashtra folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/folk-dances-of-sourashtra), India: A collection of traditional dances from the Sourashtra community in South India.
- [Lesnoto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lesnoto), North Macedonia: A Balkan line dance in seven-beat rhythm, moving three steps right and one left.
- [Moribayassa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/moribayassa), Guinea: A Malinke women's dance of purification and rebirth through intense drumming and shaking.
- [Rebolation](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rebolation), Brazil: A Brazilian rave dance with sliding footwork and loose arm movements.
- [Dihosana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dihosana), Botswana: A rain-making trance dance of the Kalanga people in Botswana
- [Kromanti dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kromanti-dance), Jamaica: A sacred Maroon ceremony of spirit possession and healing in Jamaica
- [Gussadi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gussadi-dance), India: A Raj Gond stick dance performed in peacock feather crowns during Diwali festivals
- [Tsutsube](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tsutsube), Botswana: A ritual dance of the San people in Botswana for life stages and healing.
- [Bayalata](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bayalaata), India: Open-air dance-drama staged across Karnataka to celebrate the end of harvest
- [Newar dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/newar-dance), Nepal: Traditional dances of the Newar people in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley
- [Cross-step waltz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cross-step-waltz), France: A slow ballroom dance in triple time defined by a crossed-foot opening step.
- [Malwai Giddha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/malwai-giddha), India: A male folk dance from the Malwa region of Punjab, featuring rhythmic instrument playing and teasing poetry.
- [Sandiwara](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sandiwara), Indonesia: A traditional Indonesian folk theatre form blending drama, music, and dance
- [Slide](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/slide-tune-type), Ireland: A fast Irish dance tune in 12/8 time, danced by groups in southwest Ireland
- [Pottan Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pottan-theyyam), India: A ritual dance of northern Kerala that enacts a dalit man's defiance against caste hierarchy.
- [Pursere Kattuna](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pursere-kattuna), India: An all-night house-visiting ritual dance and folk theatre from Tulunadu
- [Matki Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/matki-dance), India: A solo women's dance from central India where performers balance a clay pot in a circle.
- [Dhan Nach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dhan-nach), Nepal: A Limbu folk dance celebrating the paddy harvest, danced in lines or circles.
- [Borankana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/borankana), Botswana: A traditional dance of the Bakwena people in Botswana, characterized by trouser-pegging movements.
- [Mappila Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mappila-theyyam), India: A North Malabar ritual dance honouring Muslim spirits alongside Hindu deities
- [Maskarada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maskarada-carnival-of-soule), France: A Basque carnival parade of dance and theatre in Soule, France
- [Javanese dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/javanese-dances), Indonesia: Controlled, graceful palace traditions and spirited folk dances from Java
- [Mayilpeeli Thookkam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mayilpeeli-thookkam), India: A solo or paired ritual dance from Kerala, performed overnight in temple courtyards.
- [Lungi Panchi Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lungi-panchi-dance), India: A Santal line dance from West Bengal, featuring women in red-bordered saris and men with drums.
- [Boduberu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/boduberu), Maldives: A group drum dance from the Maldives featuring wild movements and trance states.
- [Huteng](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/huteng), China: A leaping dance from Central Asia, popular in Tang dynasty China.
- [Dutch folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dutch-folk-dance), Netherlands: Traditional dances of the Netherlands, often performed in groups or couples at social events.
- [Khigga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khigga), Syria: A curved line dance of Assyrian people, held by hands and danced at weddings.
- [Palo de Mayo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/palo-de-mayo), Nicaragua: A sensual circle dance around a ribboned pole, celebrated during a month-long festival on the Caribbean coast.
- [Country dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/engelska), United Kingdom: A social group dance from England with set patterns and partner swapping.
- [Marfa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/marfa-music), India: A rhythmic stick and sword dance of Hyderabadi Muslims, performed to kettledrum beats.
- [Xuc](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/xuc), El Salvador: A lively couple dance from El Salvador in 2/4 time.
- [Gankino horo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gankino-horo), Bulgaria: An eleven-beat Bulgarian folk dance structured around a seven-step grapevine
- [Hoko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hoko), Chile: A tribal war dance from Easter Island, also used as a welcome gesture and pre-match ritual.
- [Sagayan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sagayan), Philippines: A Philippine war dance reenacting the epic deeds of Prince Bantugan
- [Pulimaranja Thondachan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pulimaranja-thondachan), India: A North Malabar Theyyam ritual dance honouring the legendary hero Kari Kurikkal
- [Tipri](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tipri-dance-punjab), India: A Punjabi stick dance performed in circles and pairs during the Bavan Dvadasi festival.
- [Ecstatic dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ecstatic-dance): A free-form improvisation where dancers surrender to rhythm to reach a trance-like state of emotional release.
- [Didong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/didong), Indonesia: A Gayo folk art of poetry, hand clapping, and seated dance from Aceh
- [Nagila](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nagila), Ghana: A rhythmic solo stamping dance of the Kassena and Frafra people in Ghana.
- [Argentine cumbia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/argentine-cumbia), Argentina: A dance and music style from Argentina that evolved from Colombian roots into urban social gatherings.
- [Choobazi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/choobazi), Iran: An Iranian stick-fighting dance accompanied by drums, danced at weddings
- [Ball dels Cossiers](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ball-dels-cossiers), Spain: A circle dance from Majorca where three pairs defend a central figure from a demon.
- [Syabru](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/syabru), Nepal: A Himalayan circle and line folk dance from Nepal's Sherpa and Yolmo communities
- [Qhapaq negro](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/qhapaq-negro), Peru: A traditional folk dance from the Cusco region of Peru.
- [Ke Mu San](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ke-mu-san), China: A viral Chinese dance featuring fast wrist twirls and swinging knee movements
- [Combat Hopak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/combat-hopak), Ukraine: A Ukrainian martial art rooted in Cossack war dances and folk fighting traditions
- [Otole](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/otole-dance), Uganda: A traditional Acholi war dance featuring mock combat, drums, and protective formations.
- [Debaa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/debaa), France: A women's danced choral tradition from the island of Mayotte
- [Chunaengjeon](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chunaengjeon), South Korea: A solo court dance where a dancer imitates an oriole on a floral mat.
- [Charadupinnikkali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/charadupinnikkali), India: A cord dance from South Kerala where players weave and undo strings.
- [Cariñosa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/carinosa), Philippines: A colonial era partner dance using a fan to show shy romance
- [Ghatu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ghatu), Nepal: A ritual folk dance of western Nepal telling the tragic story of a king and queen
- [Ballo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ballo), Italy: A fifteenth-century Italian court dance known for shifting speeds and meters.
- [Kachāshī](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kachashi), Japan: A celebratory Okinawan folk dance marked by raised, flowing hand motions
- [Angelica](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/angelica), Greece: An ancient Greek dance performed by messengers at feasts and festivals.
- [Sufi whirling](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tanoura), Turkey: A spinning meditation of Sufi dervishes seeking spiritual connection through rhythmic rotation.
- [Double bugg](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/double-bugg), Sweden: A Swedish trio swing dance where one man dances with two women.
- [Corridinho](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/corridinho), Portugal: A Portuguese couple dance in a rotating circle, known for its lively steps and folk music.
- [Grida dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/grida-dance), India: A three-part village dance from Madhya Pradesh, danced at the Rabi harvest
- [Grizzly Bear](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/grizzly-bear), United States: A close-embrace couple dance from the United States that mimics a bear's gait to ragtime music.
- [Fusion dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fusion-dance), United States: A social partner dance mixing styles like blues and tango with improvisation.
- [Daggering](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/daggering), Jamaica: A Jamaican dancehall couple dance that acts out sex on the party floor
- [Serra](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/serra), Greece: A fast Pontic Greek circle dance with intense footwork and muscular movements.
- [Großvater Tanz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gro-vatertanz), Germany: A German folk dance from Saxony, traditionally played as the wedding finale.
- [Liwa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/liwa-music), Iran: A lively Gulf circle dance of Swahili origin driven by drums and double reed pipe
- [Sanam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sanam), China: A Uyghur folk dance from Xinjiang, featuring expressive neck and finger movements that speed up with the music.
- [Lipsi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lipsi), Germany: A 1950s East German group dance made to counter rock and roll.
- [Long sword dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/long-sword-dance), United Kingdom: A rigid-blade sword dance from Yorkshire and County Durham.
- [Singhi Chham](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/singhi-chham), India: A Bhutia snow lion dance performed for the Panglapsool festival in Sikkim
- [Setapa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/setapa), Botswana: A stamping folk dance of the Bangwaketse people in Botswana.
- [Phulpati Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/phulpati-dance), India: A celebratory folk dance performed by unmarried girls in the Malwa region
- [Kushan dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kushan-dance), Bangladesh: A Rajbongshi folk drama form based on the Ramayan, performed with bamboo instruments.
- [Father–daughter dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/father-daughter-dance), United States: A partner dance between a father and his daughter at weddings or school events.
- [Ballo liscio](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/liscio), Italy: A smooth Italian partner dance from Romagna, played with accordion and fiddle.
- [Chumak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chumak), Ukraine: A Ukrainian folk dance reenacting the work and journey of salt merchants.
- [Maibi Jagoi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maibi-jagoi), India: A shamanic ritual dance performed by female mediums during forest deity ceremonies in Manipur.
- [Electric-Techno Neon Gods](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/electric-techno-neon-gods), Taiwan: A Taiwanese folk dance fused with electronic music and LED costumes.
- [Jatjatin Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jatjatin-dance), Nepal: A Mithila folk dance for rain and romance, danced by a couple with dholak and manjira.
- [Slängpolska](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/slangpolska), Sweden: A fast Swedish partner dance featuring spinning holds and tossing steps.
- [Joged Bumbung](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gamelan-joged-bumbung), Indonesia: A flirtatious Balinese dance accompanied by lively bamboo gamelan music
- [Fann at-Tanbura](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fann-at-tanbura), Bahrain: A Gulf music and dance tradition tied to healing ceremonies and the tanbura lyre
- [Ohangla](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ohangla), Kenya: A fast-paced hip dance of the Luo people in Kenya, accompanied by multiple drums.
- [Affranchi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/affranchi), Haiti: A Haitian folk dance blending French figures with African improvisation.
- [Yowlah](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/al-ayyalah), United Arab Emirates: A traditional armed group dance from the Arabian Peninsula performed at weddings and celebrations.
- [Kwadril](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kwadril), Saint Lucia: A Creole folk dance of the Lesser Antilles, derived from the European quadrille.
- [The Stroll](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/the-stroll): A 1950s partner dance in two facing lines with a moving center couple
- [Seungjeonmu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/seungjeonmu), South Korea: A Korean court dance combining sword and drum performances to celebrate military victory.
- [Kuda Lumping](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jathilan), Indonesia: A Javanese ritual dance riding flat woven horses into states of trance
- [Bardo Chham](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bardo-chham), India: A masked dance drama from Arunachal Pradesh telling tales of good overcoming evil
- [Carabinier](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/carabinier), Haiti: A Haitian couples dance born from the revolution and European military regiments.
- [Vlečenoto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/vlecenoto), North Macedonia: A traditional Macedonian folk dance from Skopje featuring dragging footwork and jumps.
- [Potrčulka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/potrculka), North Macedonia: A Macedonian oro from Kočani danced by women in a half circle.
- [Maglalatik](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maglalatik), Philippines: A Philippine mock battle dance where men strike coconut shells attached to their bodies.
- [Interpretive dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/interpretive-dance): A modern dance style focused on expressing emotion through natural movement rather than rigid technique.
- [Stave dancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/stave-dancing), United Kingdom: A south-west English folk dance performed while carrying decorated wooden poles
- [Maracatu Nação](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maracatu-nacao), Brazil: An Afro-Brazilian royal court procession and dance driven by heavy percussion
- [Tarraxinha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tarraxinha), Angola: A close-contact Angolan partner dance born in Benguela province
- [Podaraki](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/podaraki), Greece: A stomping circle dance from the Pontos region, accompanied by a female song about marriage and fun.
- [Zarambeque](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zarambeque): A lively, boisterous historical dance from the Spanish colonial Americas
- [Apanomeritis](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/apanomeritis), Greece: A Cretan circle dance known for stamping footwork and sung mantinades.
- [Danish folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/danish-folk-dance): An accessible social tradition of group and partner dances from Denmark
- [Goli](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/goli), Ivory Coast: A day-long mask dance of the Baoulé people with four distinct pairs of masks
- [Smolensky gusachok](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/smolensky-gusaczok), Russia: An old Russian and Belarusian round dance mimicking the playful antics of geese
- [Bear Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bear-dance), United States: A Ute spring ceremony of back-and-forth dancing to honor bears and renew community bonds.
- [Hacha'a](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hacha-a), Iraq: An expressive Iraqi folk dance featuring dynamic hair swings, stomping, and daggers.
- [Pontic Greek folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pontic-greek-folk-dance), Greece: Lively line and circle dances preserved by the Pontic Greek diaspora
- [Soke](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/soke), Tonga: A Tongan group dance where performers strike sticks together on the beat of a drum.
- [Walking Boston](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/walking-boston): A simple ballroom dance in waltz time, featuring walking steps and balancing turns.
- [Hoedown](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hoedown), United States: A fast American folk dance in duple meter, linked to square dancing and fiddle tunes.
- [Grotesque dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/grotesque-dance), Italy: A lively theatrical dance style known for humor, bold jumps, and athletic twists.
- [Boogaloo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/boogaloo-q85748226), United States: A funk street dance of rhythmic lunges, sudden freezes, and robotic illusions.
- [Hop-tu-Naa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hop-tu-naa): A traditional Manx processional folk dance performed by paired couples
- [Lathi Nach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lathi-nach), Nepal: A Tharu stick dance from Nepal, pulsed by the striking of wooden sticks
- [Zapateo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zapateo), Spain: A percussive footwork dance of Spanish origin, performed as a competitive duel by men in South America.
- [Sadi Moma](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sadi-moma), Bulgaria: An open-circle Bulgarian folk dance set to an asymmetrical seven-beat rhythm
- [Beni](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/beni-music), Kenya: An East African brass band dance parodying colonial military drills
- [Shamia e Beqarit](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/shamia-e-beqarit), Albania: The final dance of an Albanian wedding, where the couple burns a bachelor handkerchief
- [Gendang Beleq](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gendang-beleq), Indonesia: A sacred marching drum dance of the Sasak people of Lombok
- [Dunhuang dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dunhuang-dance), China: A Chinese dance style inspired by ancient cave murals and Buddhist figures.
- [Garland dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/garland-dance), United Kingdom: An English dance from northern mill towns performed with flower-covered garlands
- [Freilekhs](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/freilekhs), Romania: A cheerful Ashkenazi Jewish circle dance done to lively klezmer music
- [Sundanese dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sundanese-dances), Indonesia: Dynamic, drum-led dances of western Java, from village harvests to Jaipongan
- [Tītī tōrea](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/titi-torea), United States: A rhythmic Māori stick game danced and tossed in time to music
- [Hiplet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hiplet), United States: A fusion of classical ballet technique and hip hop movement.
- [Likok Pulo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/likok-pulo), Indonesia: A seated Acehnese group dance with fast, synchronized upper-body movements
- [Theyyannam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/theyyannam), India: A ritual agricultural dance depicting paddy farming in central Travancore
- [Koftos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/koftos), Greece: A lively Greek dance with sudden musical pauses where dancers shout and gesture
- [Reog](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/barongan), Indonesia: A Javanese dance drama featuring a heavy lion mask carried by teeth in an open arena.
- [Stomp dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/stomp-dance), United States: An all-night ceremonial dance of Eastern Woodland tribes featuring a counterclockwise spiral around a sacred fire.
- [Ai Georgis](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ai-georgis), Greece: A Greek shepherd dance in 7/8 and 2/4 time, performed with crooks on St George's feast day.
- [Eunyul talchum](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/eunyul-talchum), North Korea: A traditional Korean masked dance-drama from Hwanghae Province
- [Bump](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bump), United States: A 1970s partner dance where couples knock hips together on the beat of the music
- [Ukusina](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ukusina), South Africa: A traditional Zulu dance of kicks and stomps performed at social and religious gatherings.
- [Tandok dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tandok-dance), Indonesia: A Batak harvest dance of North Sumatra using woven baskets to celebrate family bonds
- [Banamba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/banamba), Suriname: A Saramaccan dance from Suriname featuring rhythmic hip and body movements
- [Yup'ik dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yup-ik-dance), United States: A storytelling dance of southwestern Alaska driven by frame drums and feather fans
- [Tauʻolunga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tau-olunga), Tonga: A Tongan dance of stylised hand gestures performed by young women.
- [Castle Walk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/castle-walk), United States: A smooth, strutting ragtime ballroom walk created by Vernon and Irene Castle.
- [Mixer dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mixer-dance), Lithuania: A social dance where partners change frequently through structured or random procedures.
- [Bullerengue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bullerengue), Colombia: A drum-driven song and dance tradition of Colombia's Maroon communities
- [Subli](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/subli), Philippines: A devotional folk dance of Batangas honouring the Holy Cross with hats and castanets
- [Jitterbug Stroll](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jitterbug-stroll): A four-wall swing line dance created for Lindy Hop dancers in the 1990s
- [Agbekor](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/agbekor), Ghana: An ancient Ewe war dance now performed as a cultural presentation in Ghana.
- [Okumkpa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/okumkpa), Nigeria: A masked Igbo dance from Nigeria known for humor and satire.
- [J-Setting](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/j-setting), United States: An energetic Black marching danceline style built on bold thrusts and high kicks
- [African-American stick dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/stick-dance-african-american), United States: A plantation-era performance using wooden rods that doubled as hidden weapons.
- [Cajun Jitterbug](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cajun-jitterbug): A lively partner dance featuring turns and a subtle foot weight shift.
- [Nisiotika](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nisiotika), Greece: Traditional island songs and folk dances from across the Greek Aegean
- [Kaura](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kaura), Nepal: A folk dance of western Nepal performed by Gurung and Magar communities during festivals.
- [Eagle dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/eagle-dance), United States: A ritual dance embodying the eagle, seeking rain, healing, and peace
- [Goseong Ogwangdae](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/goseong-ogwangdae), South Korea: A lively masked dance-drama from Goseong that satirizes the nobility.
- [Myel lyel](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/myel-lyel), Uganda: A mourning dance of the Acholi people in Northern Uganda, performed around burial sites.
- [Zapin Api](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zapin-api), Indonesia: A Malay fire dance from Riau where dancers handle burning embers in a trance
- [Hopak-Kolom](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hopak-kolom), Ukraine: A Ukrainian circle folk dance with roots in Cossack combat training.
- [Mdundiko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mdundiko), Tanzania: A ritual dance of the Zaramo people in Tanzania for weddings and female puberty rites.
- [Nutbush](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nutbush), Australia: A group line dance from Australia, performed to the song Nutbush City Limits.
- [Fisounis](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fisounis), Greece: A Greek folk dance from Preveza named for the wind-like movement of women's dresses.
- [Mopacho](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mopacho), Republic of the Congo: A full-body urban dance from Brazzaville that uses rhythmic isolation to express personal control.
- [Hitch hike](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hitch-hike): A 1960s solo dance mimicking a thumb signal for rides.
- [Cumbia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cumbia-panama), Panama: A Panamanian circle dance of couples stepping to rhythmic drumming and accordion
- [Akiriket](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/akiriket), Uganda: A male initiation rite and dance of the Karamojong people of Uganda
- [Cadence-lypso](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cadence-lypso), Dominica: A 1970s Caribbean club dance mixing Haitian cadence rampa, Trinidadian calypso, and American funk.
- [Gaze](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gaze), Uganda: A traditional dance of the Lugbara people in Northern Uganda.
- [Diablada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/diablada-punena), Bolivia: A Bolivian folk dance of masked devils and angels, performed in parades and festivals across the Andes.
- [Méringue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/meringue), Haiti: A string-based dance music from Haiti with a syncopated five-beat rhythm.
- [Tautoga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tautoga), Tonga: A formal Rotuman group dance of dignity, choral singing, and contrasting gender roles
- [Peabody](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/peabody), United States: A brisk American ballroom dance from the ragtime era danced in an offset hold
- [Uruguayan tango](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/uruguayan-tango), Uruguay: A partner dance born in Montevideo's working-class neighborhoods in the late 1800s.
- [Ekiria Kiria](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ekiria-kiria), Uganda: A synchronized folk dance of the Teso people in Eastern Uganda
- [Tranky Doo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tranky-doo): A solo jazz choreography created by Frankie Manning for swing music.
- [Modern dance in the United States](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/modern-dance-in-the-united-states), United States: A 20th-century concert genre rooted in expressive physical freedom and theatrical innovation
- [La Raspa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/la-raspa), Mexico: A Mexican folk dance from Veracruz linked to the sound of a scraper instrument.
- [Asyik](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/asyik), Malaysia: A delicate Malay royal court dance created to comfort a grieving queen
- [Panamanian punto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/punto-music), Panama: An elegant Panamanian partner dance presented between party sets
- [Dionysiakos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dionysiakos), Greece: An ancient Greek dance and ritual custom honoring the god Dionysus
- [Fatele](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fatele), Tuvalu: A traditional dance song of Tuvalu performed in lines with rhythmic clapping and singing.
- [Welsh stepdance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/welsh-stepdance), United Kingdom: A percussive solo and group dance from Wales, featuring athletic tricks in wooden-soled shoes.
- [Mwanzele](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mwanzele), Kenya: A traditional funeral dance of the Mijikenda people from coastal Kenya
- [Cajun Jig](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cajun-jig), United States: A simple partner dance from Louisiana danced to two-four or four-four time.
- [Flash dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/flash-dance): A high-energy form of tap dance combined with daring acrobatics
- [Pandanallur style](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pandanallur-style), India: A classical Bharatanatyam school noted for linear geometry and understated expression
- [Improvisational Team Synchronization](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/improvisational-team-synchronization), United States: An ensemble belly dance style where dancers improvise in unison using physical cues
- [Fakaseasea](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fakaseasea), Tuvalu: A traditional Tuvaluan dance song performed by women with loose movement rules.
- [Buzzard lope](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/buzzard-lope), United States: A comic imitation of a scavenger bird, danced with shuffles and hops around a piece of cloth.
- [Bailarico](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bailarico), Portugal: A Portuguese circle dance where pairs bounce and then spin in place.
- [Molly dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/molly-dance), United Kingdom: A winter Morris tradition from East Anglia featuring cross-dressing and blackened faces, danced by unemployed farmworker
- [Berovka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/berovka), North Macedonia: A fast Macedonian women's oro dance with jumps, performed in a half circle.
- [Pambiche](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pambiche), Dominican Republic: A slower Dominican dance derived from traditional merengue and American social steps
- [Kolo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kola), Serbia: A South Slavic circle dance held by hands or waists, performed at weddings and festivals.
- [Lambadão cuiabano](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lambadao-cuiabano), Brazil: A fast swing dance from the periphery of Cuiabá, Brazil
- [Diski Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/diski-dance), South Africa: A South African dance built from choreographed football moves for the 2010 World Cup
- [Montenegrin Oro](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/montenegrin-oro), Montenegro: An eagle-inspired Montenegrin national folk dance that builds to a human pyramid
- [Raptor House](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/raptor-house), Venezuela: An energetic Venezuelan street dance born from electronic party beats in Caracas
- [El Vito](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/el-vito), Spain: An Andalusian folk dance blending bolero rhythms and bullfighting steps
- [Inai dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/inai), Malaysia: A traditional Malay court dance performed for royal circumcision and wedding ceremonies.
- [Makedonikos antikristos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/makedonikos-antikristos), Greece: A Greek face-to-face partner dance from the region of Macedonia
- [Kantu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kantu), Bolivia: A highland circle dance from the Andes, performed with panpipes and Quechua or Aymara songs.
- [Kakilambe](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kakilambe), Guinea: A West African masked ritual dance celebrating fertility, health, and new life
- [Robam Meh Ambao](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/robam-meh-ambao), Cambodia: A Cambodian school play-dance where bug hunters catch singing butterflies in a garden
- [Ball de diables](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ball-de-diables), Spain: A theatrical devil dance and procession from Catalonia enacting good against evil
- [The Shake](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/the-shake): A freeform 1960s fad dance with trembling legs, flailing arms, and head shaking
- [Pembe](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pembe), North Macedonia: A hand-in-hand circle dance from Veles that starts slow and quickens to the end
- [Breakaway](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/breakaway): A solo-escape swing step from the 1920s that preceded the Lindy Hop.
- [Persian classical dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/classical-persian-dance), Iran: An Iranian concert dance form that grew out of royal court entertainments
- [Canadian stepdance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/canadian-stepdance), Canada: A percussive solo dance in Canada, danced to fiddle tunes with sharp footwork.
- [Hunguhungu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hunguhungu), Belize: A swaying circle dance of Garifuna women, accompanied by drums and chanting.
- [Cornish dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cornish-dance), United Kingdom: Traditional dances of Cornwall, including step dancing, feast day rounds, and social circle dances.
- [Bush dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bush-dance), Australia: A social partner dance from Australia, performed to live folk tunes in community halls.
- [Khiamniungan folk dances](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khiamniungan-folk-dances), India: A collection of traditional dances from the Khiamniungan people of Nagaland, performed for festivals, war rituals, and p
- [Orunyege-Ntogoro](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/orunyege-ntogoro), Uganda: A courtship dance of western Uganda featuring leg rattles and waist rings.
- [Takamba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/takamba), Mali: A flowing Sahelian dance of swaying shoulders and arms, done seated or standing
- [ʻOtuhaka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/otuhaka), Tonga: A seated Tongan court dance of arm gestures and rhythmic mat-drumming
- [Nyakyusa dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dances-of-the-nyakyusa), Tanzania: Age-grouped harvest and social dances of the Nyakyusa people in Tanzania and Malawi
- [Harul](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/harul), India: A storytelling song and line dance of the Jaunsari and Hatee communities
- [Crnogorka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/crnogorka), North Macedonia: A lively Macedonian circle dance from Skopje with swift steps and jumps
- [Aragonaise](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/aragonaise), Spain: A Spanish triple-meter dance played with guitars and castanets
- [Antikristos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/antikristos), Greece: A Greek couple dance where partners face each other across the floor.
- [Adana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/adana), North Macedonia: A men's chain dance from Veles that moves from steady balancing to jumps and turns
- [Litefeet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/litefeet), United States: A fast, weightless street dance born on the streets and subways of Harlem
- [Wilt thou go to the barracks, Johnny?](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/wilt-thou-go-to-the-barracks-johnny), United Kingdom: A Scottish Highland dance performed in full kilt attire to pipe music.
- [Finger tutting](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/finger-tutting), United States: An intricate street dance style focused on geometric finger and hand shapes
- [Lipothymiarikos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lipothymiarikos), Greece: A Greek wedding dance where men mimic a fainting bride in the early morning hours.
- [Maulu'ulu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maulu-ulu), Samoa: A Samoan group dance in layered rows, echoing daily work through graceful gestures
- [Leventikos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/leventikos), Greece: A five-beat circle dance from western Macedonia and northern Greece.
- [Mussoll](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mussoll), India: A Goan folk dance performed with jingling wooden pestles
- [Kaşık Havası](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kas-k-havas), Turkey: A Mediterranean folk dance performed with wooden spoons in 2/4 or 4/4 time.
- [Vattakkali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/vattakkali), India: A fast ring dance of the Vattuvar community in Kerala, performed during Onam.
- [Bulba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bulba), Belarus: A lively Belarusian stage dance depicting the work of farming potatoes
- [Dabus](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dabus), Malaysia: A heroic Malay warrior dance sustained for centuries in Perak
- [Ja'i](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ja-i), Indonesia: A communal row dance from Indonesia performed during village worship rites
- [Slovenian-style polka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/slovenian-style-polka), United States: A dance music style from Cleveland with accordion and saxophone.
- [Skudrinka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/skudrinka), North Macedonia: A Macedonian oro folk dance from Dolna Reka performed in a half circle with shared sticks.
- [Spiral dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/spiral-dance), United States: A Neopagan group ritual where dancers trace a spiral to honor the dead and celebrate rebirth.
- [Dutty Wine](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dutty-wine), Jamaica: A high-energy Jamaican dancehall style marked by circular neck rolls and hip gyration
- [Labi-labi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/labi-labi), Malaysia: A humorous Malaysian folk dance imitating the movements of softshell turtles
- [Round dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/round-dance-q55273250), Australia: Choreographed ballroom couples dancing together in a circle guided by spoken cues
- [Llama llama](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/llama-llama), Bolivia: A masked farce dance of the Uru people, performed as a disguise game with acrobatic elements.
- [Fanga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fanga), Liberia: A Liberian dance of welcome and invocation to the earth and sky.
- [Milonguero style](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/milonguero-style), Argentina: An intimate, close-embrace style of social tango shaped by crowded dance floors
- [Welsh dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/welsh-dance), United Kingdom: Energetic folk dancing from Wales, featuring intricate sets and athletic step routines.
- [Gerontikos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gerontikos), Greece: A traditional men's dance from Florina that starts slow and speeds up.
- [Kopanitsa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kopanitsa), Bulgaria: A lively Bulgarian line dance driven by a five-beat digging rhythm in 11/8 time
- [Logobi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/logobi), France: A modern Ivorian street dance depicting gang life and social struggle.
- [Pravo horo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pravo), Bulgaria: A curving line dance from Bulgaria, performed at weddings and feasts across the Balkans.
- [Mak Sa'moa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mak-sa-moa), Fiji: A slower Rotuman dance with Samoan roots, danced by older generations during the av' mane'a season.
- [Rom kbach](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rom-kbach), Cambodia: A slow Cambodian dance style with emotional melodies.
- [Serpent dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/serpent-dance), United Kingdom: A Cornish street dance performed in a winding line during summer fire festivals.
- [Big Apple](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/big-apple), United States: A circle and partner dance from the African American community in the United States.
- [Buffalo dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/buffalo-dance), India: A Plains Native ceremony to welcome the buffalo herds and ensure abundance.
- [Bomba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bomba-ecuador), Ecuador: A pair dance with drum improvisation from the Chota Valley of Ecuador.
- [Biyaya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/biyaya): A circular community dance from Mayotte, paced by double-headed drums
- [Kōwakamai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kowakamai), Japan: A Japanese recitative dance from the medieval warrior class, performed by three narrators in court dress.
- [Moraego](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/moraego), Indonesia: A ritual circle dance and song tradition from the Central Sulawesi highlands
- [Malhão](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/malhao), Portugal: A Portuguese circle dance and song in 2/4 time from the Douro region.
- [Straight dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/straight-dance), United States: A dignified pow wow style where dancers trace hunting paths with toe-heel steps and drag an otter hide.
- [Turkey dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/turkey-dance), United States: An afternoon Caddo women's dance that recounts tribal history to drums
- [Zaramo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zaramo), North Macedonia: A Macedonian and northern Greek shoulder-hold chain dance with lifted footwork
- [Rinkafadda](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rinkafadda), Ireland: A sixteenth-century Irish line dance where couples join one by one in a row.
- [Bibasis](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bibasis), Greece: An athletic Spartan jumping dance where dancers kick their own backsides to music
- [Bitti Harey](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bitti-harey), Niger: A celebratory drum dance of the Zarma people in Niger
- [Mak Inang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mak-inang), Malaysia: A graceful traditional Malay court dance dating from the Malacca Sultanate
- [Flexing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/flexing), United States: A Brooklyn street dance built on Jamaican bruk-up rhythms and showmanship moves.
- [Isos Sinasos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/isos-sinasos), Greece: A women-only Greek folk dance from the region of Sinasos in Asia Minor.
- [Pirgousikos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pirgousikos), Greece: A Greek trio dance performed in a V shape for Carnival and weddings
- [Bajidor Kahot](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bajidor-kahot), Indonesia: A Sundanese dance from Indonesia blending Ketuk Tilu and Jaipongan movements.
- [Skirt dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/skirt-dance), United Kingdom: A theatrical dance where women swirl long layered fabric to create flowing visual patterns.
- [Croatian folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/croatian-folk-dance), Croatia: Lively circle dances, stepped patterns, and sword pageants from across Croatia
- [Branyo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/branyo), Malaysia: A Portuguese-derived folk dance from Malacca, danced for Shrove Sunday.
- [Rake-and-scrape](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rake-and-scrape), Bahamas: A traditional Bahamian music and dance style shaped by African and European roots
- [Sardana de l'Alcalde](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/la-sardana-de-l-alcalde), Spain: An open-circle Catalan folk dance performed during the annual town festival of Amer
- [Chula](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chula-music), Portugal: A historic folk dance and challenge tradition found across Portugal and Brazil
- [Filipino American dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/filipino-american-dance), United States: Social and theatrical dances expressing Filipino diaspora identity in the United States
- [Salty Dog Rag](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/salty-dog-rag), United States: An American couple dance done to a lively schottische rhythm
- [Money Musk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/money-musk), United Kingdom: A classic country dance known for its shifting lines and lively turns
- [Kolo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/serbian-dances), Serbia: A chain dance of linked hands and rhythmic steps, central to Serbian social life.
- [Huaylía](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/huaylia), Peru: A highland Christmas dance and music tradition from the Peruvian Andes
- [Goravara Kunitha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/goravara-kunitha), India: A folk dance of the Kuruba people in Karnataka, performed by initiated Gorava men.
- [Danzantes de Levanto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/danzantes-de-levanto), Peru: A traditional Peruvian group dance guided by a panpipe and drum player
- [Gothic belly dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gothic-belly-dance), United States: A theatrical fusion of belly dance technique with goth subculture and dark aesthetics
- [Sean-nós dance in America](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sean-nos-dance-in-united-states), Ireland: An informal solo Irish dance tradition practiced by communities across the United States.
- [Loulouvikos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/loulouvikos), Greece: A squatting circle dance from Megara, performed by men during the Greek carnival season.
- [Manau](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/manau), Myanmar: A Kachin circular procession dance around decorated sacred poles to drumbeats
- [Valse à deux temps](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/valse-a-deux-temps), Russia: A Russian ballroom waltz danced with two foot movements across three musical beats
- [Bankhead Bounce](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bankhead-bounce), United States: A shoulder-shaking street dance from Atlanta's Bankhead neighborhood.
- [Arcan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/arcan), Romania: A Romanian rite of passage where men dance around a fire to mark their entry into adulthood.
- [Starotikveško](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/starotikvesko), North Macedonia: A fast-footed men's chain dance from the Tikveš region of North Macedonia
- [Venezuelan waltz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/venezuelan-waltz), Venezuela: A hall and popular dance genre from 19th-century Venezuela blending European form with local rhythms.
- [Hungarian folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hungarian-folk-dance), Hungary: Improvisational circle, couple, and male dances of the Hungarian people
- [African-American dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/african-american-dance), United States: Improvisational social and stage traditions of the Black diaspora in the United States
- [Juego de Maní](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/juego-de-mani), Cuba: A Cuban stick-fighting dance and martial art performed in a circle by men.
- [Pajoge](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pajoge), Indonesia: A courtship and court dance from South Sulawesi performed by girls and transgender dancers.
- [Tatsia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tatsia), Cyprus: A Cypriot skill dance where men balance wine glasses on a sieve while moving.
- [Dikir barat](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dikir-barat), Malaysia: Seated choral singing with rhythmic clapping and sharp lyrical duels
- [Svadbarsko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/svadbarsko), North Macedonia: A men's wedding chain dance from Veles, in a half circle, to a 2/4 beat.
- [Tinya palla](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tinya-palla), Peru: A Peruvian folk dance where women represent Inca princesses.
- [Pettathullal](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pettathullal), India: A sacred celebratory procession dance of Sabarimala pilgrims in Erumely, Kerala
- [Zonaradiko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zonaradiko), Greece: A Greek village line dance where partners hold each other's belts.
- [Nabichum](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nabichum), South Korea: A Korean Buddhist ritual dance performed in robes and peaked hats to resemble butterflies.
- [Hoochie coochie](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hoochie-coochie), United States: A provocative belly dance style performed by women in traveling sideshows during the late nineteenth century.
- [Barachum](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/barachum), South Korea: A Korean Buddhist ritual dance performed by monks with a brass cymbal to purify the mind.
- [Djolé](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/djole), Sierra Leone: A mask dance of the Temine people in Sierra Leone, performed for feasts and harvests.
- [Adai-adai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/adai-adai), Brunei: A traditional Bruneian Malay dance depicting the lives of fishermen and their families.
- [Ceracap Inai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ceracap-inai), Malaysia: A Malay palace dance from Johor performed with golden flowers and candles.
- [Fakanau](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fakanau), Tuvalu: A traditional male dance of Tuvalu performed with singing and clapping.
- [Gaur Maria Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gaur-maria-dance), India: A tribal folk dance of Bastar performed at weddings with drumming and feathered headgear.
- [New Vogue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/new-vogue), Australia: An Australian sequence ballroom style built on preset repeating patterns
- [Yove male mome](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yove-male-mome), Bulgaria: A fast Bulgarian line dance in compound meter, held by the belt.
- [Rudat](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rudat-dance), Indonesia: A Sasak welcoming dance from Lombok that uses pencak silat martial movements.
- [Kolattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kolannalu), India: A Tamil folk dance where women strike wooden sticks in rhythm while singing.
- [Earsdon Sword Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/earsdon-sword-dance), United Kingdom: A Northumberland village sword dance performed by seven people in bright costume.
- [Crpi voda, Jano](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/crpi-voda-jano), North Macedonia: A Skopje folk oro danced on the balls of the feet with a belt hold
- [Gluvo-nemo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gluvo-nemo), North Macedonia: A Macedonian women's dance timed to the clink of costume coins
- [Yumsharol Jagoi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yumsharol-jagoi), India: A Meitei ritual dance enacting the stages of house building through sacred gestures
- [Daychovo horo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/daychovo-horo), Bulgaria: A Bulgarian circle dance with a caller in nine-beat rhythm
- [International folk dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/international-folk-dance), United States: A social dance style uniting global traditions in American clubs and camps.
- [Kolam Thullal](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kolam-thullal), India: A sacred ritual dance from southern Kerala performed to cast out evil spirits
- [Goria dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/goria-dance), India: A sowing festival dance of Tripura mimicking nature from village to village
- [Duke of Perth](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/duke-of-perth-reel), United Kingdom: A Scottish social dance and reel traditionally set to music in two-four time
- [Luddi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/luddi), India: A circle dance of Punjab, danced by all ages to celebrate weddings and victories.
- [Parai Attam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/parai-attam), India: A Tamil drum dance where performers play a strapped frame drum with two wooden sticks
- [Ireng mask dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ireng-mask-dance), Indonesia: A Javanese group dance featuring feather crowns and clattering boot bells
- [Kuichaa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kuichaa), Japan: A vigorous circle dance from the Miyako Islands with group singing and clapping
- [Sasa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sasa), Samoa: A seated Samoan folk dance of rhythmic clapping and mimed daily tasks.
- [Trata](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/trata), Greece: A Greek folk dance mimicking the hauling of fishing nets, performed in Megara and the Aegean.
- [Shalako](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/shalako), United States: A winter solstice ceremony and dance of the Zuni people
- [Kenshibu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kenshibu), Japan: A Japanese dance combining sword or fan movements with recited poetry.
- [Itik-itik](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/itik-itik), Philippines: A Philippine folk dance mimicking the movements of ducks through improvisation and short steps.
- [Temple dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/temple-dance), India: A sacred Hindu performance held inside ancient Indian shrines.
- [Chicago Stepping](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chicago-stepping), United States: A smooth partner dance from Chicago clubs that evolved into a straight-line style.
- [Ewoya Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ewoya-dance), Uganda: A courtship jumping dance of the Jie people in north-eastern Uganda
- [Māʻuluʻulu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ma-ulu-ulu), Tonga: A seated Tongan dance of rhythmic gestures and song, performed by mixed groups.
- [Naz elama](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/naz-elama), Azerbaijan: A couple's Azerbaijani folk dance expressing refinement and impetuosity.
- [Gay Gordons](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gay-gordons), United Kingdom: A Scottish country dance in a circle with couples facing anti-clockwise.
- [Garudan Thookkam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/garudan-thookkam), India: A Kerala temple dance where performers dressed as Garuda are suspended from tall shafts
- [Weapon dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/weapon-dance), Spain: A ceremonial reenactment of combat using swords, staffs, spears, and archery bows
- [Egedege Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/egedege-dance), Nigeria: A royal Igbo procession and stage dance led by a singer wearing a feathered crown
- [Angama](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/angama), Japan: A ceremonial dance of the Yaeyama Islands performed during Bon Festival gatherings.
- [Mako](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mako), Tonga: A fast-paced Tongan dance performed by young men with wild gestures and drum rhythms.
- [Veerabhadra](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/veerabhadra), India: A sacred Goan sword dance enacting divine fury during spring temple rites
- [Kumha Pyakhan](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kumha-pyakhan-dance), Nepal: A sacred masked dance by Newar boys in Kathmandu to protect the goddess Taleju.
- [Meʻetuʻupaki](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/me-etu-upaki), Tonga: A traditional Tongan group dance performed with small paddles and a slit drum.
- [Turkey trot](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/turkey-trot), United States: A fast hopping dance from the early 1900s that caused moral panic and legal trouble.
- [The Frug](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/frug): A mid-1960s dance craze featuring vigorous hip and arm movements to pop music.
- [Sanding](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sanding), United States: A percussive dance of slides and shuffles performed on a sand-strewn floor or in a box.
- [Tapeinos horos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tapeinos-horos), Greece: A slow, humble Greek folk dance led by the bride after a wedding.
- [Ula](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ula), Tonga: A traditional Tongan group dance performed by women in two converging lines.
- [Worship dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/worship-dance), Israel: Sacred movement performed during Christian and Messianic Jewish worship services.
- [Walkaround](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/walkaround): A competitive solo dance from 19th-century minstrel shows, performed in a semicircle.
- [Veeranatyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/veeranatyam), India: A Shaivite ritual dance from Andhra Pradesh featuring fire, poles, and self-piercing.
- [Virginia reel](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/virginia-reel), United States: A line dance of couples performing set figures in two rows.
- [Zydeco](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zydeco), United States: A lively partner dance from Louisiana, danced to syncopated zydeco music with small sidewise steps.
- [Muliza](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/muliza), Peru: A partner dance from the Peruvian highlands linked to muleteers and Carnival
- [Charya dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/charya-dance), Nepal: A sacred Buddhist ritual dance from Nepal portraying deities through song and posture
- [Leventikos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bufcansko), Greece: A five-beat folk dance of western Macedonia, performed by Slav Macedonians and Greeks.
- [The Mule](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mule): A lively 1960s novelty fad rooted in ragtime stride steps
- [Yangju byeolsandae nori](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yangju-byeolsandae-nori), South Korea: A Korean mask drama from Yangju province, performed by officials and entertainers with traditional instruments.
- [Kontradans](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kontradans), Haiti: A creolized partner dance from 18th-century Haiti, blending English country dance with African rhythms.
- [Sangrai dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sangrai-dance), India: A festival dance of the Buddhist Marma people of Tripura
- [Bunny hop](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/bunny-hop), United States: A 1950s novelty line dance of rhythmic foot taps and jumps in a moving chain
- [Teke zortlatması](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/teke-zortlatmasi), Turkey: A fast-paced Turkish folk dance from the Burdur and Fethiye region
- [LeRoc](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/leroc), United Kingdom: A British partner dance with simplified footwork, danced to four-beat music
- [Orunyege-Ntogoro](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/entogoro), Uganda: A courtship dance of western Uganda with gourd leg rattles and beaded waist rings
- [Graham technique](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/graham-technique), United States: A modern dance method shaped by breath, deep torso spirals, and sharp floor falls
- [Tajaraste](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tajaraste), Spain: A lively Canary Island couple dance set to syncopated percussion
- [Poorakkali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/marathukali), India: A dynamic ritual temple dance circled around a towering lamp in North Malabar
- [Bar](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sivas-bar), Turkey: An open-air Eastern Anatolian folk dance performed side by side.
- [Kusemai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kusemai), Japan: A medieval Japanese narrative song and dance marked by strong irregular stamping beats
- [Hasapiko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sirmpa), Greece: A Greek folk dance from Constantinople, rooted in a medieval butchers' sword mime
- [Son mexicano](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/son-mexicano), Mexico: Couples dance percussive footwork on wooden platforms to regional Mexican string bands
- [Regency dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/regency-dance), United Kingdom: Bouncy social ballroom dances of the late Georgian and Regency era
- [Zonaradiko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tsestos), Greece: A Thracian village line dance performed while gripping neighboring dancers' belts
- [Shangaan electro](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/shangaan-electro), South Africa: A high-speed South African township electronic dance style driven by rapid footwork
- [Jagoi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/thougal-jagoi), India: Sacred and classical dances of the Meitei people of Manipur
- [Maypole dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/maypole-dance), Germany: A circle dance around a tall decorated wooden mast during European spring festivals
- [Entarisi ala benziyor](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/entarisi-ala-benziyor), Turkey: A Balkan face-to-face folk dance in nine-beat rhythm
- [Mosak sulmani dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mosak-sumani-dance), India: A traditional ritual dance from Tripura depicting the hunt through elaborate gestures
- [The Thistle](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/the-thistle), United Kingdom: A Scottish solo step dance for women set to waltzes
- [Jawbi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jawbi), Iraq: A circle dance of Iraqi Bedouins and villagers, performed at weddings and festivals.
- [Novelty dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dance-crazes), United States: Catchy social dances that surge quickly into widespread pop-culture fashion
- [Comic ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/comic-ballet), France: A light-hearted narrative dance form that blends storytelling with humor.
- [Bar](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cilveloy), Turkey: An open-air chain and line dance from Eastern Anatolia
- [Owa dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/owa-dance), India: A Buddhist folk dance of the Mog community in Tripura
- [Watusi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/watusi), United States: An American solo dance craze of the early 1960s
- [Lebang Boomani](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lebang-boomani-dance), India: A harvest dance from Tripura depicting the catching of colorful insects
- [Unyago](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/unyago), Kenya: A Swahili coming-of-age dance tradition for young women entering marriage
- [The Jerk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jerk), United States: An energetic 1960s American fad dance driven by sharp arm pulses and snaps
- [Theyyam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kothammuriyattam), India: A North Malabar ritual dance where performers become deities through song, paint, and headgear.
- [Tongyeong ogwangdae](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tongyeong-ogwangdae), South Korea: A five-part masked satire from Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea.
- [Tambor](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tambor), Venezuela: A coastal Afro-Venezuelan drum dance performed for secular parties and sacred rituals
- [Kasékò](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kaseko), France: A swift drum dance from French Guiana created by enslaved Africans
- [Gojinjo-daiko](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gojinjo-daiko), Japan: A masked Japanese drum dance from Nafune, born to scare off invading samurai
- [Twist](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/monkey), United States: A solo rock and roll dance from the 1960s where dancers rotate their hips while keeping feet planted.
- [Diablada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/diablada-bolivia), Bolivia: A masked Andean dance portraying a battle between devils and the archangel
- [Batusi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/batusi), United States: A 1960s go-go novelty dance known for drawing two-fingered V signs across the eyes
- [Kamilierikos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kamilierikos), Greece: A traditional Greek dance form
- [Grancharsko horo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/grancharsko-horo), Bulgaria: A Bulgarian folk line dance performed in an asymmetrical 9/16 rhythm
- [Liquid and digits](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/liquid-and-digits): A fluid street and rave dance built on body ripples and finger illusions
- [Kalymnikos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kalymnikos), Greece: A traditional Greek dance performed at communal celebrations and feasts
- [Mganda](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mganda), Malawi: A military drill dance of northern Malawi, performed in rows to drums and whistles
- [Gilbertese dancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gilbertese-dancing), Kiribati: A Kiribati dance tradition accompanied by singing and percussive wooden boxes
- [Sarai dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sarai-dance), Nepal: A weapon dance from western Nepal celebrating the mythical victory of the gods
- [Pony](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pony), United States: A 1960s social dance that mimics the motion of riding a horse
- [Square dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/western-promenade-dance), United States: A group figure dance for four couples arranged in a square facing inward
- [Breakdancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/wu-tang), United States: An athletic Bronx street dance of upright footwork, floor spins, and sharp freezes
- [Diablada](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/diablada-pillarena), Bolivia: A masked Andean devil dance portraying the struggle between Lucifer and Saint Michael
- [Social dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/participation-dance), United States: Partner, line, and group dances created for recreation, community, and fun
- [Drum dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/drum-dance), Canada: Ceremonial and social dances driven by communal singing and the pulse of frame drums
- [Papa Stour Sword Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/papa-stour-sword-dance), United Kingdom: A linked sword dance from Shetland depicting the Seven Champions of Christendom
- [Halay](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/toycular-yarcan), Turkey: An Anatolian and Caucasian line and circle dance linked by fingers, hands, or shoulders
- [Zervodexios](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zervodexios), Greece: A Greek folk dance from the traditional dance repertoire of Greece
- [Karsilamas](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/suleiman-aga), Turkey: A couple's folk dance in 9/8 time, danced face-to-face across Turkey and Greece.
- [Balan Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/baalan-dance), Nepal: A devotional story-dance from Nepal accompanied by the beat of the khaijadi drum.
- [Laudi Khela](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/laudi-khela), India: A rhythmic stick dance performed by young boys during the spring festival of Holi.
- [Zaharoula](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/zaharoula), Greece: A traditional Greek folk dance
- [Robam Neary Chea Chuor](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/robam-neary-chea-chuor), Cambodia: A traditional Cambodian folk dance performed by young women in vivid attire
- [Halay](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/akdagmadeni-halay), Turkey: A line and circle folk dance of Turkey and surrounding regions, danced at weddings with zurna and davul.
- [Eccentric dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/eccentric-dance), United States: An American theatrical dance style based on unusual, acrobatic, and comic movements
- [Chukano horo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chukano-horo), Bulgaria: A traditional Bulgarian chain dance with intricate footwork in a line or circle
- [Urban champeta](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/urban-champeta), Colombia: A sensual Colombian coastal partner dance moving to urban and Afro-Caribbean beats
- [Llanover Dances](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/llanover-dances), United Kingdom: Traditional Welsh longways dances nurtured at Llanover House in Monmouthshire
- [Country-Western Two-Step](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/progressive-double-two), United States: A travelling American partner dance done to fiddle and guitar rhythms
- [Muixeranga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/muixeranga), Spain: A Valencian street dance and human tower tradition honoring Our Lady of Health
- [Tricking](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tricking-martial-arts): An acrobatic discipline blending martial arts kicks, gymnastics flips, and dance moves
- [Opéra-ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/opera-ballet), France: A French Baroque stage form combining opera, singing, and extensive dance
- [Dainichido Bugaku](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dainichido-bugaku), Japan: Sacred masked ritual dances performed each January at shrines in Akita Prefecture
- [Russian ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/russian-ballet), Russia: A classical stage dance tradition defined by rigorous technique and dramatic expression
- [Comédie-ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/comedie-ballet), France: A French Baroque stage genre weaving spoken comedy with musical and danced interludes
- [Akiu no Taue Odori](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/akiu-no-taue-odori), Japan: A Japanese rice-planting folk dance kept alive in Akiu since the seventeenth century
- [Manipuri Sankirtana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/meitei-sankirtana), India: Devotional singing, drumming, and circular dance honouring Krishna in Manipur
- [Kaze no Bon](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kaze-no-bon), Japan: An evening harvest dance of hooded rows moving to plaintive strings in mountain streets
- [Azerbaijani ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/azerbaijani-ballet), Azerbaijan: Classical ballet training and theatrical stage repertoire from Azerbaijan
- [Pole sports](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pole-sports): A blend of dance and acrobatics performed on static and spinning vertical poles
- [Marchas Populares](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/marchas-populares), Portugal: A competitive Portuguese midsummer street dance and parade between neighbourhood teams
- [Gaga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gaga-movement-language), Israel: A sensory movement language and contemporary dance practice developed in Israel
- [Peruvian cumbia](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/peruvian-cumbia), Peru: A social dance danced to Peru's psychedelic fusion of cumbia, huayno, and surf rock
- [Yosakoi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yosakoi-matsuri), Japan: An energetic Japanese festival dance performed in teams with wooden clappers
- [Samba paulista](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/samba-paulista), Brazil: A rhythmic circle dance born in the interior of São Paulo and carried to the city streets.
- [Agwara](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/agwara), Uganda: A royal stick dance of the Alur people in Uganda, featuring ankle bells and mud-inspired movements.
- [Mambo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mambo-music), Cuba: An energetic Cuban dance born from the danzón that ignited a global craze
- [Set de flo'](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/set-de-flo), United States: A 19th-century African American contest dance performed inside a marked circle
- [Khual Lam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khual-lam), India: A Mizo shawl dance performed for honored visitors and at cultural festivals in Mizoram.
- [Konyali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/konyali), Turkey: A Turkish folkloric tune and dance in 4/4, shared by Greek and Turkish communities
- [Barong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/barong-mythology), Indonesia: A Balinese masked ritual dance dramatising the fight between good and evil
- [Crossroads dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/crossroads-dance), Ireland: An Irish outdoor gathering where neighbours met to dance quadrilles and step solo
- [Fire performance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fire-performance-indonesia), Indonesia: A collection of Indonesian fire dances ranging from ritual trance to graceful candle balancing.
- [Choreopoem](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/choreopoem), United States: A theatrical genre blending verse, movement, music, and song
- [Gambols](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gambols), United Kingdom: A brisk English country dance for four couples in a long line
- [Nagaradhane](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nagaradhane), India: A ritual of serpent worship performed in the sacred groves of coastal Karnataka.
- [Chorus line](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chorus-line), France: Synchronized theatrical group dance performed in musical theater, cabarets, and revues
- [Jamming](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jamming): An informal social dance where participants take turns showing off skills in a circle.
- [British ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/british-ballet), United Kingdom: A classical dance style known for exact footwork, pure lines and steady training
- [Lakhon nai](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lakhon-nai), Thailand: A slow Thai court dance performed by women in the royal palace.
- [Chimmanakali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chimmanakali), India: A satirical folk theatre of the Pulaya community in Kerala
- [Challenge square dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/challenge-square-dance): A complex modern western square dance requiring knowledge of hundreds of calls and abstract concepts.
- [Swang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/saang), India: A traditional Indian folk theatre form of storytelling through song and dialogue.
- [Haka in sports](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/haka-in-sports), New Zealand: Traditional Māori war dances performed by New Zealand national teams before matches.
- [Nautch](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nautch), India: A court and social dance of professional female performers in Mughal and colonial India.
- [Urban Kiz](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/urban-kiz), France: A partner dance from Paris that mixes Kizomba with Hip Hop and R&B rhythms.
- [Tango Liso](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tango-liso), Argentina: A simplified, Europeanized partner dance from early 20th-century Buenos Aires.
- [Sorathi Nritya](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sorathi-nritya), Nepal: A two-week Magar dance drama of Queen Sorathi, staged after Laxmi Puja
- [Clare Lancers Set](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/clare-lancers-set), Ireland: An Irish square set dance in five reel figures from County Clare
- [Ninabali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ninabali), India: A ritual dance in northern Kerala depicting the battle between goddess Bhadrakali and the demon Darika.
- [Folk dances of Sindh](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/folk-dances-of-sindh), Pakistan: Traditional group and solo dances of the Sindhi people in Pakistan.
- [Lakhon chatri](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lakhon-chatri), Thailand: An ancient Thai dance-drama featuring lively music, royal tales, and protective spells
- [Tiger dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tiger-dance), India: A traditional performance where dancers wear tiger costumes to enact the animal's movements.
- [La técnica cubana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/la-tecnica-cubana), Cuba: A Cuban contemporary dance form founded in 1959 that fuses African, European, and North American styles.
- [Babukung](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/babukung), Indonesia: A Dayak funeral mask dance from Central Kalimantan to guide the dead and banish evil spirits.
- [Mumming](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mummers), United Kingdom: A medieval tradition of masked house-to-house visits and festive drama in Europe.
- [Guajira](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/guajira-flamenco), Spain: A flamenco style adapted from Cuban peasant songs, danced with a fan.
- [Punking](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/punking), United States: A sharp, silent-film inspired street dance created by gay men in Los Angeles during the early 1970s.
- [Lengger lanang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lengger-lanang), Indonesia: A Javanese folk dance where men dress as women to honor harvest deities
- [Kai silambattam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kai-silambattam), India: A Tamil folk dance where performers shake metal anklets to create rhythm.
- [Kathak](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/krishna-legends-in-kathak), India: An Indian classical dance rooted in the storytelling and devotional lore of Krishna
- [Sua](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sua-folk-music), India: A harvest and festival circle dance performed by Gond women around a parrot effigy
- [Dorset Ooser](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dorset-ooser), United Kingdom: A horned wooden mask used in English rough music and Morris dancing processions
- [Tovlama](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tovlama), Iran: A lively circle dance of Azerbaijani and Assyrian communities in northwestern Iran
- [Banjar mask dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/banjar-mask-dance), Indonesia: A masked ritual dance of the Banjar people in South Kalimantan, performed for sacred ceremonies and harvest thanks.
- [Erutukali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/eruthukali), India: A ritual bull dance from North Malabar, performed for agricultural prosperity.
- [Tahona](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tahona), Cuba: An early Afro-Cuban carnival and holiday dance born in eastern Cuba
- [Sandiwara](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/toneel), Indonesia: A traditional Indonesian stage drama and dance form rooted in West Java
- [Passinho do Jamal](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/passinho-do-jamal), Brazil: A fast Brazilian street dance built on rapid, syncopated footwork
- [Parranda](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/parranda), Spain: A lively Spanish partner dance known for high leaps and quick turns in the air
- [Gandagana](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gandagana), Georgia: A traditional Georgian folk dance and song from the Adjara region
- [Areíto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/areito), Puerto Rico: A ceremonial song and group dance of the Caribbean Taíno people.
- [Tap dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tap-dance-technique): A percussive dance style creating complex rhythms with the feet
- [Paint Dancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/paint-dancing), United States: An American art craze combining dancing, paint, brushes, and paper
- [Chèo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cheo), Vietnam: A satirical Vietnamese folk musical theatre blending dance, comedy, and village songs
- [Pandav Lila](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pandav-lila), India: A village ritual dance-drama bringing the Mahabharata to life
- [Trastrasera](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/trastrasera), Chile: A synchronized couple and group dance from the chilly Chiloé Archipelago
- [Kandeka](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kandeka), Angola: A Kunene martial tradition of stick fighting and slap boxing in Angola
- [Kebagh dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kebagh-dance), Indonesia: A traditional South Sumatran welcome dance with wing-spreading arm gestures
- [Elazığ dik halay](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/elaz-g-dik-halay), Turkey: A Turkish circle dance of the kochari family, performed in Elazığ.
- [Huiyen Lallong](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/huiyen-lallong), India: A Meitei martial art from Manipur using swords and spears that evolved into classical dance.
- [Reel of the 51st Highlanders](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/reel-of-the-51st-highlanders): A Scottish country dance created by a prisoner of war in Germany during the Second World War.
- [Ankia Naat](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ankia-naat), India: A one-act devotional theatre form from Assam, centered on Krishna and performed by a singer-musician duo.
- [Leima Jagoi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/leima-jagoi), India: A slow ritual dance of the Meitei people, performed by noblewomen and village maidens.
- [Paampu attam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/paampu-attam), India: A Tamil folk dance where performers mimic snake movements in a skin-like costume.
- [Shingle dancing](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/shingle-dancing), United States: A solo percussive dance performed on a small wooden platform by African American dancers.
- [Wai khru ram muay](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/wai-khru-ram-muay), Thailand: A ritual dance performed by Muay Thai fighters before a bout to honor teachers and ancestors.
- [Fwemba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/fwemba), Zambia: A Tumbuka warrior and victory dance from eastern Zambia, danced to drums
- [Ekombi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ekombi), Nigeria: An Efik ocean dance from coastal Cross River State in Nigeria
- [Khikhapa](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/khikhapa), South Africa: A ring dance of singing and drumming kept by Balobedu women in Limpopo.
- [La Grande Gigue Simple](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/la-grande-gigue-simple), Canada: A solo step dance from Quebec and Acadia performed to traditional fiddle music
- [Shoulder Pole Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/shoulder-pole-dance), China: A Zhuang folk dance striking bamboo poles against benches in farming rhythms
- [Mangaliba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mangaliba), Madagascar: A traditional social dance from southeastern Madagascar danced under the full moon
- [Dream Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dream-dance), United States: A ceremonial drum dance originating with a Dakota vision in the 1870s for peace among Native tribes.
- [Baile chino](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/baile-chino), Chile: A Chilean ritual dance of hopping men and flute players honoring Jesus and the Virgin Mary.
- [Mhande](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mhande), Zimbabwe: A Shona rain ritual dance performed by the Karanga people of Zimbabwe
- [Ludruk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ludruk), Indonesia: A folk dance drama and comedy from East Java depicting everyday working-class struggles
- [Ring shout](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ring-shout), United States: A sacred African American circle dance performed in a counterclockwise direction with clapping and shuffling.
- [Dancing for eels](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dancing-for-eels), United States: A 19th-century New York dance competition done for fish or money
- [Karakol](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/karakol), Philippines: A Filipino devotional dance and procession honoring patron saints during fiestas
- [Balos of Kythnos](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/balos), Greece: A vigorous Greek couple dance from Kythnos with continuous spinning turns
- [Robam Kenorei](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/robam-kenorei), Cambodia: A group dance of mythical half-human half-bird spirits in the Royal Ballet of Cambodia.
- [Lyrical ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lyrical-ballet), Russia: A Russian dance blending ballet technique with Soviet ballroom steps in a lilting style.
- [Gigaku](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gigaku), Japan: A masked drama-dance from Japan, performed in silent mime to flute and drum.
- [Balai dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/balai-dance), Malaysia: A harvest ritual dance from Terengganu performed around a decorated fruit umbrella structure.
- [Hahoe byeolsingut talnori](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hahoe-byeolsingut-talnori), South Korea: An irregular Korean masked dance-drama performed in Hahoe village to appease a deity.
- [Dodola](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dodola-and-perperuna), Albania: A Balkan rainmaking procession led by a child dressed in fresh greenery to invoke summer showers.
- [Mayan Deer Dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mayan-deer-dance), Guatemala: An indigenous Guatemalan ritual dance honouring nature and ancestral spirits
- [Kalamatianó](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kalamatiano), Greece: A Greek line dance in seven beats, moving from Kalamata to Cyprus
- [Wuju](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/wuju), China: A narrative concert dance form from China that tells stories through intricate movement rather than song.
- [Nos lowen](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nos-lowen), United Kingdom: A Cornish social dance night inspired by the Breton fest noz, featuring ancient folk dances.
- [Muchongoyo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/muchongoyo-dance), Zimbabwe: A Ndau acrobatic dance with stomping and drumming from Zimbabwe
- [Human tiger](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/human-tiger), India: A skin-painted folk dance from Nagpur performed by men during festivals.
- [Nayadikali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nayadikali), India: A hunting dance of the Panan community in Kerala, performed with bamboo sticks and a wooden puppet.
- [Dakkebali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dakkebali), India: A snake worship ritual dance in Udupi, Karnataka, featuring spiral movements and natural mandalas.
- [Choub Bazi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/choub-bazi), Iran: An Iranian martial stick dance rooted in historic sword combat drills
- [Okeme](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/okeme), Uganda: A jumping Lango folk dance from northern Uganda played on a thumb piano.
- [Venezuelan merengue](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/venezuelan-merengue), Venezuela: A Venezuelan partner dance with pronounced hip motion and a syncopated lilt
- [Guaracha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/guaracha), Cuba: A fast Cuban partner dance and musical form known for its cheeky, satirical verses.
- [Parichamuttukali](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/parichamuttukali), India: A sword and shield martial dance of Kerala's Syrian Christians
- [Italian ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/italian-ballet), Italy: The classical ballet tradition rooted in the pageantry of Italian Renaissance courts
- [Ngoma](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ngoma-music), Tanzania: A traditional East African dance form centered on drumming and hip movement.
- [Gay square dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gay-square-dance), United States: A modern western square dance tradition practiced within the gay and lesbian community.
- [Oryantal Dans](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/oryantal-dans), Turkey: A theatrical Turkish belly dance of fast rhythms, sharp isolations, and floorwork
- [French ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/french-ballet), France: A codified theatrical dance tradition born in seventeenth-century French royal courts
- [The Broad](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/the-broad-folk-custom), United Kingdom: A Cotswold Christmas custom featuring a bull-headed hobby horse carried in wassailing processions.
- [Jagoi](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/jagoi), India: The sacred and classical dance traditions of Manipur's Meitei people
- [Köçek](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kocek), Turkey: An Ottoman court and tavern dance of male performers wearing feminine attire
- [Camel Walk](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/camel-walk), United States: An American ragtime dance that evolved from a 1920s craze into a solo stage move
- [Sufi whirling](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/whirling), Turkey: A spinning meditation of the Mevlevi order, performed to reach spiritual connection with Allah
- [Trot](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/trot-dance), Cambodia: A Cambodian folk procession enacting a theatrical deer hunt to welcome the New Year
- [Green Corn Ceremony](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/green-corn-ceremony), United States: A renewal ceremony and new year festival of Southeastern Native American tribes marked by stomp dances and fasting.
- [Japanese flamenco](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/flamenco-in-japan), Japan: The Spanish dance tradition embraced, practiced, and developed across Japan
- [Puellae gaditanae](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/puellae-gaditanae), Spain: An ancient dance style of southern Spanish women famous in Roman banquets
- [Biguine](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/biguine), France: A Caribbean partner and street dance combining bélé drums with ballroom steps
- [Yaogu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yaogu), China: A waist drum dance from northern China, performed with energetic steps and shoulder movements.
- [Geta Dance Art](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/geta-dance-art), United States: A modern theatrical blend of Japanese dance, wooden sandals, and live calligraphy
- [Robam Sovann Maccha](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/robam-sovann-maccha), Cambodia: A Cambodian dance depicting the love between a monkey general and a golden mermaid.
- [Táncház](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tanchaz), Hungary: A casual evening of Hungarian folk dancing, with live music and no stage
- [Lakhon Khol](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lakhon-khol), Cambodia: A Cambodian masked dance drama performed by troupes in temple courtyards.
- [Hoodening](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hoodening), United Kingdom: A Kentish Christmas custom featuring a wooden horse carried by a hidden performer.
- [Saba dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/saba-dance), Malaysia: A healing ritual dance from Terengganu featuring animal movements around a coconut tree
- [Contemporary dance in Mexico](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/contemporary-dance-in-mexico), Mexico: A staged dance movement built in Mexico from the 1960s onward, mixing theatre with movement
- [Cinta Sayang](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cinta-sayang), Malaysia: A traditional Malay couple dance from Kedah, performed as an opening act for significant gatherings.
- [Dikir Barat Singapura](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dikir-barat-singapura), Singapore: A choral performance art in Singapore with a lead singer, jester and chorus.
- [Dakshayagam](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dakshayagam), India: A Kathakali play detailing the conflict between Daksha, his daughter Sathi, and Shiva.
- [Cotton-Eyed Joe dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/cotton-eyed-joe), United States: A country folk partner and line dance featuring heel-and-toe steps and clogging.
- [Atsiagbekor](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/atsiagbekor), Ghana: A traditional Ewe war dance from Ghana's Volta Region that celebrates military history through drumming and formation.
- [Tala-Maddale](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/tala-maddale), India: A sung debate performance in Karnataka and Kerala, blending myth and wit.
- [Gadhika](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/gadhika), India: A healing ritual dance of the Adiyor tribe in Wayanad, Kerala.
- [Letsina](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/letsina), Greece: A Pontic Greek circle dance in a seven-beat rhythm, danced by men and women together.
- [Welsh Morris dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/welsh-morris-dance), United Kingdom: A modern Welsh folk dance tradition featuring handkerchiefs and sticks, performed in longways formations.
- [Gōshū ondo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/goshu-ondo), Japan: A dance song from Shiga, led by one voice and answered by a shouted chorus
- [Eastern Joropo](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/eastern-joropo), Venezuela: A coastal Venezuelan joropo style played with bandolín, cuatro and maracas
- [Roda](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/roda-formation), Brazil: A circular formation for Afro-Brazilian dance, music, and martial arts in Brazil and Angola.
- [Nōgaku](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/nogaku), Japan: A paired Japanese stage form combining lyric drama and comic interludes.
- [Samba rock](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/samba-rock), Brazil: A Brazilian partner dance fusing samba footwork with rock and roll swing
- [Morris dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/joint-morris-organisation), United Kingdom: An English folk dance of rhythmic stepping and choreographed figures performed by costumed groups with bells.
- [Sanni Yakuma](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sanni-yakuma), Sri Lanka: An exorcism ritual with eighteen masked dances to banish illness demons
- [Chakyar Koothu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chakyar-koothu), India: A solo Sanskrit-Malayalam monologue performed by the Chakyar community in Kerala temples
- [Douga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/douga), Guinea: A ceremonial dance and song of the Mandinka people marking religious revival and social order.
- [Haste to the Wedding](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/haste-to-the-wedding-jig), Ireland: A progressive folk dance for sets of couples, performed to a lively jig
- [Kwagh-Hir](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/kwagh-hir), Nigeria: A Tiv dance-drama blending masked dancers, puppetry, and moral storytelling
- [Anyeint](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/anyeint), Myanmar: A Burmese stage dance weaving solo movement with songs and satirical comedy skits
- [Old Tup](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/old-tup), United Kingdom: A winter house-visiting folk drama featuring a hooded ram hobby horse
- [Chầu văn](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chau-van), Vietnam: A northern Vietnamese folk tradition combining trance singing, poetry, and dance
- [Polish ballet](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/polish-ballet), Poland: The stage dance tradition of Poland, rooted in the royal court and Warsaw theatres
- [Mardi Gras Indians](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mardi-gras-indians), United States: New Orleans Carnival tribes masking in hand-sewn beaded suits and feathers
- [Igbabonelimhin](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/igbabonelimhin), Nigeria: An acrobatic masquerade dance-theatre of the Esan people of Edo State in Nigeria
- [Twmpath](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/twmpath), United Kingdom: A Welsh barn dance named after the mound where musicians once played.
- [Old Ball](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/old-ball), United Kingdom: A nineteenth-century Easter hobby horse custom from Lancashire
- [Sebiba](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/sebiba), Algeria: A Tuareg new year dance and celebration held in the Saharan oasis of Djanet
- [Hachigatsu Odori](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/hachigatsu-odori), Japan: A Ryukyuan harvest dance performed in the eighth lunar month across Amami villages.
- [Ghantapatua](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/ghantapatua), India: A ritual dance by temple servants in Odisha, featuring a pitcher on the head and brass bells.
- [Treble jig](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/treble-jig), Ireland: An Irish hard shoe dance set to music in 6/8 time
- [Taipinggu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/taipinggu), China: A northern Chinese folk dance where performers strike a large suspended drum to celebrate festivals.
- [Old Horse](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/old-horse), United Kingdom: A north-eastern English folk custom using a pole-mounted hobby horse.
- [Pala](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/pala-folk-art), India: A Odia folk ballad performed by a small ensemble singing Puranic tales.
- [Puxada de Rede](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/puxada-de-rede), Brazil: An Afro-Brazilian theatrical folk dance reenacting the haul of a coastal fishing net
- [Luoshan dragon](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/luoshan-dragon), China: A massive dragon dance performed over twenty-five days by the shores of Shijiu Lake
- [Murga](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/murga), Uruguay: A musical theatre and dance form performed during Carnival with percussion and elaborate costumes.
- [Schunkeln](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/schunkeln), Germany: A communal swaying dance where people link arms and rock to the rhythm of a song
- [Shosagoto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/shosagoto), Japan: A theatrical dance genre within kabuki theatre, featuring narrative and non-narrative styles.
- [Chalypso](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/chalypso), United States: A 1950s social dance blending cha-cha and calypso rhythms.
- [Yapong dance](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/yapong-dance), Indonesia: A Betawi group dance from Jakarta created in 1977 to welcome Prince Jayakarta.
- [Dramyin Cham](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dramyin-cham), Bhutan: A masked monastic dance in Bhutan where the lead dancer plays a lute to keep time.
- [Taranto](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/taranto-flamenco-style), Spain: A rhythmic flamenco form from the mining heritage of Almería
- [Anglaise](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/anglaise), United Kingdom: A group social dance of English origin, popular in French and European courts during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- [Charme](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/charme), Brazil: A smooth street dance from Brazil that grew out of soul and R&B parties in the early 1980s.
- [Mummers' play](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/mummers-play), United Kingdom: Seasonal folk drama of combat, cure, and swordplay staged door to door
- [Lakhey](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/lakhey), Nepal: A masked demon dance performed in Kathmandu streets during the Indra Jatra festival.
- [Rondeña](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/rondena), Spain: A lyrical Andalusian flamenco form shaped by mountain fandango roots and solo guitar
- [The Freddie](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/freddie), United States: A stationary jumping jack dance from the mid-1960s.
- [Dongnae yaryu](https://everyghunghroo.com/d/dongnae-yaryu), South Korea: A Korean outdoor masked dance-drama of satire, community parade, and celebration.