Newly added
The latest dances to join Ghungroo. More arrive every day.
🇮🇩 IndonesiaJaiponganᮏᮄᮕᮧᮍᮔ᮪
A Sundanese dance from West Java blending martial arts and folk music.Folk dance · Group
🇫🇷 France and 1 moreCotillioncotillon
A square formation social dance popular in eighteenth-century Europe and America.Social dance · Circle
🇲🇽 Mexico and 1 moreQuebradita
A Mexican partner dance featuring a dramatic backward dip.Social dance · Couple
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 1 moreWaka waka
A Bolivian urban dance with layered skirts and bull bells, rooted in the La Paz department.Folk dance · Group
🇮🇩 IndonesiaHudoqTari Hudoq
A masked harvest dance of the Dayak people in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.Ritual dance · Group
🇯🇲 JamaicaDaggering
A Jamaican dancehall couple dance that acts out sex on the party floorSocial dance · Couple
🇺🇬 UgandaEkitaguriro
A Ugandan folk dance celebrating cattle and community milestones.Folk dance · Group
🇪🇸 SpainSiguiriyasseguiriya
A solemn flamenco dance form with a complex twelve-beat rhythm and tragic themes.Folk dance · Solo
InternationalPogo
A jumping dance linked to punk rock showsSocial dance · Group
🇲🇰 North Macedonia and 1 moreTeškotoТешкото
A Macedonian oro line dance expressing hardship through slow precision and fast leaps.Folk dance · Line or chain
🇧🇷 BrazilCapoeira Angola
A slow, grounded Afro-Brazilian martial art played in a circle with berimbau music.War or martial dance · Circle
🇬🇭 Ghana and 1 moreBorborbor
A social dance of the Ewe people, marked by handkerchiefs and communal celebration.Folk dance · Group
🇮🇩 IndonesiaWayang wongꦮꦪꦁꦮꦺꦴꦁ (wayang wong)
A Javanese and Balinese dance drama enacting the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics with stylised court movements.Classical dance · Group
🇧🇷 BrazilXote
A Brazilian partner dance derived from the German schottische, central to forró culture.Folk dance · Couple
🇵🇦 PanamaTamborito
A Panamanian couple's dance performed in a circle with drums and clapping.Folk dance · Circle · Couple
🇺🇬 UgandaBigwala
A ceremonial trumpet dance of the Busoga Kingdom in Uganda, featuring gourd instruments and processional movement.Ritual dance · Circle · Procession
🇬🇭 GhanaApatampa
A Fanti folk dance from Ghana that mimics a legendary encounter with a giant.Folk dance · Solo
🇫🇮 FinlandFinnish tangosuomalainen tango
A slow partner dance from Finland, danced in close hold with a distinctive rhythmic pulse.Social dance · Couple
🇮🇳 IndiaKanniyar Kali
A multi-night folk ritual dance performed by men in Kerala temples during Vishu.Folk dance · Circle · Group
🇺🇾 Uruguay and 3 moreCandombe
A drum-driven street dance of African descent in Uruguay and ArgentinaFolk dance · Group · Procession
🇬🇭 GhanaAlkayida
A relaxed Ghanaian social dance with side-to-side swaying and footwork, popularized by hip-life music.Social dance · Group · Solo
🇫🇷 FrancePassepied
A fast French court dance from Brittany, danced in triple time with light steps.Court dance
🇪🇸 SpainZapateado
A Spanish foot-tapping dance in six-eight time, known for its rhythmic precision.Folk dance
🇧🇴 BoliviaSaya
A music and dance form of the Afro-Bolivian people in the Yungas region of Bolivia.Folk dance
🇵🇪 Peru and 1 morePeruvian waltzVals criollo
A triple-meter dance from Peru blending European steps with Afro-Peruvian rhythm.Social dance · Couple
🇲🇽 MexicoJarana Yucateca
A paired folk dance of the Yucatán Peninsula, featuring traditional dress and balanced bottles on heads.Folk dance · Couple
🇦🇹 AustriaInternational Standard Waltz
A ballroom dance in three-quarter time, danced along the counter-clockwise line of dance.Ballroom or Latin dance · Couple
🇯🇵 Japan and 5 moreYosakoiよさこい
An energetic group dance from Japan using wooden clappers and modern music.Folk dance · Group
🇺🇸 United StatesElectric boogaloo
A funk street dance from Oakland using fluid leg rolls and sharp body hits.Street or club dance · Solo
🇪🇸 SpainRumba flamenca
A Spanish dance style born from Cuban rhythms and flamenco guitar.Folk dance · Group
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreLundu
An Afro-Brazilian couple dance with flirtatious roots and African rhythmsFolk dance · Couple
🇨🇴 ColombiaChampeta
A rhythmic dance and music style from Colombia's Caribbean coast, born in the early 1980s.Social dance · Group
🇫🇷 FranceTourdion
A brisk French court dance of the sixteenth century, danced in pairs to triple meter.Court dance · Couple
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 1 moreReogꦫꦺꦪꦺꦴꦒ꧀
A Javanese dance drama featuring a massive lion mask carried by the teeth of a strongman.Folk dance · Group
🇺🇸 United StatesStreet dance
A social dance style born in open urban spaces during the 1970s.Social dance · Group
🇺🇬 UgandaLarakaraka
An Acholi courtship dance of jumps and spins performed at weddings in Uganda.Folk dance · Group
🇲🇾 MalaysiaDondang Sayang
A slow Malay dance drama of love poetry, accompanied by violin and drums.Folk dance · Group
🇫🇮 FinlandJenkka
A fast Finnish partner dance in two-four or four-four time, danced with runs and pivot turns.Folk dance · Couple
🇮🇳 IndiaGaudiya Nrityaগৌড়ীয় নৃত্য
A classical dance of Bengal expressing Hindu devotional themes through song and movement.Classical dance
🇫🇷 FranceBallet de cour
A 16th and 17th century French court dance form blending spectacle, politics, and geometry.Court dance · Group
🇫🇮 Finland and 5 moreLetkajenkka
A Finnish novelty line dance featuring a distinctive hopping rhythm and left-foot lead.Folk dance · Line or chain
🇮🇩 IndonesiaTopeng danceTari Topeng
A masked Indonesian dance-drama telling ancient stories through movement and gamelan musicDance-drama · Solo · Group
🇲🇽 MexicoHuapango
A Mexican couple dance on a wooden platform, accompanied by violins and strummed guitars.Folk dance · Couple
🇨🇻 Cape VerdeBatuque
A Cape Verdean circle dance performed by women with polyrhythmic clapping and singing.Folk dance · Circle
🇨🇭 Switzerland and 4 moreEurythmy
An expressive movement art that translates music and speech into visible form through gesture.Concert dance · Group
🇨🇻 Cape VerdeColadeirakoladera
A Cape Verdean ballroom dance in pairs, performed to a lively two-beat song.Ballroom or Latin dance · Couple
🇮🇩 IndonesiaPiring danceTari Piring
A Minangkabau plate dance from West Sumatra where dancers balance spinning ceramics on their palms.Folk dance · Group · Couple
🇪🇸 SpainMuiñeira
A lively Galician circle dance played on bagpipes and drums in 6/8 time.Folk dance · Circle · Line or chain
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Larakaraka: Tabwoch, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Siguiriyas: TheEaterofCorn, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ekitaguriro: Aubry Arihona, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Piring dance: Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Coladeira: Nicola Di Nunzio, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Eurythmy: Awslibrary, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Batuque: TenIslands, Public domain, source
- Huapango: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Muiñeira: Adrián Estévez ( Estevoaei ), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Topeng dance: Sudanto Ponco Sularso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ballet de cour: Attributed to Hieronymous Francken I, Public domain, source
- Reog: Dedesudiana265, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kanniyar Kali: Gangadasp, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hudoq: Taman Renyah, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gaudiya Nritya: Dr. Mahua Mukherjee, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Saya: JYB Devot, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Street dance: Eduardo de São Paulo, CC BY 2.0, source
- Waka waka: De los Ordoño, Ortega, Mendoza, Cahuana, Gomez, Holguin de PLATERIA, CC0, source
- Champeta: Lombana, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lundu: Johann Moritz Rugendas, Public domain, source
- Rumba flamenca: Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, CC BY 2.0, source
- Quebradita: Edil Villa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yosakoi: d. FUKA, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- International Standard Waltz: che, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Jarana Yucateca: Yodigo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Peruvian waltz: Manuel González Olaechea y Franco, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cotillion: James Caldwall, CC0, source
- Jaipongan: Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Candombe: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Finnish tango: Eric Sundström, CC BY 4.0, source
- Apatampa: Assilidjoe, CC BY 4.0, source
- Bigwala: Kateregga1, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wayang wong: Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Capoeira: Augustus Earle, Public domain, source
- Borborbor: Noahalorwu, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Teškoto: This illustration was made by Rašo . An email to Rašo would be appreci, CC BY-SA 3.0, source