List of dance style categories

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

Traditional dance

• Traditional jazz
• traditional African-American
• Afro-beat
• Native American
• Ballroom
• Boogie-woogie
• Breakdancing
• Cabbage patch
• Cakewalk
• Charleston
• Chicago stepping
• Crip Walk
• Detroit Ballroom
• Disco dancing
• Drunken Sailor
• Jitterbug
• Jazz dance
• Lindy hop
• Linya vrak dance
• Shuffling
• Slide and Glide
• Stomp dance
• Swing
• Tap dance
• Texas slidethrough
• Texas Swingout
• Texas Tommy

Dancehall dance

• Crowdsurfing
• Moshing
• Skanking

Experimental / freestyle

• Boogie
• Contemporary dance
• Dance de Gauthier
• Jump up
• Neonstyle

Street dance

Hip-hop culture

• B-boying
• Breaking
  • Footwork
  • Freezes
  • Powermoves
  • Toprock
• Bounce
• Clown Walk
• Detroit Jit
• Electric boogaloo
• Flexing
• Floating
• Jerkin'
• Jiggin'
• Krumping
• Litefeet
• Locking
  • Robot dance
• Lyrical hip-hop
• Memphis Jookin'
• Popping
  • Animation
  • Cobra
  • Hit Dem Folks
  • Liquiding
  • Moonwalk
  • Scarecrow
  • Strobing
  • Toyman
  • tutting
  • Waving
• Snap dance
• Turfing

Disco / electronic dance

• Disco dance
• Electro Dance
• Free step
• Grinding
• Hard dance
• Hardcore dancing
• House dance
• Hustle
• Jacking
• Jumpstyle
• Malaysian Shuffle (a dance that is similar to the Melbourne Shuffle but was created in California by children; became a trend for most middle school and high school students)
• Melbourne Shuffle
• Slothing
• Vogue
• Waacking

Pogo

• Hard Rock Pogo
• Metal Mosh
• Punk Rock Pogo
• Ska Dance

Historical dance

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

Liturgical dance

• Liturgical dance

Participative dance improvisation

• Contact improvisation
• Ecstatic dance (also known as freestyle dance and barefoot improvisational dance)

Folk dance

Balinese traditional dance, legong

• Perafic dance
• Regional Indian Dances
  • Bhangra
  • Dandiya and Garba
  • Mass
  • Punjabi
  • Rajastani
  • Semi–classical

Concert dance / performance dance

• Concert dance
• The Lucker Stomp
• Kpop/Jpop Dance

Latin / rhythm

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

Swing dance

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

Miscellaneous

• Acro dance
• Ballet
• Belly dance
• Bernie dance
• Bollywood dance
• Calypso
• Cheer dance
• Compas dance
• Contemporary dance
• Disco dance
• Fire dance
• Flamenco
• Flying Men Dance
• Greek Classical
• Hip Hop
• Kizomba
• Line dance
• Lyrical
• Modern dance
• Modern Imaginative
• Novelty and fad dances
• Performance dance
• Pom dance
• Reggae dance
• Salsaton dance
• Semba
• Soca dance
• Spinning, hooping and flow arts
• Tap dance
• Zumba

Further reading

• Carter, A. (1998) The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-16447-8
• Sharp, C. J. (1924) The dance; an historical survey of dancing in Europe. Rowman and Littlefield . ISBN 0-87471-105-3
• Thomas, H. (2003) The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-72432-1
• Feliksdal, B (2003) Modern Tap Dance, ISBN 90-807699-2-4 Bekebooks
• Feliksdal, B (2004) Jazz Dance Syllabus Jazz, Rhythm, Body and Soul. ISBN 90-807699-4-0 Bekebooks. Amsterdam, The Netherlands,Flamenco
• Feliksdal, B (2009) Urban Dance-Jazzdans, ISBN 978-90-807699-6-0 Bekebooks. Amsterdam,The Netherlands
• Shipter Fan, B (2009) "Urban Dance-Jazzdans", Bekebooks. Amsterdam, The Netherlands