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| x Lindy Hop |
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8 | Jazz |
The Lindy Hop is an African American dance, based on the popular Charleston and named for Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing in 1927. It evolved in New York City in the 1920s and '30s and originally evolved with the jazz music of that time. Lindy...
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| x Charleston |
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8 | Big band |
The Charleston is a dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called The Charleston by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the...
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| x East Coast Swing |
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6 | Jump blues |
East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance that evolved from the Lindy Hop with the work of the Arthur Murray dance studios in the 1940s. East Coast Swing can be referred to by many different names in different regions of the United...
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| x West Coast Swing |
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8 | Rock music |
West Coast Swing (WCS) is a partner dance derived from Lindy Hop. It is characterised by a distinctive elastic look that results from its basic extension-compression technique of partner connection, and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the...
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| x Balboa | 8 |
Balboa today is commonly used as a general term for dances that come from southern California during the 1920s and 1930s, which makes the history very obscure. Most of the original Balboa dancers have passed and many of the swing dancers that...
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| x Blues dance | Rhythm and blues |
Blues dancing is a modern term used to describe a family of historical dances that developed alongside and danced to blues music, or the contemporary dances that are danced in that aesthetic. Amateur Dancer carried an article titled "Blues and...
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| x Contra dance |
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Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) refers to several partnered folk dance styles, sometimes described as New England folk dance, in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length. Contra dances...
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| x Céilidh |
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A céilidh (Irish pronunciation: [ˈceːlʲiː], Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈcʰeːli], English pronunciation: /ˈkeɪli/) (in modern usage) is a traditional Gaelic social dance originating in Ireland and Scotland, but now common throughout the Celtic...
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| x Square dance |
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Square dance is a folk dance with four couples (eight dancers) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, beginning with Couple 1 facing away from the music and going counter-clockwise until getting to Couple 4. Couples 1 and 3 are known as...
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| x Breakdance |
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B-boying or breaking, commonly referred to as breakdancing, is a style of dance that evolved as part of hip-hop culture among Black and Latino American youths in the South Bronx of New York City during the 1970s. It is danced to both hip-hop and...
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| x Melbourne Shuffle | Hardstyle |
The Melbourne shuffle is a style of dance. The Melbourne shuffle originated in the late 1980s in the Melbourne underground scene. The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic...
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| x Belly dance |
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Belly dance is a Western term for a traditional Arab dance genre known as raqs sharqi (Arabic: رقص شرقي; literally "oriental dance") or sometimes raqs baladi (Arabic: رقص بلدي; literally "dance of country", and so "folk" dance). It is also...
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| x Hip Hop |
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Hip hop is a cultural movement that developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among Black Americans and Latino Americans. It was DJ Afrika Bambaataa that outlined the five pillars of hip-hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking, graffiti writing,...
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| x Salsa |
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8 | Salsa erotica |
Salsa is a dance for Salsa music created by Spanish-speaking people from the Caribbean. Salsa dancing mixes African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa: Son, Guaguancó, Rumba, Boogaloo,...
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| x Argentine Tango |
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Argentine tango is a social dance and a musical genre that originated in Argentina and Uruguay. In the US, it is commonly confused with ballroom tango, though this is a later derivation.
Argentine tango consists of a variety of styles that developed...
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| x Ballroom dance |
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Swing |
Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the globe. Its performance and entertainment aspects are also widely enjoyed on stage, in film, and on television.
Ballroom dance may refer to...
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| x Tango |
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Tango music |
Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after.
Early tango was known as tango criollo, or simply tango. Today, there are...
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