Dances with alphabets

A
Aar Oyun (Gagauz)
Allemande (historical, court, baroque)
American Tribal Style Belly Dance
An dro or "En dro" (Brittany, in-round traditional dance)
Antikrystos (Greece), face-to-face traditional dance
Arkan (Ukrainian, Hutsul)
Ara (Kurdish folk dance)
Avant-deux or "Avant-deux de travers", (Brittany, traditional dance)

B
Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
Bagiye (Assyria)
Balboa (Swing)
Ballet, category, also known as classical dance
Ballroom dance, category
Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
Bandari (South of Iran)
Barn dance, category
Baroque dance, category
Barynya (Russian, folk)
Basse danse (also Basse-dance, Bassadanse, Bassadanze. French and Italian Renaissance dances)
Belly dance
Beguine, dance of Caribbean origin
Bereznianka (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia)
Bergamask (Bergomask) folk dance, from Bergamo, Italy
Bhangra
Bharatanatyam
Big Apple (Line dance)
Bihu dance
Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop)
Blitz (dance) - also known as Blitz Jive, Blitz Modern Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
Blues (Club dance, Swing)
Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European)
Bomba (African, Caribbean)
Bon Odori (Japanese)
Boogaloo
Boogie-woogie (Swing)
Bop, see Bop music, also ABA at List of dance organizations
Bossa Nova (dance) (Brazilian, see Bossa nova music)
Boston (dance)
Bourrée (historical)
Branle (Bransle) (historical)
Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
Breakdance
Bunny Hop
Butoh (Japanese)
Buyo (Japanese)

C
Cajun Jig or Cajun One Step (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cajun Jitterbug and Two Step, (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cajun Waltz (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cakewalk
Canaries dance (historical, Renaissance, court)
Can-can (Cancan, can can)
Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazilian)
Carinosa (dance of love) Philippines
Carioca
Carol (Medieval)
Castle Walk
Céilidh (Ireland and Scotland)
Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
Chacarera (Argentina)
Chaconne
Cha cha cha or Cha cha (Latin Ballroom Social)
Chamame (Chamamé, Argentina)
Charleston
Chumak (Ukrainian)
Chasapiko (Greece)
Cheerleading
Chicken Dance
Chodzony (Poland)
Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
Circle dance
Clogging
Cocek
Collegiate shag
Competitive dance
Conga
Contact improvisation
Contemporary dance
Contra dance
Cotillion (dance)
Country/western dance
Country dancing
Country/Western Two Step
Country Swing or Western Swing
Courante (historical)
Court dance
Cross Step Waltz
Cueca (Chile)
Cumbia (Latin, Club)
Csárdás (Folk, Hungarian; also variants in Slovak dances, Rusyn dances, (Ukrainian dances, Lemko dances))

D
Dance Dance Revolution
Dances of Universal Peace
Dabke (Levatine)
Dérobée (aka "dérobée de Guingamp", Brittany, traditional dance)
Disco
Dragon dance
Drifter
Drobushki (Russia)
Dera gay (Aruba)
Dubotanets (Ukrainian)

E
Dance Type Origin
East Coast Swing Swing, American ballroom United States
Eisa Folk dance Okinawa/Ryūkyū
Electric Slide Line dance United States
English Country Dance Folk dance England
Ethnic dance - -


F
Fad dance
Fandango
Farandole (Provencal)
Farruca
Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
Folk dance
Formation dance
Forró (dance from norhteast of Brazil)
Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
The Freddy
Frug
Freak dancing
Fysouni (Greece)

G
Gaida (Greece)
Galliard
Galop
Gankino (Bulgaria)
Gavotte (Brittany), Gavot (historical)
Gigue
Grizzly Bear
Guapacha

H
Habanera
Haka (Māori)
Halay (Turkish, Folk)
Hanter-dro (Brittany, traditional dance)
Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
Hasapiko (Greece)
Haytarma (Crimean Tatars)
Headbanging
Highland dancing
Hip hop dance
Historical dance
Hitch hike
Hokey Pokey, also known as Hokey-cokey, Okey-cokey
Hootchy-Kootchy
Holubka (Ukrainian, Hutsul, Bukovina, Carpathian Ruthenia)
Hopak (Ukrainian)
Hopak-Kolom (Ukrainian)
Hora (many named versions; folk, Israeli, Romanian, Ukrainian)
Horan (Crimean Tatars)
Horon (Turkish, Folk)
Hornpipe (Ireland)
Hula
Hully Gully
Hustle and its variant, New York Hustle (Club)
Latin Hustle
Humppa (see Music of Finland)
Hutsulka (Ukrainian, Hutsuls)

I
Ice dancing
Ikariotikos (Greece)
Intercessory dance
International folk dance
Interpretive dance
Irish dance

J
Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
Jazz dance
Jazzjive (Modern Jive, Club)
Jenkka (see Music of Finland)
Jig Ireland
Jig (Scottish country)
Jitterbug (Swing)
Cajun Jitterbug
Jitterbug Stroll (Line dance, Swing)
Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)
Joged (Indonesian)
Jota (Spanish dance)
Jove Malaj Mome (Bulgarian folk dance)

K
Kalymnikos (Greece)
Kamarinskaya (Russia)
Kandyan Dances (Sri Lanka)
Karagouna (Greece)
Karsilama (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece, Gypsy)
Kastrinos (Greece)
Kathak (India)
Kathakali (India, incorporates dance)
Kaytarma (Crimean Tatars)
Kazachok (Russia)
Kerkyraikos (Greece)
Khasapiko (Greece)
Kolo (Slavic)
Khorovod (Russia)
Kleistos (Greece)
Koftos (Greece)
Kolomyjka (Ukrainian)
Kopanitsa (Bulgaria)
Kotsari (Greece)
Kozachok (Ukrainian)
Krakowiak (Poland)
Krumping (Western U.S.)
Kujawiak (Poland)

L
Lambada
Lambeth Walk
Lancer (Quadrille)
Landler (Quadrille)
Laridé or ridée (traditional dance of south Brittany)
Latin dances
Lavolta
leJive (Modern Jive, Club)
Lerikos (Greece)
LeRoc (Modern Jive, Club)
Letkajenkka (also known as Letkajenka, Letkiss, Letka-Enka)
Leventikos (Greece)
Limbo (dancers pass under horizontal pole)
Lindy Chorus (Line dance)
Lindy Hop (Swing)
Line dance
Lion dance
Long Sword
Loure (historical)

M
Macarena
Madison (Line dance)
Malaguena
Mandra(Mandilatos)(Balkan)
Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin)
Marinella (Greece)
Mashed Potato
Matachin (Matachines)
Maypole dance
Maxixe (Social)
Mazur (dance) (Poland)
Mazurka(Poland)
Medieval dance
Melbourne Shuffle (Australia)
Menousis (Greece)
Merengue (Latin Club)
Mexican Hat Dance
Metelytsia ((Ukrainian), khorovod)
Milonga (see Argentine Tango)
Minuet
Mo'jive (Modern Jive, Club)
Modern dance
Modern Jive - umbrella term (Club)
Molly dance
Mohiniattam
Monkey
Morris dance
Moshing

N
Novelty and fad dances
The Nutbush

O
Oberek (also called Obertas or Ober, Poland)
Odissi (India)
One Step (Social)

P
Pachanga
Palo de Mayo (Nicaragua), Afro-Caribbean influence, not to be confused with Maypole dance
Partner dance
Participation dance
Passacaglia (Passacaille) (historical)
Passepied (historical)
Pasillo
Paso Doble (Ballroom, International Latin)
Pavane (historical)
Peewee style (originated by Pee-Wee Herman in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)
Pentozalis (Greece)
Pidikhtos (Greece)
Kastrinos Pidikhtos (Greece)
Malevyziotiko Pidikhtos (Greece)
Pendozalis (Greece)
Pogo (A punk dance, consisting of jumping up and down)
Pogonisios (Greece)
Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical)
Polka-mazurka
Polonaise
Pony
Pols (Norvegia, Folk, see Polska)
Pom Squad
Polska (pl.: Polskor; Sweden, Folk)
Prophetic dance
Pryvit (Ukrainian)
Punk dance
Push (Swing, Texas)

Q
Quadrille
Quickstep (Ballroom)

R
Rain dancing
Ramvong (Cambodia)
Rapper sword
Raqs Sharqi ("belly dance")
Rebetiko dances (Greece)
Redowa
Reel (Irish and Scottish)
Regency dance
Reggae
Reggaeton
Renaissance dance
Rigaudon
Rock and Roll
Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll
Rouga (Greece)
Round dance (two kinds: circular chain, couples)
Rumba (International Ballroom, American Smooth, Folk)
Cuban Rumba (Ballroom dance as of the beginning of the century, e.g., "The Peanut Vendor" piece)
Rhumba (heavily overlaps with "Rumba", but some insist on distinctions in the usage)

S
Salon dance
Salsa (Latin Club)
Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round)
Samba (dance) (Ballroom, International Latin; also Brazilian traditional, see Samba (music))
Samba de Gafieira
Carnival Samba
Sarabande (Saraband)
Sardana (Catalonia)
Sattriya dance
Schottische
Scottish country dance
Scottish highland dance
Seguidilla (Spanish, folk)
Sequence dance
Serra (Greece)
Serviko (Serbian)
Set Dance Ireland
Sevillana (Spain)
Shag (Swing)
Carolina Shag
Collegiate Shag
St. Louis Shag
Shake
Shim Sham (Line dance)
Shimmy
Shuffle
Siganos (Greece)
Single Swing
Single Time Swing
Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (Greece)
Skank (dance)
Skip jive
Slängpolska (Sweden, Folk, see Polska)
Slip jig (Ireland)
Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom)
Social dance
Soft Shoe
Soraya ("Bellydance")
Sousta (Greece)
Bulgarian Sousta (Greece)
Cretan Sousta (Greece)
Dodecanese Sousta (Greece)
Macedonian Sousta (Greece)
Square dance
Traditional square dance
Modern Western square dance
Sta tria (Greece)
Stage diving
Step dance Ireland
Street dance
Stroll
Svarniara (Greece)
Swim
Swing (both as family of dances and as specific Texas dance)
Swing Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
Swing Roc (Modern Jive, Club)
Suzie Q
Syrtos (Syrto) (Greece)
Cretan Syrtos (Greece)
Kalamatianos Syrtos (Mainland Syrtos) (Greece)
Kapoutzidon Syrtos (Greece)
Nisiotiko Syrtos (Island Syrtos) (Greece)
Silyvriano Syrtos (Greece)

T
Table dance
Tango (Ballroom, Social, Club)
Argentine Tango - also known as Tango Argentino (Social)
Brazilian Tango - see Maxixe
Finnish tango
Chinese tango
Tap dance
Tap Charleston (see Lindy Hop)
Tarantella (Italian, folk)
Texas Tommy (see Lindy Hop)
Tik (Greece)
Time Warp
Tourdion (historical)
Traditional dance
Trata (Greece)
Treedancing (A special way of dancing on technoparades, e.g. loveparade)
Trepak (Russian, folk)
Tribal Style Belly Dance
Troika (Folk, Russian, Cajun)
Tropotianka (Ukrainian, Rusyn, Carpathian Ruthenia, Bukovina, Hutsuls)
Tsakonikos (Greece)
Tsamiko (Greece)
Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) (Çifte-telli) (Turkish) Greece)(Gypsy)(Arabic)
Tsirigotikos (Kythiraikos, Bourdaris) (Greece)
Tsyganochka
Tumba
Twist
Two Step
Cajun Two Step
Country/western two-step
Nightclub two-step - also known as California two-step, abbrn: NC2S
Progressive Double Two

U
Universal Peace, Dances of
Ukrainian dance
Upa or Upa Habanera, claimed by some to be the origin of merengue music and dance.
Uvyvanets (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia, Rusyns, Lemkos, Hutsuls)

V
Vals (Argentina, tango style)
Verbunkos
Vesnianka (Ukrainian, a type of khorovod)
Vintage dance
Volte (also Volta, La volta, or Lavolta, Renaissance)

W
Waltz (ballroom, social)
Boston (dance)
Walking Boston
Cajun Waltz
Dream Waltz
Elizabeth Waltz
Cross-step Waltz (Cross Step Waltz)
Five-step Waltz (Five Step Waltz)
Hesitation Waltz
Slow waltz - known as Waltz in ballroom context (ballroom)
Viennese Waltz (ballroom, social)
Waltz a deux temps (Waltz a deux pas)
Watusi (fad dance)
Welly boot dance (Africa)
West Coast Swing ("WCS"; Swing, United States)
Western swing (United States)
Classic WCS
Funky WCS
Sophisticated Swing (an older name of WCS)
Western promenade dance
Whip (Swing, Texas)
Worship dance

Y
Yablochko (Russian, folk)
Yerakina (Greece)
YMCA
Yakshagana (India, Karnataka)

Z
Zapateado (Spain)
Zeibekiko (also spelled Zeibetiko, Zembetiko, Zebetiko, and Zembekiko; Greece)
Zeibeks, Teke zortlatması (Turkey)
Zonaradiko (Thrace)
Zorba's dance (of Greek origin)
Zouk (Caribbean)
Zydeco (Louisiana, U.S.)