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Wikipedia / Outline of dance

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to dance:

Dance human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer. Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as Folk dance) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet. A great many dances and dance styles are performed to dance music.

Description

Dance (also called "dancing") can fit the following categories:

an activity or behavior

one of the arts a creative endeavor or discipline.

  • one of the performing arts.

  • Hobby regular activity or interest that is undertaken for pleasure, typically done during one's leisure time.

  • Exercise bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.

  • Sport—bodily activity that displays physical exertion

  • Recreation leisure time activity

  • Ritual

Some other things can be named "dance" metaphorically; see dance (disambiguation)

Types of dance

Type of dance a particular dance or dance style. There are many varieties of dance. Dance categories are not mutually exclusive. For example, tango is traditionally a partner dance. While it is mostly social dance, its ballroom form may be competitive dance, as in DanceSport. At the same time it is enjoyed as performance dance, whereby it may well be a solo dance.

List of dances

Dance genres

Belly dance

Competitive dance

Disco

Dance styles by number of interacting dancers

  • Solo dance a dance danced by an individual dancing alone.

Partner dance dance with just 2 dancers, dancing together. In most partner dances, one, typically a man, is the leader; the other, typically a woman, is the follower. As a rule, they maintain connection with each other. In some dances the connection is loose and called dance handhold. In other dances the connection involves body contact.

  • Glossary of partner dance terms

  • Group dance dance danced by a group of people simultaneously. Group dances are generally, but not always, coordinated or standardized in such a way that all the individuals in the group are dancing the same steps at the same time. Alternatively, various groups within the larger group may be dancing different, but complementary, parts of the larger dance.

Dance styles by main purpose

Geography of dance (by region)

  1. Africa

    1. West Africa

      1. Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo

      North Africa

      1. Algeria • Egypt (Ancient Egypt) • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • South Sudan •Tunisia • Western Sahara

      Central Africa

      1. Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • The Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe

      East Africa

      1. Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe

      Southern Africa

      1. Botswana • Eswatini • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa

      Dependencies

      1. Mayotte(France) • St. Helena(UK) • Puntland • Somaliland • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

    Antarctica

    1. None

    Asia

    1. Central Asia

      1. Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan

      East Asia

      1. China

        1. Tibet

        2. Hong Kong • Macau

        Japan • North Korea • South Korea • Mongolia • Taiwan

      North Asia

      1. Russia

      Southeast Asia

      1. Brunei • Burma (Myanmar) • Cambodia • East Timor (Timor-Leste) • Indonesia • Laos • Malaysia • Philippines • Singapore • Thailand • Vietnam

      South Asia

      1. Afghanistan • Bangladesh • Bhutan • Iran • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka

      2. India

      West Asia

      1. Armenia • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Cyprus (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • Palestinian territories Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Yemen

    Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)

    1. North Caucasus

      1. Parts of Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)

      South Caucasus

      1. Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia, South Ossetia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)

    Europe

    1. Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Faroe Islands • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Gibraltar • Greece • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Isle of Man • Italy • Jersey • Kazakhstan • Kosovo • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Macedonia • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia •

    2. Norway

      1. Svalbard

      Spain

      1. Autonomous communities of Spain: Catalonia

      Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine

    3. United Kingdom

      1. England • Northern Ireland • Scotland • Wales

      Vatican City

    4. European Union

    North America

    1. Canada

      1. Provinces of Canada: • Alberta • British Columbia • Manitoba • New Brunswick • Newfoundland and Labrador • Nova Scotia • Ontario (Toronto) • Prince Edward Island • Quebec • Saskatchewan

      2. Territories of Canada: Northwest Territories • Nunavut • Yukon

      Greenland • Saint Pierre and Miquelon

      United States

      Mexico

    Central America

      1. Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama

      Caribbean

      1. Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands

    Oceania (includes the continent of Australia)

    1. Australasia

      1. Australia

        1. Dependencies/Territories of Australia

          1. Christmas Island • Cocos (Keeling) Islands • Norfolk Island

        New Zealand

      Melanesia

      1. Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only) • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea • Rotuma • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu

      Micronesia

      1. Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (United States) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (United States) • Palau • Wake Island (United States)

      Polynesia

      1. American Samoa (United States) • Chatham Islands (NZ) • Cook Islands (NZ) • Easter Island (Chile) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (United States) • Loyalty Islands (France) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK) • Adamstown • Samoa • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)

    South America

    1. Argentina • Bolivia • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Suriname • Uruguay • Venezuela

    South Atlantic

    1. Ascension Island • Saint Helena • Tristan da Cunha

History of dance

History of dance

Dance styles throughout history

Dance technique

Choreography

Dance moves

Dance culture

Dance education

Dance in film

Dance party

Dance science

Dance science

Dance organizations

Dance-related media

Books about dance

Dancers

See also

Outline of music