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Dance is such an amazing way to express yourself, have fun and keep fit. The beautiful shapes you make with your body, the unexpected connections you have with the music, environment and props. You can express your story, your feeling and uplift others. Just as a singer does with their voice.

We have so many different dance styles around the world. What you may be drawn to I may not. There is Cultural dance based on nationalities and places in the world like Indian, Chinese, Russian and African dance. Then, there is extension of that rooting out to more options and slight variations of the same dance but with different counts and rhythms. You normally have the traditional dance style extending to a more modern dance style of the same dance for your current era. There are time zone dances, example in the 1920’s everyone was doing the Charleston, in the 1980’s breakdown became very popular. Nowadays, you have remixes of old dance steps which could be differently done just based of your region or state of a country. Example the New York shuffle and the Chicago shuffle.

When I was growing up there was just ballet, tap, gymnastics and disco. Disco then changed to modern jazz then contemporary became popular. As time went on, you had hip hop, commercial dance and street dance and now you have every kind of dance.

The computer games name dance steps after people. You could be doing the washing up with an extra grove and a few hips, someone loads it on the net and boom! You’re viral and everyone is now doing the “washing up” dance.

I was on a shoot the other week and we have to look at all these fortnite dances. I was impressed with the orange justice dance as this little boy was being bullied and that was his way of expressing himself and letting go. Now millions of people are doing his” Orange Justice” dance.

Anyway I could go on forever so will just leave it there.

Here are some dance styles, so, if you want to try a new social dance, class or just want to change it up know there are loads of options. I have keep it short, if I include every cultural dance, this would be a never ending list and as I upload this file, there will be more dance styles created around the world. But this is just a guide so chill and work with me 🙂

Last note, I added Freestyle, but it is your own as why it’s called freestyle. Your own interpretation of what you want or the direction given.

If you want some resource guides, check out Acting Resource Guide, Modelling Resource Guide, Entertainment Resource Guide, Music Resource Guide and Dance Resource Guide.

Dance

1. Acro Dance
2. African
3. Argentine Tango
4. Bachata
5. Balboa
6. Ballet
7. Ballroom
8. Baroque
9. Belly Dance
10. Blues
11. Bolero
12. Boogaloo
13. Break Dance
14. Burlesque
15. Calypso
16. Cha-cha-cha
17. Charleston
18. Cheerleading
19. Chinese Dancing
20. Commercial
21. Contact Improvisation
22. Contemporary
23. Cossack
24. Country
25. Cumbia
26. Dancehall
27. Dance Teacher
28. Danza
29. Disco
30. Egyptian Dancing
31. Exotic Dance
32. Extreme Dance
33. Flamenco
34. Flexing / Bone Breaking
35. Folk
36. Footwork
37. Foxtrot
38. Freestyle
39. Greek
40. Highland Dance
41. Hip Hop
42. House Dance
43. Ice Skating
44. Indian Dancing
45. Irish Dancing
46. Japanese Dancing
47. Jazz
48. Jitterbug
49. Jive
50. Jookin
51. Kizomba
52. Krumping
53. Lap Dance
54. Latin
55. Lindy Hop
56. Line Dance
57. Liquid
58. Locking
59. Mambo
60. Merengue
61. Modern
62. Morris Dancing
63. Musical Theatre
64. Paso Doble
65. Podium Dancing
66. Pole Dance
67. Polynesian Dance
68. Popping
69. Power Moves
70. Punking
71. Quickstep
72. Reggaeton
73. Renaissance Dance
74. Robotics
75. Rock & Roll
76. Rumba
77. Salsa
78. Samba
79. Showgirls
80. Stomp
81. Street Dance
82. Street Jazz
83. Swing
84. Tango
85. Tap
86. Tutting
87. Two Step
88. Vogue
89. Waacking
90. Waltz
91. Waving
92. Zouk
93. Zumba