Irish Céilí Dances
Irish social, or céilí ( /ˈkeɪli/) dances vary widely throughout Ireland and the rest of the world. A céilí dance may be performed with as few as two people and as many as sixteen. Céilí dances may also be danced with an unlimited number of coup...

Irish Dance
Irish dancing or Irish dance is a group of traditional dance forms originating in Ireland which can broadly be divided into social dance and performance dances. Irish social dances can be divided further into céilí and set dancing. Irish set dances are qu...

Hokey Cokey Dance
"Hokey pokey" redirects here. For other uses, see Hokey pokey (disambiguation). The hokey cokey (United Kingdom) or hokey pokey (United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand), also known as okey cokey, or cokey cokey, is a participation danc...

Forró Dance
Forró (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɔˈʁɔ]) encompasses a number of Northeastern Brazilian dances as well as a number of different musical genres which accompany these dances. Although the music has gained widespread popularity in all of...

Buyō Dance
Buyō (舞踊?) or Nippon Buyō/Nihon Buyō (日本舞踊?) is a traditional Japanese performing art, a mixture of dance and pantomime, which emerged in the early Edo period (early 17th century) from earlier tradi...

Swing Dance
"Swing dance" is most commonly known as a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1950s, although the earliest of these dances predate "swing era" music. The best known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, a popular par...

Rainmaking - Ritual Dance
Rainmaking is an ethnographic term for rituals intended to invoke rain. Among the most well known examples of rainmaking rituals are North American rain dances, historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern Unite...

Eisa Dance
Eisa (エイサー Eisaa?) is a form of folk dance unique to the people of the Ryukyu Islands. Although it is performed many times throughout the year at various festivals, Eisa performances are concentrated around lunar mid-July. This...

Chicken Dance
The Chicken is a popular rhythm and blues dance started in America in the 1950s, in which the dancers flapped their arms and kicked back their feet in an imitation of a chicken. The dance featured lateral body movements, was used primarily as a change of ...

Concert Dance
Concert dance (also known as performance dance or theatre dance in the United Kingdom) is dance performed for an audience. It is frequently performed in a theatre setting, though this is not a requirement, and it is usually choreographed and performed to ...