Date |
DANCE Type, Event,
Notes etc. |
1500 BCE |
Natya |
pre 700 |
** Greek writer "Homer" writes the
Iliad |
776 BC |
** Greece holds mid-summer religious festivals
at Olympia (Singing, Dancing, Competitions, Oratories, etc.) |
600 BC |
** Dionysus worship begins in Greece (believers
worshipped, ate and danced together, later men objected to women dancing
together). |
500 BC |
Mime
(AKA: Pantomime) |
550 BC |
Spanish
Dance |
441 BC |
** Euripides, (first choreographer),
incorporates dance into his plays. |
186 BC |
Bacchanalia
|
2-6 BC |
** Approximate birth date of Yeshua of Nazareth
(Jesus Christ). |
9th AD |
Farandole
|
40's AD |
Salome
|
200 AD |
Java Dance |
500 AD |
Raks Sharki
(Belly dance) |
500 AD |
** Middle Ages Begin: European historical period
between roughly AD 500 to 1450 (aka Dark Ages) |
500-800 AD |
** the Dark Ages begin: (aka Middle Ages) |
527 AD |
** A dancing girl named Theodora (d.548)*
married Emperor Justinian becoming the Byzantine "Empress. |
860 AD |
** Shiva Appears as the Lord of Dance (Nataraja) |
900 AD |
** Christian Church holds dance performances
on Easter Sunday services |
900 AD |
Cramignon |
1100's |
Espringall |
1100's |
Sarabande
(AKA: Zarabande) |
1200's |
Westphalia - (Waltz
Type dance) |
1360's |
Moresca
(AKA: Moorish dance) |
1387 |
** Geoffrey Chaucer writes 'The Canterbury Tales'
which adds bawdiness to stage and dance. |
1374 |
St. Vitus
Dance (see Tarentella) |
1400s |
Ahselroten (Shimmy type dance - Germany) |
1400's |
Basse
Dance |
1400's |
May Pole
Dance (Modern version 1880's) |
1425 |
Calata (AKA: Calate, Calado) |
1445 |
Le
Branle |
1448 |
Ballet
(First actual "ballet") |
1450 |
** Middle Ages end: European historical period
between roughly AD 500 to 1450 |
1450 |
** Moveable Type Face is invented, and the Latin
Bible is printed by 1455, dance treatise can now be printed enmasse. |
1450 |
** Renaissance period begins: (c. 1450-1600) |
1455 |
Conjé |
1463 |
Dance of Death appears |
1463 |
Torch
Dance |
1470 |
Ballo (see ballet,
court
dance) |
1480 |
Cinq-Pas
(AKA Galliarde) |
1480 |
Gagliarde
|
1480 |
Galliarde
(AKA: Cinq-Pas, Romain, Romanesca) |
1485 |
Rigaudon
|
1489 |
** Ballet becomes publicly known |
1500 |
Passe-Pied
|
1500's |
Alta Danza (AKA: Salterello,
also see Spanish
Dance ) |
1500's |
Batugue |
1500's |
Chacola |
1500's |
Dansas dos Espingardeiros |
1500's |
Danses dos Mariyos |
1500's |
Danses dos Pratos |
1500's |
Fulafranz |
1500's |
Salterello
(AKA: Alta Danza, Passo Brabante, Pas de Brabant, Breban,
Quadernaria) |
1500's |
Mazurka
(AKA: Mazourka, Mazur, Masur, Masurek) |
1500's |
Trotto |
1508 |
Pavane
(AKA: Padovana, Passemesa, Peacock Dance) |
1515 |
Courante
(similar to the Corrente) |
1520s |
Clog
(AKA: Des Sabots) |
1530's |
Tordion
|
1525 |
German Dreher (AKA: Walzer) |
1546 |
Padovana
|
1546 |
Passemesa
(AKA: Pavane) |
1549 |
Triori |
1550's |
Hautes
Danses |
1550's |
Minuet
|
1550's |
Passe-Mezzo |
1552 |
Canaries,
Danse de |
1556 |
Volta,
the or Valzer (original not the French version) |
1560 |
Chacona
(Guatamalan) |
1560 |
Firlefanz |
1560s |
** Term Peasant Dance appears |
1560's |
Pie de Jibao |
1560'S |
Sarabande
|
1565 |
Bourrée
d'Auvergne |
1565 |
Foliá |
1569 |
Bergamasca |
1570 |
Cushion
Dance (AKA: Joan Sanderson dance) |
1570s |
Danse de Donzellas |
1576 |
** First "Dance Theater" opens in London |
1580 |
Fuhrungen |
1580 |
Gavotte
(AKA: La Danse Classique) |
1580 |
Weller or Spinner (a Waltz) |
1588 |
Romanesca (AKA: Galliarde) |
1588 |
The book Orchesographie by Thoinot Arbeau is written and starts
'dance technique' |
1590 |
Nizzarda (similarities to Waltz) |
1597 |
** Opera Begins (Jacopo Peri's 'Dafne') |
1600 |
Espata Dansa |
1600 |
Espunolet |
1600 |
La Volte
(French) |
1600 |
** Renaissance period ends: (c. 1450-1600) |
1600's |
Allemande
|
1600's |
Baixia |
1600's |
Carica |
1600's |
Chaconne
(Spanish) |
1600's |
Corrente (Similar to Courante) |
1600's |
Dansas Habladas |
1600's |
Entrée Grave |
1600's |
Espagnole |
1600's |
Espanoleta |
1600's |
Gigue
(AKA: Jig,
Giga) |
1600's |
Schäfflertanz |
1607 |
** May 14, 1607 -- Settlers arrive at Jamestown,
VA. |
1608 |
Pavanilla Italiana |
1619 |
** First African-Americans land on American soil
to be sold as slaves -- Jamestown, VA. |
1620 |
** The Mayflower landing of the Pilgrims in Plymouth,
MA 11/9/1620 (aka: Plymouth Rock) |
1635 |
the Academie Francaise was founded |
1650's |
Les Contredanses
- French (AKA: Contredanse Francaise, Contradance, Contra Danza, English
Country Dance, anglaise or angloise) |
1650 |
Roger
de Coverly |
1661 |
** Louis
XIV establishes Académie Royale
de Danse |
1670 |
Bocane |
1670 |
Walzen or Walzer (AKA: Waltz) |
1670's |
** Pierre
Beauchamps defines five foot position |
1680 |
Lundu |
1681 |
** LaFontaine, the first woman to dance
professionally in a Ballet. |
1690 |
Ländler
|
1692 |
** Hysteria grips the village of Salem, Massachusetts,
as witchcraft suspects are arrested and imprisoned (May 1692.) Ordeal
finally ends in October. |
1700 |
** Raoul-Auger Feuillet creates first dance notation
system |
1700's |
Spanish
Fandango |
1700's |
Allewander (AKA: Allemande
) |
1700's |
Besola, the |
1700's |
Calenda,
The |
1700's |
Cotillion,
The |
1700's? |
Danse au Virlet |
1700's |
Fado
|
1700's |
Fofa |
1700's |
Fogueiras de S. João |
1700's |
Fricasee |
1700's |
Friska |
1700's |
Sicilienne |
1710 |
Royal Galliarde |
1710 |
Rigadoon
Royal |
1711 |
Forlana
(AKA: Forlane, Fourlane) |
1713 |
Pastoral |
1718 |
** New Orleans is founded by the French. |
1720 |
Ländler
or Hospur |
1720 |
Weller, The (a Waltz) |
1730 |
** Shakespears 'Romeo and Juliet' performed for
first time |
1734 |
** Marie Camargo raises dancing skirts above
the ankle (for better freedom to move) |
1735 |
** Ballet
arrives in America (Charleston, So. Carolina) |
1736 |
Arkansas
Traveller (AKA: Essence of Old Virginia) |
1740 |
Quadrille
|
1750 |
** Performers in Blackface appear on stages,
eventually minstrel shows begin. (also see 1830) |
1750 |
Strathspey |
1750 |
the Waltz
(see Walzen) |
1760's |
Flamenco
(AKA: Malagueña) |
1770 |
Strassburger |
1770's |
Shakers
Dance |
1776 |
** 7/4/1776 - United States Declaration of Independence
enacted |
1776 |
Viennese
Waltz |
1780 |
Bolero
|
1780's |
Furlana
|
1784 |
** Revolutionary War officially ends |
1788 |
** "Dancing The Slave's" on slave ships
recorded by Alexander Falconbridge |
1789 |
** First Inaugural Ball occurs in honor of President
Washington. |
1800 |
Galop
|
1800 |
the Valse
(Germany) La Valse à deux temps |
1800's |
La Badenowitch (AKA: Danish Waltz) |
1800's |
Balmoral (AKA: Scotch Schottische) |
1800's |
Basket of Fans |
1800's |
Boston Fancy |
1800's |
Bouffoons
(Modern version, not ancient Greek version) |
1800's |
Boulangère, La |
1800's |
La Danse des 'Brandons' |
1800's |
Buck
and Wing |
1800's |
Cascaron |
1800's |
Chahut |
1800's |
Czardas |
1800's |
Firlefei (also Virlefei) |
1800's |
Friss |
1800's |
Krocan |
1800's |
Paseo
Doble |
1800's |
Ta-Toa |
1800's |
Trenchmore, the |
1800's |
Tyrolene |
1800's |
Les Varities Parisienne |
1800's |
Waltz a Cinque Temps |
1803 |
Romaiika |
1809 |
German, The (AKA: Cotillion
Waltz) |
1812 |
German Drekkar (AKA: Imperial Waltz) |
1812 |
English Imperial Waltz (AKA: German Drekkar) |
1816 |
Mazy Waltz |
1820 |
English Contra Dance (see Les
Contredanses ) |
1820 |
Lancers
|
1820's |
Hop Waltz
(AKA: La Sauteuse, Old Waltz, New Spring Waltz and Waltz á
trois temps) |
1820's |
La Sauteuse
(AKA: Hop Waltz) |
1820's |
New Spring
Waltz (AKA: Hop Waltz) |
1820's |
Waltz
á trois temps (AKA: Hop Waltz) |
1822 |
Can-Can
|
1822 |
Polka
|
1825 |
** Romanticism period begins: (c. 1825-1900) |
1828 |
Jim Crow
Dance appears (Thomas
Dartmouth Rice) |
1830 |
Redowa
(AKA: Redjovet) |
1830 |
Virginia
Reel |
1830's |
Cracovienne (AKA: Kracovienne) |
1830's |
** Minstrel shows appear in the U.S. The Virginia
Minstrels appear in 1842 and start a sensation. |
1830's |
Valse
a deux Temps |
1833 |
La Casseralla |
1834 |
Boston
(AKA: American and Glide Waltz) |
1836 |
Cachucha
|
1839 |
New Polski Mazuorka (see mazurka) |
1839 |
Tarentella
(AKA: St. Vitus Dance) |
1840 |
Columbine Waltz |
1840 |
** Master
Juba Appears |
1840 |
** Photography is invented |
1840 |
Schottishe Waltz (a Polka) |
1840 |
Tap
Dance |
1840 |
Trottartt |
1840's |
** Burlesque Shows start to appear |
1842 |
La
Cellarius |
1844 |
** First Music House opens (Mr. Thomas
Rouse extends his London public house "the Eagle Tavern"
for music, singing and Dancing)
|
1845 |
Pattin'
Juba (May be older) |
1846 |
Dance of the Shadows |
1846 |
Eccentric-Can
Can |
1848 |
Apollo
Dance (Ballet
Version) |
1849 |
Five
Step |
1849 |
Schottische
|
1850 |
A
La Mode |
1850 |
Cakewalk
|
1850 |
Varsovienne
|
1850's |
Merengue
|
1850's |
Rheinlander (AKA: Schottische) |
1850's |
Serious Family Polka |
1850's |
Sicillian,
La (AKA: Sicilliana) |
1851 |
Cerrito
Schottische |
1858 |
Dance After The Husking |
1860's |
** 1st American style Burlesque House appears
... Mr. Michael Bennett Leavitt changes his format from plays, skits
and farces into the "burlesque show." |
1860's |
Barn
Dance |
1860's? |
Habanara
|
1860's |
Milonga
(AKA: Tango
, Andalusan
) |
1860's |
Napoleonienne |
1860's |
Walk Around (... see cakewalk) |
1860's |
Waltz La Veilers |
1861 |
** Miss Adah Isaac Menken burlesque dance
costume fully bares her legs on stage, abandoning tights. |
1863 |
Stag
Dance |
1866 |
** Stage production of "The Black Crook"
opens. |
1866 |
Gitana Waltz |
1866 |
Valse L' Americain (French version of the American
Waltz) |
1868 |
** Burlesque successfully arrives in U.S. with
Lydia Thompson at New York's Woods Theater |
1869 |
** The Folies Bergere officially opens in France |
1870's |
Balance Waltz (AKA: Two
Step) |
1870's |
Maxixe
|
1874 |
Glide Waltz (AKA: Boston) |
1875 |
** Strip Tease is Born (Le Divan Fayouau, in
the 'Rue des Martyrs,' France, removes most of her clothing one piece
at a time.) |
1876 |
Hootchy
- Cootchy Dance (AKA: Hootchie Cootchie, Hootchie, Hoochi Coochi,
Hooch
dance) |
1876 |
Skirt
Dance |
1878 |
** Musical Comedy begins |
1879 |
Danzon |
1879 |
Fascination Waltz |
1879 |
Redowa
Glissade |
1880 |
Virginia
Reel |
1880's |
American Gavotte |
1880's |
Ashland Polka |
1880's |
Bamboula |
1880's |
Buzzard
Lope |
1880's |
Cadet Waltz |
1880's |
Carlton, The |
1880's |
Celtic, The |
1880's |
Columbia, The |
1880's |
Combination Polka |
1880's |
Counjaille |
1880's |
Coquette |
1880's |
Esmerelda Waltz |
1880's |
Eugenie Waltz |
1880's |
Hesitation
Waltz (or Valse Boston) |
1880s |
** Ragtime is born |
1880's |
Soft
Shoe (also see
Tap Dance, Virginia
Essence) |
1881 |
** Cabaret (Le Chat Noir) and leads into Vaudeville
by 1883 (Tony Pastors) |
1881 |
College Step Waltz (4/10/1881 -ASPD) |
1882 |
Five Step Waltz |
1883 |
Azalea, The |
1883 |
Xylophone Polka |
1884 |
Boston Dip |
1885 |
College Polka (AKA: Collegiate
Polka) |
1887 |
** Hollywood, California is named & Co-Founded
by Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge |
1888 |
Berlin, The |
1888 |
Knickerbocker
Waltz |
1888 |
Newport Dance |
1888 |
Three Step Galop |
1889 |
** Cakewalk finally becomes fashionable with
Sam T. Jacks Creole Show |
1890 |
Ballin'
The Jack |
1890? |
Break
Down |
1890 |
Heel
& Toe Polka |
1890 |
Mesemba (Samba) |
1890 |
Rye Waltz |
1890 |
Three Step |
1890 |
Two Step
|
1890's |
One Step
|
1890's |
Scarf Dance |
1890's |
Shadow Dance |
1890's |
Slow
Drag |
1890's |
Square
Dance |
1890's |
Tango
|
1890s |
** Uncle Tom's Cabin premieres |
1892 |
Serpentine
Dance |
1893 |
** Little
Egypt dances at the Worlds Colombian Exposition in Chicago, Sol
Bloom coins term Belly Dancing here |
1893 |
** Oscar Wilde realeases his play entitled "Salome" |
1895 |
Cloak
Dance |
1895 |
Irene Skipping Rope Dance (later became "Double Dutch") |
1895 |
Witches Dance |
1896 |
Passion Dance |
1897-1902 |
** American Gold Rush happens, spawns Saloon
hall dancers, the Can-Can and Hooch dancers like Diamond Lil, Diamond-Toothe
Gertie etc. |
1897 |
La
Czarina Mazurka (also Czarina Waltz) |
1899 |
** Isadora
Duncan Appears |
1900 |
** Romanticism period ends: (c. 1825-1900) |
1900s |
Beguine, The |
1900s |
Embolada |
1900s |
Shake and Quiver (Shimmy, Shimmy Sha Wabble) |
1900s |
Valse
Maurice |
1900 |
Apache
Dance |
1900 |
** Chorus Line Dancing begins with the
"Floradoa
Girls" (Sextette) |
1900 |
** Modern era beigins with DeBussey |
1900 |
One Step
|
1900 |
Tango
American (mouvet) |
1902 |
Irish Trot |
1902 |
Pasadena,
The |
1903 |
Betsy Ross Dance |
1905 |
Frat March |
1905 |
Mattichichi, La (incorrect AKA: Maxixe
) |
1905 |
Oriental Foxtrot
|
1906 |
Chicken
Reel |
1906 |
Dance Of The Demons |
1907 |
Cocoanut Dance |
1907 |
Ju-Jitsu Waltz |
1907 |
Whirlwind
Waltz |
1907 |
** the Flo
Ziegfeld Follies Begin |
1908 |
Boston Two Step |
1908 |
Edelweiss Glide Waltz |
1909 |
Abstract
Dance |
1909 |
Grizzly
Bear |
1909 |
Klapdanse |
1909 |
Texas
Tommy |
1910 |
Argentine
Tango |
1910 |
Black
Bottom |
1910 |
Buena Vista Tango |
| 1910 |
Credo Waltz (aka Rosevelts Gavotte)
|
1910 |
Open Tango |
1910 |
Walking Boston |
1910's |
Berceuse |
1910's |
Camel
Walk |
1910's |
Chicago, The |
1910's |
Congo Tongo |
1910's |
Fan Tango |
1910's |
Fish Walk |
1910's |
Kangaroo Dip |
1910's |
Parisienne Tango |
1910's |
Philadelphia Boston |
1910's |
Shim
Sham |
1911 |
Bunny
Hug |
1911 |
Castle Tango (The
Castles) |
1911 |
Cubanola
Glide |
1911 |
Gaby Glide
|
1911 |
Horse
Trot |
1912 |
Castle
Walk |
1912 |
Come To Me Tommy |
1912 |
Fox Trot
(might go back to 1905) |
1912 |
Irish Tango |
1912 |
Lame
Duck Valse |
1912 |
Nights of Gladness Waltz |
1912 |
Pidgeon Walk |
1912 |
Santley Tango (Joseph
Santley) |
1912 |
Whirlwind
Waltz |
1912 |
Three Step (AKA: Jazz Straight) |
1913 |
Ballin
The Jack is Introduced in the "Darktown Follies" |
1913 |
Bunny
Hug |
1913 |
Chinese
Ta-Toa |
1913 |
Innovation
Waltz |
1913 |
Newman Tango |
1913 |
Pavlova
Gavotte |
1913 |
Philadelphia Drag |
1913 |
Rumba
(AKA: Son, Danzon, Rhumba) |
1913 |
Throw Away |
1913 |
Vampire Dance, The |
1914 |
Aeroplane
Waltz |
1914 |
Aunt Jemima Slide |
1914 |
Canter Waltz |
1914 |
Castle Fox Trot (The
Castles) |
1914 |
Castle Innovation Tango (The
Castles) |
1914 |
Castle
Walk (The
Castles) |
1914 |
Cinquante-Cinquante |
1914 |
Circle, The |
1914 |
Clifford Trot, Clifford Walk |
1914 |
Congo Tango |
1914 |
Davy's Foxtrot |
1914 |
** The Denishawn School Opens |
1914 |
Dengozo Maxixe |
1914 |
Dortohy Waltz (Dorothy Dickson) |
1914 |
Evelyn Foxtrot (Evelyn Nesbitt) |
1914 |
Foxtrot Chasseurs |
1914 |
French Pericon |
1914 |
Kangaroo Hop |
1914 |
LuLu
Fado |
1914 |
Papaltatsa Maxixe |
1914 |
Pauline Waltz |
1915 |
Walking The Dog |
1915 |
Whirlwind
Waltz |
1915 |
Cincinnati Two Step |
1915 |
Negro Drag |
1915 |
Peabody
|
1916 |
Kathlyn Waltz |
1917 |
Jazz
Dance |
1917 |
** Mata
Hari is executed by a French firing squad |
1917 |
Samba
(AKA: Mesemba) |
1917 |
Toddle
, The |
1918 |
(Dance of the) Sand Dune |
1918 |
Shimmy
(has roots to 1400s) |
1918 |
Tickle Toe |
1918 |
Valse Maurice (Maurice
Mouvet) |
1919 |
** World War One (WWI) ends |
1919 |
Chicken Walk |
1919 |
Crap Shooters |
1919 |
** The "Great Migration" begins in
full force (Southern Blacks migrate to Northern Cities) |
1919 |
Shimmy
|
1920 |
Castillian Foxtrot |
1920 |
Tango Valse |
1920's |
Arizona Hike |
1920's |
Bambouca
|
1920's |
Bowery Tap |
1920's |
Break
Away |
1920's |
Bull Frog Hop |
1920's |
Civa Dance |
1920's |
Collegiate,
the |
1920's |
Collegiate
Foxtrot (Later became Texas
Two Step) |
1920's |
Collegiate
Glide |
1920's |
Cootie Tickle |
1920's |
Cutting In (AKA: Memphis Tapping Novelty Dance) |
1920's |
Czarina
Waltz |
1920's |
Doin' The Racoon (AKA: Racoon Dance) |
1920's |
Eagle
Rock |
1920's |
Varsity
Drag |
1921 |
Baltimore
Buzz (introduced in "Shuffle Along") |
1921 |
Footloose Strut |
1921 |
Java, The |
1921 |
Marimba Waltz |
1921 |
Schottische Espagnole |
1921 |
** Broadway Show 'Shuffle Along' Opens |
1921 |
Talmadge Foxtrot |
1921 |
Toddle
|
1922 |
Charleston
(may go back to 1866) actually 1905, but opens with 'Runnin'
Wild' in 1922 became popular. |
1923 |
** Cotton Club Opens in New York |
1923 |
Sugar Foot - Stomp (AKA: Sugar Foot, Flea Hop, part of Mooch
and Sugar, Shag, Swing) |
1923 |
The Tucker Dance |
1924 |
Blues Trot, The |
1924 |
Break-Away,
published 1929 - (Pre-Charleston Lindy Hop) |
1924 |
Brother Low Down |
1924 |
Coodena, The |
1924 |
Dance-A-La-Graphonola |
1924 |
Indianola |
1924 |
Sonia Polish Dance (Polka) |
1924 |
The Strut |
1925 |
Collegiate
Shag (Aka: Flea Hop, New Orleans Shag, Sugar Foot) |
1925 |
Flea Hop (AKA: Collegiate
Shag ) |
1925 |
Princeton, The (Foxtrot Variation dance) |
1925 |
** Savoy
Ballroom Opens in Harlem |
1925 |
Sloppy Sailor Walk |
1925 |
Snake
Hips Dance |
1925 |
Sweet and Low Down (Tap) |
1926 |
** Martha Graham does first show |
1926 |
Tragico Tango |
1926 |
Wildflower Waltz |
1927 |
Kinkajou |
1927 |
Lindy
Hop (AKA: Swing, Breakaway, Jitterbug, Savoy Style) |
1927 |
** Miss Hinda Wassau is arrested for Stripping
while dancing on stage (see 1875, see shimmy) |
1927 |
Novelette |
1927 |
Six Eight, The |
1927 |
Sugar Foot Strut |
1927 |
Varsity
Drag |
1927 |
Yale Blues
Dance |
1927 |
Yankee Prance |
1928 |
** "Blackbirds of 1928" introduces
Earl 'Snake-Hips'
Tucker |
1928 |
Excuse Me |
1928 |
Pickin' Cotton |
1928 |
Silent Dance (used headphones) |
1929 |
** Black Thursday starts the Great Depression
(October 24) |
1929 |
** Bojangles
appears on stage in 'Hello' |
1930 |
Viper's Drag, The |
1930? |
Al Smith Hop |
1930 |
** Ann
Miller arrives on screen in Queen High |
1930 |
Hoosier Hop |
1930's |
Arthur
Murray Shag (AKA: Collegiate Shag, New Orleans Shag) |
1930's |
Boogie
Woogie |
1930's |
Bubble
Dance |
1930's |
Jitterbug Waltz |
1930's |
Calypso
|
1930's |
Carioca Tango |
1930's |
Carolina
Shag |
1930's |
Conga,
La (AKA: Conga Line, Barizillian Conga) |
1930's |
Dance Of The Doves |
1930's |
Doin' The Chamberlin |
1930's |
Doin' The King Kong |
1930's |
Double Shuffle Speed Swing (AKA: Fast West Coast Swing) |
1930's |
Jitter-Jive |
1930's |
Shim
Sham Shimmy |
1930's |
Saint
Louis Shag |
1930's |
Sugar Foot (AKA: Shag, Flea Hop, Swing) |
1930's |
Ya-Ya, The |
1931/2 |
Savoy Style Lindy (AKA: Smooth Lindy, West Coast Swing, Slow
Lindy) |
1931 |
Siboney |
1932 |
Dixie Stomp |
1932 |
** Radio City Music Hall Opens |
1933 |
Carioca
|
1933 |
Cha Cha
(later 1953) |
1933 |
Fan
Dance (Burlesque version not Oriental) |
1933 |
** Fred Astaire appears in film "Flying
Down To Rio" |
1933 |
Roosevelt Hop |
1933 |
Westchester, the |
1933 |
** Sally
Rands Fan Dance becomes a hit in Chicago |
1934 |
Champagne Waltz |
1934 |
Continental,
The |
1934 |
Jitterbug
|
1934 |
Truckin
|
1934/5 |
Balboa
|
1935 |
Piccolino |
1935 |
Veolanda (Veloz
& Yolanda) |
8/21/1935 |
** Swing Era begins with Benny Goodman
at the Palomar
Ballroom (actually Sweet's Ballroom:
Oakland is more correct) in Los Angeles, CA. |
1936 |
Big Apple
|
1936 |
(Doing The) Chamberlaine |
1937 |
** Ann Miller Appears in "New Faces of
1937" |
1937 |
** First National dance congress is held by
Tamiris |
1936 |
Suzy-Q
|
1937 |
Boomps-A-Daisy |
1937 |
Harvard Hesitation |
1937 |
La Bomba |
1937 |
Peckin'
|
1937 |
Peelin' The Peach |
1937 |
Ritz Carlton |
1937 |
Swing Waltz |
1937 |
Trocadero, The |
1938 |
Chestnut Tree (Spreading Chestnut Tree) |
1938 |
Cobra Tango |
1938 |
Doin' The Dopey |
1938 |
Lambeth
Walk |
1938 |
Mambo
|
1938 |
Palias Glide |
1938 |
Yam, The |
1938 |
Yolanda Tango (Veloz
& Yolanda) |
1939 |
** Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand
declare war on Germany. |
1939 |
Flirtation Walk |
1939 |
Floogee Walk |
1940's |
Back Bay Shuffle |
1940's |
Black Out Stroll |
1940's |
Boopsie Doodle |
1940's |
Dewey Dip |
1940's |
Draft-Away, the |
1940's |
Drum Dance |
1940's |
Furlough, The |
1940's |
Pachuko Hop |
1940's |
Peek-A-Boo
Dance |
1940's |
Trilby, The |
1941 |
** 12/8/1941 - United States with Britain
declare war on Japan. 12/11/1941 - Germany declares war on the United
States. |
1942 |
East
Coast Swing |
1942 |
** Gene Kelly appears on Screen in as "Thousands
Cheer" |
1942 |
Harlem Shuffle |
1942 |
Jive
|
1942 |
New Yorker, the (AKA: East Coast Swing) |
1943 |
Pass The Ammunition |
1943 |
Thumbs Up |
1943 |
** Broadway's "Oklahoma" Debuts
(Changes theatre forever) |
1944 |
Boogie Woogie Maxixe |
1944 |
Cobra Dance |
1945 |
** V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. Japan
surrenders to USA |
1945 |
Wiggle-Wobble |
1947 |
The Dominicana |
1947 |
Swing Trot |
1948 |
Eastern
Swing (AKA: East Coast Swing) |
1948 |
Western
Swing (AKA: West Coast Swing, Savoy Style, Hollywood Style) |
1949 |
Ballroom
Hula |
1950 |
Bristol Stomp |
1950 |
Funky Broadway |
1950's |
Boogaloo
|
1950's |
Bop
|
1950's |
Chicken Dance |
1950's |
Creep,
The |
1950's |
Dirty Dance (AKA: Sleazy Dance) |
1950's |
Duck Trot |
1950's |
La Charanga |
1950's |
La Bostella |
1950's |
Rock
and Roll (Swing) |
1950's |
West
Coast Swing (first use of the words ... called Western Swing
prior) |
1952 |
Stevenson Stomp |
1953 |
Bunny
Hop |
1953 |
Tennessee
Wig Walk |
1954 |
Champion
Strut |
1954 |
Jimmy Creepers |
1955 |
La Plena |
1955 |
Monkey,
The |
1955 |
Mule,
The |
1955 |
Pony, The |
1955 |
Shake, The |
1955 |
Stroll, The |
1957 |
Barman |
1957 |
The Bounce, |
1957 |
The Horse, |
1957 |
Jamaican Calypso |
1957 |
Skate, the |
1958 |
** Alvin Ailey establishes a dance theatre |
1958 |
Bossa
Nova |
1958 |
Twist
|
1959 |
Cumbia |
1959 |
Dip |
1959 |
Funky Chicken |
1959 |
High Life |
1959 |
Waddle |
1959 |
Pachanga
|
1960's |
Fish |
1960's |
Frug, The |
1960's |
Locomotion |
1960's |
Hitch-Hiker |
1960's |
Hully-Gully |
1960's |
Madison, The |
1960's |
Strollypso (Stroll and Calypso Mix) |
1960's |
Watusi |
1960's |
Wisk, The |
1961 |
Grapevine |
1961 |
Pillmore |
1961 |
** Vietnam conflict begins which finally ended
in 1975 |
1961 |
Popcorn, the |
1961 |
San Francisco Stomp |
1965 |
Do The Freddie! |
1968 |
Hustle
- Couples dance Birth, but not yet known as such. |
1970 |
Texas
Two-Step - Country Western (originally the 1920s Collegiate
Foxtrot) |
| 1970's |
Crip Walk |
1972 |
Hustle
(AKA: Originally called Disco Swing) |
1975 |
Disco Two-Step (AKA: Nightclub Two Step, NC2) |
1980 |
Disco Fox |
1990?s |
Casino Rueada |
1990's |
Lambada |
1990's |
Macarena (song by Los del Río in 1993, then dance 1996) |
1991 |
** The U.S, Supreme Court ruled that
states have the right to prohibit nude dancing in public venues |
1994 |
Country Line Dancing craze (second wave) |
1998? |
Hamster Dance (Computer animation) |
2001 |
Dubya Dance (Computer animation) |
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