Time | 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) |
| 1400's |
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: Saltarello,
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 |
Saltarello (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 |
Tiroir |
| 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 (Guatemalan) |
| 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, Contredance, 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 |
** La Fontaine, 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 |
Sicilliene |
| 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 |
** Shakespeare '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 Mazourka (see mazurka) |
| 1839 |
Tarentella (AKA: St. Vitus Dance) |
| 1840 |
Columbine Waltz |
| 1840 |
** Master Juba Appears |
| 1840 | ** Photography is invented |
| 1840 |
Schottische 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 |
Varsiovienne |
| 1850's |
Merengue |
| 1850's |
Rheinlander (AKA: Schottische) |
| 1850's |
Serious Family Polka |
| 1850's |
Sicilian, 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 releases 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" (Sextet) |
| 1900 |
** Modern era begins with Debussy |
| 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 Rosevelt 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 |
Dorothy 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 |
Bambuca |
| 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 Raccoon (AKA: Raccoon 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 |
Picken' 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, Brazilian 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 |
Floogie 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 |
Pachucko 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 Rio 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) |
| |
That's it for Now: |
| | PBS link: AFRICAN AMERICAN Dance TIMELINE |
