StreetSwing Dance History Archives: DANCE INDEX:
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Dance Name Origin Date Creator / Choreographer Note: See Also
Baby Polka
n/a
c.1880s
Francois Paul
Polka
Baboon Baby Dance
USA
1910s
n/a
Ragtime Dance
Babrile
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Bacchanale
France?
1600s?
n/a
n/a
Bacchanalia
Greece/Rome
c.186 B.C.
Three Followers of the Jolly God Bacchus
Bracelet, Hymenaea, Labyrinth, Pyrrhic ,
War
Bacchu-Ber
Celtic
n/a
n/a
Armed Dance,
Pyrrhic ,
Sword
Dance , War
Back Bay Shuffle
USA
1940s
n/a
Jitterbug ,
Lindy
Hop , Swing, West
Coast Swing ,
Baile
Guatemala
?1600s?
n/a
n/a
Baile Con Corte'
Buenos Aires
18/1900's
Maurice
Mouvet Tango
Bailes llanos ó tonadillas
Castille, Spain
n/a
n/a
n/a
Baixa
Portugal
1600s?
n/a
Chacola, Mouresca ,
Villão, Fado
Baksimba
Uganda
n/a
Royal dance of Baganda
n/a
Balance Waltz
n/a
1870's?
aka: Two-Step
Fox-trot ,
Two-Step , Waltz ,
Walzen,
Balboa
Newport, CA.
1930's-1980
Rendezvous Ballroom. Named after the Balboa Pavillion
across from Balboa Island.
Balboa Hop, Flea-Hop, Bal ,Jitterbug ,
Lindy Hop ,
Shag , West
Coast Swing
Ballet
Italy & France
1448
Baltazarini di Belgioioso
Baroque, Ballo, Catherine
De Medici , Comique de la reine-1581, Louis
XIV , Horse, Opera,
Ballin'
The Jack USA
1890
Rail Workers, Darktown Follies
Baltimore
Buzz , Big
Apple , Danny
Kaye , Eagle
Rock , Rail Road Songs, Swing, Truckin
Balmoral, the
n/a
1800s?
aka: the Scotch Schottische, Highland Schottische
Couples dance, basically a Schottische
Ballo
Crete
n/a
(Crete Originally),
Ballizo, Cretan Sousta, Greece,
Ballo
Italy
1470
Carnival Songs via Heinrich Issak
Balli, Ballet ,
Balleti, Balletto,
Basse , Mime, Pantomime ,
Piva, Quaternaria, Saltarello ,
Spectacles,
Balloon Foxtrot
?
1922
n/a
Foxtrot
Ballroom
Hula Hawaii
1949-
Don Wallace
Hukilau
Baltimore, The
USA?
1910s
n/a
n/a
Baltimore
Buzz Harlem
1921
(also: Baltimore Buzz song by James P. Johnson)
Ballin'
The Jack , Eubie Blake, Boogie-Walks,
Shorty George , Truckin ,
Bambi Polka
USA
1941?
n/a
Polka
Bambuco
Columbia
1920s
Columbian Mestizos
Native & Ballroom
dance . Bambuca,
Rhumba ,
Samba , Waltz
Bamboula
Dance Africa?
1880s?
n/a (Place Congo?)
Babouille, Bamboo Drum, Calinda, Chacta, Congo, Counjaille,
Juba ,
Voodoo
Banana Dance
Paris
1925
Josephine Baker
Bubble ,
Fan ,
Risque, Scarf
Banana Peel Glide
USA
1913
Danced Like slipping one foot on a Banana Peel. Introduced
at the once famous Ragged Edge Clubin the east.
Texas
Tommy , Horse
Trot , Reno Glide, Tango Dream, Luncheon Lurch etc.
Banancello
Italy
1911
Modified One Step, Rolling Motion
Banda
trinidad
n/a
n/a
Oleke, Shake Dance, Shimmy
Barbary Coast Dance
San Francisco
1914
Gaiety Theatre (Rosey Posey Girls)
Burlesque, Bunny
Hug , Grizzly
Bear
Barn
Dance Scotland
1860-1899
aka: Pas de Quartre. Also slight popularity in 1910
in USA.
see square
dance . Cotillion ,
Jig ,
Quadrille ,
Round, Virginia Essence,
Virginia Reel
Baris, The
Balinese
n/a
n/a
Pyrrhic ,
Spirit, War ,
Basket of Fans
England
1800s?
Fan filled basket, fan picked by chosen Dancer
Cascaron
Basse
Danse Italy
14/1600
n/a
Ballet ,
Galliard ,
Hautes ,
Le
Branle , Saltarello ,
Stately
Bataclán
Argentina
n/a
derived from the Ba-Ta-Clan of Persia
Bataclana (dancer), Tango
Batugue
Portugal?
c.1500s
solo Afro-Brazillian circle dance
Lundu, Sarabande ,
Piva, Sama, Jacara, Samba
Bavarian Folk Dance
Germany
-
-
-
Bayadères India
n/a
n/a
Oriental
Religious dance. Augusta, Ballet ,
Kathak, Charles Simon Catel (1773-1830)
Bayan
Brazil
n/a
related to the Samba
Samba
Beatle Bounce
USA
1960s
1960's Fad Dance
See 5/1964 Ballroom Dance Mag
Beaver Dance
USA
1600-
Blackfeet Indians
n/a
Beckett
Marta
1930s
now owns Amargosa Opera House - Death Valley
Ballet
Bee, The
Egyptian
1800's
portrays being stung by a bee.
n/a
Beguine, The
So. America
1900's?
n/a
(now a variation of the Foxtrot )
Belly
Dance Cadiz?
500's AD
n/a
Burlesque ,
Cancan ,
Danse du ventre, Exotic, Hootchy ,
Kathak, Oriental ,
Rak Sharki, Raks, Salome ,
Strip,
Berceuse
England
c.1910s
n/a
aka: Cradle Boston, Drop Step, Long Boston, One Step
Waltz, Philadelphia,
Bergamasca
Bergamo
1569
n/a
Round Dance, Midsummer Nights Dream
Berlin, The
Germany
1888
M.B. Gilbert
(Polka
& Galop
Mix), Pas de Quatre, Alsacian
Besola
French?
1700s?
Lucretia Borgia danced this
n/a
Betsy Ross Dance
New York?
1903?
n/a
Little Anita, Silent Film, Garter
Bhangra
Punjab, India
n/a
Indian Punjabi Baisakhi festival.
Giddha, Jhummer,
Bharata Natyam
India
?400 B.C
Sage Bharata
Belly ,
Bhatki, Ethnic, Hula ,
Kathak, Lord Brahma, Veda, Veil, Mythology ,
Oriental , Sadir,
Shiva,
Big
Apple So. Carolina
1936
Big Apple Night Club
Square
Dance , Lindy ,
Suzy-Q ,
truckin' ,
Shag
Black
Bottom New Orleans
1919
Perry Bradford or Alberta Hunter
Ann Pennington , Grizzly
Bear , Charleston
Black Crow Dance
USA
c.1893
1893 - Kirmess Opera House
danced by Miss Austin
Black Out Stroll
USA
1940's
Tommy Conner
n/a
Blues trot, The
USA
1924
n/a
Clifford trot, Foxtrot ,
Horse
Trot , Turkey
trot
Bocane, The
Austria?
1670
Dance Master Bocan
2/4, sedate couple dance, Bocan was teacher to Charles
I of England, & Anne of Austria
Bolero,
The Spain & Cuba
1780
Zerezo
Spains national dance. Cuban Bolero,
Spanish Bolero ,
Boll Weevil
USA
1930s?
Basically a walking fwd and slight shifting direction
on heels
Swing Dance, Truckin' ,
Boogie Woogie , Suzy-Q
Boll Weevil Wiggle
Tunica, Mississippi
1915s
dance of the "Negro Cotton Pickers". Introduced
in Georgia
combination of the Grizzly
Bear , Chicken Slide and the Waltz
Bomba, La
Puerto-Rico
n/a
named after a Wooden Drum
see La Bomba
Bonfire Dance
n/a
n/a
aka: Rince Mór na Tine
Circle dance, Ceili dance, St. John's Eve, Virginia
Reel ,
Boogaloo USA
1960s
n/a
Pachanga
Boogie
Woogie USA
1930's
Pinetop Smith
Jitterbug , West
Coast Swing ,
Boogie-Woogie Maxixe
USA
1944
Gil Rodin
Boogie
Woogie ,
Maxixe
Boomps-A-Daisy England
1939
Dorothy Newman Crooper (Creator). Introduced in Washington,
DC. Annette Mills (wrote Words). Done in Waltz
Time.
You got to bump posteriors. Lambeth
Walk , Chestnutt Tree.
Boopsie-Doodle
USA?
1940's?
n/a
Bump, La
Conga , Swing
Bop
USA
1950/60
n/a
C. Parker, fifties dance, Jitterbug ,
Minton's, Swing,
Bossa
Nova Brazil
1950s
Joe
Lanza n/a
Bostella, La
New York
1950's
Killer
Joe Piro n/a
Boston Dip
n/a
c.1880s
Russ B. Walker
Boston Trot, Boston
Boston Fancy
Boston
1800s
n/a
New England Country Dance
Boston Hop
n/a
1912
n/a
Bunny
Hug , TurkeyTrot ,
Boston Dip etc.
Boston Stomp
n/a
c1927
n/a
Marty Hogan
Boston Trot
n/a
1909
n/a
Boston Dip, Boston
Boston
Two-Step London?
1908
Tom Walton
Boston Fancy, Boston Waltz, Two
Step , Texas
Two Step ,
Boston, Walking
n/a
1910s
n/a
A One Step Waltz
Boston
Waltz Boston, MA.
1834
Lorenz Papanti
(aka: American Waltz ),
Landler ,
Valse
Boulevard Glide
USA
1909
Composer: Reginald de Koven
Aeroplane Glide, Broadway Glide, Gaby
Glide , Gilda Glide, Jazzbo Glide
Bouffons,
Les Ancient Greek Dance
(modern 1800s)
Sword Dance
Battle, Canaries ,
Courant , Galliard ,
Pantomime ,
Renaissance dance, Salic dance, War
dance,
Boulangère, La (The Baker)
Dunkirk, France
1800s
Similar to De
Coverly
End Dance, Court ,
Quadrilles
Bourrée
d'Auvergne Auvergne
1565
Margarite de Naverre?
see: pas de Bourree. Branle
de Sabots , Minuet ,
Montagnardes,
Polka , trescone.
Bowery Tap
USA
1920s?
n/a
n/a
Bracelet
Greece
n/a
n/a
Bacchanalia ,
Hymenaea, Labyrinth, Pyrrhic ,
Brandons, La danse des
Germany
1800s?
aka: dimanche des Brandons
Done on the 1st Sunday of Lent
Branle,
le France
1445
aka: Conje'
Basse ,
Brawl, Charleston ,
Conje', Quadrilles
Brazilian
Tango Brazil?
1910?
aka: Maxixe
Maxixe ,
Mouvet ,
Castles
Breakaway
USA
1920's
n/a
Lindy
Hop , Swing ,
Mooch, Texas
Tommy
Break Dance
USA
1980
James Brown
n/a
Break
Down Old South
1890's
n/a
Cakewalk ,
Ballin'
The Jack , Baltimore
Buzz , Black
Bottom
Breban
France
n/a
aka: Pas de Brabant or
Saltarello
n/a
Brother Low Down
n/a
1924
n/a
Ballin'
The Jack , Breakdown ,
Lowdown, Real Lowdown,
Broadway, The
USA
1937?
A
Murray (Lets Swing It) n/a
Broadway Glide
USA
1912
Composer: Bert Grant
Aeroplane Glide, Boulevard Glide, Gaby
Glide , Gilda Glide, Jazzbo Glide etc.
Bubble
Dance USA
1930's
Sally
Rand ?Fan
Dance , Scarf Dance, Veil
Dance
Buck Dance
Lancashire
1830s
see Buck and Wing.
Buck
and Wing ,
Clog , Jig ,
Juba , Tap
Buck
and Wing Appalachian Mountains
1800's
?? James McIntyre ??
Buck ,
Clog , Juba ,
Pigeon , Tap ,
Bull Frog's Glide, The
USA
1900s
n/a
Ballin'
The Jack , Buzzin the Bee, Baltimore
Buzz
Bull Frog Hop
USA
1908
Perry Bradford
Black
Bottom ,
Charleston , Jazzbo Glide, Possum trot, Scratch the
Gravel, Seven Year Itch, Shimmy
Buena Vista Tango
n/a
1910
n/a
American,
Andalusan , Habanera ,
Maxixe ,
Milonga ,
Tango ,
Bumbishay
New Orleans?
1890s?
aka: Fanny Bump
1895 Pas Ma La Song Mentions
Bunny
Hug San Francisco
1911
Fairmont Hotel
Grizzly
Bear , Texas
Tommy ,
Turkey trot , Two-step
Bunny
Hop San Francisco
1953
High School in S.F.
Chicken Dance, Hokey-Pokey, La
Conga
Butterfly (novelty dance), the
London?
1908
Created by Mme. Adele Collier. became popular in 1909
replaced the Barn Dance. Used English (side by side
dance position like Peabody)
Butterfly Dance
Japan?
n/a
Samoans?
Buyoo
Buyoo
Japan
n/a
Classical Japanese dance
Butterfly Dance
Buzz, the
-
1910's
(Like in Bee)
Eccentric
Dancers: Buzzin' Burton, Sparrow Harris
Buzzard Dance
W. Africa
n/a
a circle dance, Imitating the bird
the Buzzard Lope may have derived from this dance
Buzzard
Lope Sunbury, GA
1880s?
In Dahomey?
Eagle
Rock , Mime ,
Peck, Walk
Buzzin' the Bee
USA
1900s
n/a
Ballin'
the Jack , Baltimore
Buzz , etc
Byrd Hop
USA
c.1914
named after Commander Richard Byrd
Al Smith Hop, Lindy
Hop , Earhardt Hop, Flea Hop
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