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Dance Name	Origin	Date	Creator / Choreographer	Note: See Also
Fadé Dance (Fade)	England	n/a	aka: Furry dance	May Dance, St. Michael, Fuer, Floralia
Fado	Brazil	1700s	n/a	Portuguese, Lundu, Fandango, Lulu Fado, Brazilian Fado
Fais-de-dos	French-Cajun	n/a	n/a	n/a
Fandango	Seville, Spain	1760s	Phoenicians, Spanish	Basically a Chica!, Spanish
Fan Dance (Oriental)	Japan	n/a	Geishas	Maiko, Shinto Dance
Fan Dance	USA	1930s	Sally Rand	Bubble Dance, Faith Bacon, Sally Rand
Fan Tango	USA	1910s	Albert Newman	Tango, Newman Tango
Farandole	Provence of France and Languedoc	B.C.?	Thesus	L' Escargot, Kolo, Chorovod, Brawl, Fedor Lensky
Faroê	Scandinavia	n/a	n/a	Songs, Wedding Dances, Flying Dutchman, Tarentella
Farruca	Spain	n/a	Gypsy dance for men	Spanish, Flamenco
Farwoudiar	Sengal	n/a	Wolof dance for women	n/a
Fascination Waltz	n/a	c.1879	D.B. Brenneke	Waltz
Fest Noz	Breton (England)	n/a	Night Dance	n/a
Festejo	Peru	n/a	Male circle fighting dance, Sensual	War, Festival, Carnival, Capoiera, cajón
Fire Dance	n/a	n/a	n/a	Torch Dance
Firlefanz	Swabia	1560s	Paul Kugelmann (composer)?	Trotto, Trappeltanz, Trottartt, Firlefei, Fulafranz
Firlefei	France	1800s?	Faster version of the Virelai	Virelai, Trottartt, Trotto
Fish, The	USA	1955		SEE: Hit Parader Music Mag 6/1955
Fish Tail	Bavaria (some say Africa)	n/a	Vernacular version Hips weave about in a figure 8.	Animal dance, Snake Hips dance, The Grind, Black Bottom
Fish Walk	USA	c.1912	Uriel Davis. Ragtime Dance. (Basically put foot Forward and drag back, repeat other foot)	Bunny Hug, Grizzly Bear, Texas Tommy, Toddle, Grind, Slow Drag, Turkey Trot, Boston Dip etc.
Five Step , The	New York	1849	(1928 - Harland Dixon)	Mae Clark, Ballroom Manhattan, Mary Play, 5/4
Five Step Waltz	n/a	1880	n/a	Waltz
Flamenco	Andalusia, Spain	n/a	n/a	Flamenco, Floriditto, Tap
Flapper Walk	USA	1924	n/a	Charleston, Chic Walk, Collegiate Walk, Camel Walk
Flat Charleston	England	1920s	travelling Ballroom Dance not resembling Charleston hardly at all.	Charleston Crawl, Charleston, Foxtrot, British Pathe
Flea Hop	New Jersey	1930	precursor to the Shag	Shag, Sugar Foot, Balboa, Swing
Flemish Folk Dance	Belgium	??	??	??
Flirtation Walk	n/a	n/a	$1941 - Flirtation Walk Movie	See George White, Hula
Floogie Walk	Harlem	1939?	Myra Johnson	Cotton Club, Worlds Fair
Florida East Coast Shimmy	NYC	1943	Katherine Dunham & Ohardieno, 1/1/1943 - Life Magazine	n/a
Flower Waltz	n/a	n/a	n/a	Waltz Of The Roses, Cotillion,
Flying Dutchman	??	??	Polka Dance usually done at Weddings etc.	Polka
Fofa	Portugal	1700,s	(Brazilian Connections)	Fandango, Lundu, Lundum, Fado
Fogueiras de S. João	Portugal	1700s?	Jumping through fire dance	Torch, Fire, Torchlight
Folía, The	Portugal	1565	Carnival Dance	Sarabande, Rigaudon, Bailes Castanets, Spanish
Folk Dance	Everywhere :)	n/a	The People!	Ethnological Dance, Lindy, Square, Peasant/ Cotillion
Footloose Strut	USA	1921	Ned Wayburn	Foxtrot, Tango
Forlana (Forlane)	Frioul, Venice	1711	Pe'Cour	Similar to Gigue but calmer, animated 3/4 or 6/8 time, Has similarities to the Tarantella. with Glissades & close steps. La Novelle, Fourlana
Forlona, La	USA	1914	Dance Masters of America	n/a
Fort Worth Shuffle	Fort Worth, TX.	1980's	(count 123-4&5-6&...REPEAT) Similar to Dallas Two-Step	Dallas Two Step, Dallas Shuffle, Triple Two, Texas Two-Step, Country Western
Foulard	National Dance of?	1800s?	n/a	n/a
Fourlane	Venice, IT.	n/a	1st in Frioul	Forlane
Fox Blues, The	Paris, FR	1922	Professor Robert (Oakland Tribune 12/10/1922)	A sort of One- Step that has a very long slow step, Lifting feet to Slow American Blues Music.
Fox Dance, the	USA	1912		Stork Hop, Goat Bound, Bunny Hug, Turkey Trot etc.
Fox-trot, The	New York	1912	Harry Fox	NY Theater / Two Step
Fox Trot Artistic	n/a	c.1921	n/a	Fox-trot, Camel Walk, Triangle One Step, Chic Walk
Fox-trot Chasseurs	France	1914	Maurice Mouvet?	See Fox-trot for now!
Fox-trot, Syncopated.	n/a	n/a	Maurice Mouvet?	See Fox-trot for now!
Francais, Francais	France	n/a	n/a	(3/4 time Country Dance)
Frat March	USA	1905	n/a	n/a
Freak Dancing	USA	1996	n/a	aka: Grinding, extreme dirty dancing, simulated mating. Grind, Slow Drag, Hucklebuck
Freddy, do the	USA	c.1960s	Freddy and the dreamers did song.	Twist, Frug, Hully-Gully, Mashed Potato, Swim. Do inplace first extend left leg, then left arm, repeat opposite side.
French Pericon	NY	1914	Maurice Mouvet	Chez' Maurice
French Tango	Paris	1924	n/a	European Tango, Tangolio
Fricasee	France	1700's	Real or Portrayed lovers tweaking the ears and nose of each other	Mime, comic
Friska	Poland	1700s?	Markowski	Mazurka, Sicilienne, Lisbonienne, Schottische
Friss	Hungary?	1800s?	n/a	Lassu,
Frug, The	USA	1960's	Arm dance variation of the Chicken and the Twist. (Sweet Charity,)	Twist, Fad, Chicken, Watusi, Jerk, Monkey etc. AKA: The Surf, Big Bea and the Thunderbird.
Flying Lindy	New York	1940's	see West Coast for now!	Lindy, Swing, Jitterbug
Fulafranz	Swabia?	1500s?	n/a	Trottart, Trotto, Firlefei, Firlefanz
Funky Butt	USA	1910s	Lift skirt and wiggle hips	Grind, Mooche, Squat, Itch, Shimmy, Buzzard Lope
Funky Chicken	Memphis, USA	1969?	Rufus Thomas?	Fad, Swim, Twist, Frug, Push and Pull, Breakdown, Walkin the Dog
Furlana	Venice, Italy	1583	Folk Dance of Venice	a courtship dance. Tarantella. aka Furlane, Forlana, Frullana and Friulana, La Popette, Pope's Dance.
Furlough	USA- RKO	1940s ?	William Bales	Ballet premiere was 1/20/1945
Furry Dance	England	n/a	aka: Fade Dance	n/a
Futurest Twirl, the	USA	1913	Donald Brian	Based on the Turkey Trot and Tango with exagerated steps

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