DANCE INDEX: [ L ]

Dance Name

Origin

Date

Creator / Choreographer

Note: See Also

n/a

n/a

Fancy Dance

n/a

n/a

1889

L. De G. Brookes

n/a

n/a

1850s?

n/a

La Sicilienne, La Italiana, Julie Vincent

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

?1937?

Mateo Flecha (1481-1553) wrote La Bomba song. aka: Bomba

Fox Trot, Tango

France

1600s?

Has similarities to the Sir Roger de Coverly, Done at end of a ball.

Sir Roger, Quadrille,
Le Carillon do Dunkerque,

France

n/a

n/a

Obsolete dance, see ballet

France

1704

Feuillet (Named after birth of duc de Bretagne)

La Gavotte Du Roy (1716)

Greece

n/a

n/a

Bracelet, Pyrrhic, Hymenaea,
Bacchanalia

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

USA

c.1893

performed at the Kirmess Opera House (Ohio)

Miss Austin,

Cuba

c.1800s?

n/a

Carnival, Big Apple

France?

c.1700s

aka: danse a deux

n/a

n/a

1800s?

n/a

Galop & Polka Mix round dance

New York

1850

L de G. brooks

3/4, La Esmerelda

Mexico

1930s

Novelty Dance!, Arthur Murray ballroom adaptation. 5/18/1934 Pioneer/ RKO 1st color film "La Cucaracha".

Mexican Hat Dance, Warner Bros. -"Happiness ahead"

n/a

n/a

aka Gavotte

See Gavotte

n/a

c.1850s?

n/a

Galop, La Coska

n/a

n/a

n/a

La Fille de Fees, La Fille de Regiment

n/a

n/a

n/a

La Fille de Chasse, La Fille de Regiment

n/a

n/a

n/a

La Fille de Chasse, La Fille de Fees

France?

c.1520s

n/a

La Italiana, Galliarde

France?

c.1520s

danced by Ercole d'Este

La Francese, Galliarde

London

1800s

Madame Michu (slow 3/8 with castanets)

Spanish

Atlanta, GA.

5/18/1891

F.C. Notts (Spanish Skirt Dance done to Landers' Manola Waltz).

Skirt Dance

New York

1888

E. W. Masters

n/a

n/a

n/a

National Dance

n/a

n/a

1880s?

aka: Knickerbocker, La Mode, Ripple & Racquet, Wave

n/a

France

1800s

Made for the marriage of the French emperor Napoleon, Couples dance.

Polka

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Paris?

n/a

National Dance

n/a

Paris, France

1911

La Fornarina A "l'olmpia" de Paris et au (at Teatro De La Comedia de Madrid)

Nouvelle Dance

France

1845

Introduced at Bal Mabille

n/a

Vera Cruz, MX

?1946?

Hopping steps

Folk

Poland

1890s

steps are same as a Mazurka and Polka - Redowa

n/a

New York

1/1/1882

Introduced by the American Society of Professors of Dancing,

n/a

New York

1910s

created by Tim Brynm, Joan Sawyer & Lew Quinn

Tango

Sicily (Maybe France)

1850s?

n/a

Valse Redowa, l'Italian, l'Italiene, Cerrito, St. Leon

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Paris

1860s

n/a

Quadrilles

Tyrol

n/a

see Tyrolienne

n/a

Italy

1850

n/a

Volta, Waltz, De Medici

n/a

?1880s?

a National Dance of ???

Hopping Dance

Brazil

1989-

from n/e coast of Brazil. Became a fad dance. Song originally titled "Llorando se fue" which was done by the Bolivian group "Los Kjarkas", remade a hit song by Kaoma.

Samba, Calypso, forro, sayas, the maxixe and the carimbó.

London

1938?

Lupino Lane. Miss England also claims. Joseph Rines Intro to USA

Walk, Strut, Round, Lambeth Shuffle, Big Apple , Palais Glide

Arab

n/a

aka: Moresca

Moresca, Spanish, Portuguese

New York

1912

The Castles

really a variation more than a dance

Paris

1820-1885

Dance Master- Laborde

Square Dance, Lancers

Austria

1690-1800

Vienna

Waltz, Volta, De Medici, Landler

Peru

n/a

derivative of the Landu with a mix of Spanish & African rhythms

Landu

Angola, Spain

n/a

"Fancy Dance" by slaves from Brazil

Landó

Mexico

c.1700s?

Vaqueros

Cowboy, Spanish, Mexican Hat

Hungary

c.1800?s

n/a

Friss,

Cuba

n/a

n/a

Cha-cha, Bolero, Mambo, Spanish

n/a

n/a

n/a

Contra, Court

France

1600s?

n/a

Sir Roger, Quadrille, La Boulangère

n/a

1880s?

aka: Three Step Galop, also called Three Slide Galop.

n/a

Europe

1800s?

a whimsical group waltz using a rope, (maybe these are Cotillion figures)

la bombe mélinete, In le facteur,
Le papillon, In le théâtre, Waltz

New York

1889

C. H. Rivers. adopted by the American Society of professors of Dancing

n/a

Germany

n/a

"Kick Ball Change, Kick Step, Kick Step"

Jive, Swing, Acrobatics, Gymnastics, Adagio, Ce Roc, Rock & Roll

Paris

1858

Academic company of Professors de Danse of Paris, Artists of the Imperial Theater of the Opera.

Quadrilles

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Paris

1865

Academic company of Professors de Danse of Paris, Artists of the Imperial Theater of the Opera. Introduced in America by William B. De Garmo.

Quadrilles

Trinadad

1920s?

aka: Under The Stick Dance

Fad dance, Party Dance

USA

1927

aka: Lindy Hop, Lindy, named by "Shorty George"

Jig Hop, Dewey Dip,Savoy, Swing, Jitterbug, Breakaway, Texas Tommy, The Mooch, Texas Tommy, Earhart Hop, Breakaway, Al Smith Hop, Shango, Ejor, Push, Whip, West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Jive, Rock and Roll, Lindy, Snowden, Swing, Jitterbug, Shag

USA

c.1920s

Society Of Professors of Dancing

Swing Waltz, Jitterbug- Waltz

USA

1927

aka: Lindbergh Hop, Folk Dance

Savoy, Swing, Jitterbug, Breakaway, Texas Tommy, The Mooch, Texas Tommy, Earhart Hop, Breakaway, Al Smith Hop, Shango, Ejor, Push, Whip, West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Jive, Rock and Roll, Snowden, Swing, Jitterbug, Shag

n/a

n/a

n/a

Folk, Disco, Country

USA

1920s

Ragtime Dance

Texas Tommy, Grizzly Bear, Bunny Hug,Toddle

Poland

c.1700s?

Markowski

Polka, Mazurka, Lisbonienne, Sicilienne, Friska, Schottische

New York

1918?

n/a

Grizzly Bear, Turkey Trot

n/a

1937?

n/a

Big Apple

Cuba

c.1940's

n/a

Timba Rigurosa

n/a

n/a

n/a

La Varsovienne

Italy?

c.1800s

n/a

Giga, Monferrina, Giorometta

New York

1888

A.M. Loomis. Adopted by the American Society of Professors of Dancing

n/a

New York

n/a

A. M. Loomis

Polka-Redowa

Seville

n/a

Introduced by Cardinal Ximenes in Toledo. Done by 12 choir boys.

Morris Dance, Musarabic rite, Minuet

France

n/a

Jean Baptiste Lully

Gigue Lente, Spanish - (Elizibeth of England)

n/a

n/a

n/a

Slow Dance

USA

1910'S

n/a

Brother Lowdown, Real Lowdown,
Doin the Lowdown,

Angola

1680s?

Bantu Slaves. Lundu from word Kilundu (means spirit). aka: Fado

Sarabanda, Chacona, Batuque, Samba, Lulu Fado, Fandango, (Portuguese)

New York

1914

Maurice Mouvet and Florence Walton

Lulu Fado, Chez Maurice, Lundu
Le Vrai Fado Portugais

USA

1900S?

Waltz Variation

Waltz