DANCE HISTORY ARCHIVES: DANCE INDEX [ L ]
Dance Name
Origin Date Creator / Choreographer Note: See Also
L' Arc-en-ciel
n/a
n/a
Fancy Dance
n/a
L' Eclair
n/a
1889
L. De G. Brookes
n/a
L' Italienne
n/a
1850s?
n/a
La
Sicilienne , La Italiana, Julie Vincent
La Belle de la France
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
La Bimbi
usa?
1960s
said to be created by Eduardo
Davidson
La
Pachanga , Le Frisson
La Bomba
n/a
?1937?
Mateo Flecha (1481-1553) wrote La Bomba
song. aka: Bomba
Fox
Trot , Tango
La
Boulangère France
1600s?
Has similarities to the Sir
Roger de Coverly , Done at end of a ball.
Sir
Roger , Quadrille ,
La
Bourree France
n/a
n/a
Obsolete dance, see ballet
La Bretagne
France
1704
Feuillet (Named after birth of duc
de Bretagne)
La
Gavotte Du Roy (1716)
Labyrinth
Greece
n/a
n/a
Bracelet, Pyrrhic ,
Hymenaea, Bacchanalia
La Carmagnole
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
La Caprice
USA
c.1893
performed at the Kirmess Opera House
(Ohio)
Miss Austin,
La
Conga Cuba
c.1800s?
n/a
Carnival, Big
Apple
La Contly
France?
c.1700s
aka: danse a deux
n/a
La Coquette
n/a
1800s?
n/a
Galop
& Polka
Mix round dance
La
Coska New York
1850
L de G. brooks
3/4, La Esmerelda
La Cucaracha
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"
La Danse Classique
n/a
n/a
aka Gavotte
See Gavotte
La Esmeralda
n/a
c.1850s?
n/a
Galop ,
La Coska
La Fille de Chasse
n/a
n/a
n/a
La Fille de Fees, La Fille de Regiment
La Fille de Fees
n/a
n/a
n/a
La Fille de Chasse, La Fille de Regiment
La Fille de Regiment
n/a
n/a
n/a
La Fille de Chasse, La Fille de Fees
La Forlona
USA
1914
Dance Masters of America (also see Forlana circa 1711)
n/a
La Francese
France?
c.1520s
n/a
La Italiana, Galliarde
La Italiana
France?
c.1520s
danced by Ercole d'Este
La Francese, Galliarde
La
Madrilène London
1800s
Madame Michu (slow 3/8 with castanets)
Spanish
La
Manola Atlanta, GA.
5/18/1891
F.C. Notts (Spanish Skirt Dance done
to Landers' Manola Waltz).
Skirt
Dance
La Marjolaine
New York
1888
E. W. Masters
n/a
La Massaniello
n/a
n/a
National Dance
n/a
La Mode
n/a
1880s?
aka: Knickerbocker ,
La Mode, Ripple & Racquet, Wave
n/a
La Mora
n/a
1908
created by W.M. Primrose
La Napoleonienne
France
1800s
Made for the marriage of the French
emperor Napoleon, Couples dance.
Polka
La Paquerette
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
La Parisienne
Paris?
n/a
National Dance
n/a
La Polichinette
Paris, France
1911
La Fornarina A "l'olmpia"
de Paris et au (at Teatro De La Comedia de Madrid)
Nouvelle Dance
La Reine Pomare
France
1845
Introduced at Bal Mabille
n/a
La Raspa
Vera Cruz, MX
?1946?
Hopping steps
Folk
La resbalosa
Argentina
n/a
-
Cinquillo
La Roska
Poland
1890s
steps are same as a Mazurka
and Polka
- Redowa
n/a
La Russe
New York
1/1/1882
Introduced by the American Society
of Professors of Dancing,
n/a
la
Rumba New York
1910s
created by Tim Brynm, Joan
Sawyer & Lew Quinn
Tango
La Siciliene
Sicily (Maybe France)
1850s?
n/a
Valse
Redowa ,
l'Italian, l'Italiene,
Cerrito, St. Leon
La Sylvia
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
La Tempête
Paris
1860s
n/a
Quadrilles
La Tyrolienne
Tyrol
n/a
see Tyrolienne
n/a
La
Volta Italy
1850
n/a
Volta ,
Waltz ,
De Medici
La Zingarella
n/a
?1880s?
a National Dance of ???
Hopping Dance
Lambada
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.
Lambeth Shuffle
Harlem
1938
Plantation Club renamed the Lambeth Walk the Lambeth
Shuffle
Lambeth
Walk , Big
Apple
Lambeth
Walk London
1938?
Lupino Lane. Miss England also claims.
Joseph Rines Intro to USA
Walk, Strut, Round, Lambeth Shuffle,
Big
Apple , Palais Glide
Lambra
Arab
n/a
aka: Moresca
Moresca ,
Spanish ,
Portuguese
Lame
Duck New York
1912
The
Castles
really a variation more than a dance
Lancers
Paris
1820-1885
Dance Master- Laborde
Square
Dance , Lancers
Ländler
Austria
1690-1800
Vienna
Waltz ,
Volta ,
De
Medici , Landler
Landó
Peru
n/a
derivative of the Landu with a mix
of Spanish & African rhythms
Landu
Landu
Angola, Spain
n/a
"Fancy Dance" by slaves
from Brazil
Landó
Lariat Dance
Mexico
c.1700s?
Vaqueros
Cowboy, Spanish ,
Mexican Hat
Lassu
Hungary
c.1800?s
n/a
Friss,
Latin
Dance Cuba
n/a
n/a
Cha-cha ,
Bolero ,
Mambo ,
Spanish
Le
Branle n/a
n/a
n/a
Contra ,
Court
Le
Carillon do Dunkerque France
1600s?
n/a
Sir
Roger , Quadrille ,
La
Boulangère
Le
Frisson USA?
1960s
Eduardo
Davidson La
Pachanga , La Bimbi
Le Galop a Trois Pas
n/a
1880s?
aka: Three Step Galop, also called
Three Slide Galop.
n/a
le manchon-monstre
Europe
1800s?
a whimsical group waltz using a rope,
(maybe these are Cotillion
figures)
la bombe mélinete, In le facteur,
Waltz
Le Reve
New York
1889
C. H. Rivers. adopted by the American
Society of professors of Dancing
n/a
Le Roc
Germany
n/a
"Kick Ball Change, Kick Step,
Kick Step"
Jive ,
Swing, Acrobatics, Gymnastics,
Adagio , Ce Roc, Rock
& Roll
Le Tourbillion
Paris
1858
Academic company of Professors de Danse
of Paris, Artists of the Imperial Theater of the Opera.
Quadrilles
Legomainia
USA
1900s
A name for the style of dance called "Rubber
Legging", aka: Rubberlegs
Henry Rubberlegs Williams, Alberta Whitman, Julian
Eltinge
Les Clochettes
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Les VARIÉTÉS Parisiennes
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
Limbo
Trinadad
1920s?
aka: Under The Stick Dance
Fad dance, Party Dance
Lindbergh Glide
New York
8/1927
Thomas H. Sheehy
Kinkajou ,
Dixie Stomp
Lindbergh
Hop 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
Lindbergh Wave Waltz
USA
c.1920s
Society Of Professors of
Dancing
Swing Waltz, Jitterbug-
Waltz
Lindy
( Hop )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
Lindy One Step, the
USA
1927
Demonstrated at Schultz Dance Studio in Chicago (Suburbanite
Economist Newsppr 9/23/1927.)
n/a
Line Dance
n/a
n/a
n/a
Folk ,
Disco ,
Country
Lip To Lip
USA
1920s
Ragtime Dance
Texas
Tommy , Grizzly
Bear , Bunny
Hug ,Toddle
Lisbonienne
Poland
c.1700s?
Markowski
Polka ,
Mazurka ,
Lisbonienne, Sicilienne ,
Friska, Schottische
Listen Lester
New York
1918?
n/a
Grizzly
Bear , Turkey
Trot
Little Apple
n/a
1937?
n/a
Big
Apple
Little Boat Dance
Cuba
c.1940's
n/a
Timba Rigurosa
Little Foot
n/a
n/a
n/a
La
Varsovienne
Lombardina
Italy?
c.1800s
n/a
Giga ,
Monferrina, Giorometta
Loomis Glide Mazurka
New York
1888
A.M. Loomis. Adopted by the American
Society of Professors of Dancing
n/a
Loomis Yale Univeristy York
New York
n/a
A. M. Loomis
Polka-Redowa
London Swish
n/a
c1913
Mrs. Florence C. Dyer
n/a
Los
Seises Seville
n/a
Introduced by Cardinal Ximenes in Toledo.
Done by 12 choir boys.
Morris
Dance , Musarabic rite, Minuet
Louvre (Loure)
France
n/a
Jean
Baptiste Lully
Gigue
Lente, Spanish
- (Elizibeth of England)
Love Waltz
n/a
1913
Andrae and Ethel (Folies Bergere)
Pointed Toe Upward on every Second Step, then wraps
legs around leaders waist and is spun close to floor.
Lovers Two Step
USA
1910
n/a
Bunny Hug, Turkey Trot, Slow Drag
Lovers Walk
n/a
n/a
n/a
Slow Dance
Lowdown
USA
1910'S
n/a
Brother Lowdown, Real Lowdown,
Luncheon Lurch
USA
1913
danced by Miss Katherine Britton and Sally Williams
Valse Chaloupe, Texas Tommy, Horse Trot, Reno Glide,
Tango Dream, Banana Peel Glide etc.
Lujock
Russia
-
-
Russian Dance
Lundu
Angola
1680s?
Bantu Slaves. Lundu from word Kilundu
(means spirit). aka: Fado
Sarabanda ,
Chacona ,
Batuque, Samba ,
Lulu
Fado , Fandango ,
(Portuguese)
Lulu
Fado New York
1914
Maurice
Mouvet and Florence
Walton
Lulu
Fado , Chez Maurice, Lundu
Lurch
USA
1900S?
Waltz Variation
Waltz
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