DANCE INDEX: [ M ]

Dance Name

Origin

Date

Creator / Choreographer

Note: See Also

Macarena

n/a

1993 (song)

dance created in 1996 by a Flamenco teacher.

song by Los del Río, Originally had no dance till 1996. Was a type of line dance, aspect of the Virgin Mary in Spain.

Madera

Bohemia

1850s

 Anna Chadimová-Slezak

Pre Polka

Madison, The

USA

c.1950's

(articles: 4/1960, 8/1960, 12/1960 - Ballroom Dance Mag: a Solo and Couples dance, It's Madison Time)

Twist, Bop, Frug, Hully Gully, Swim, Jerk

Madrilène, La

Spain?

1850s?

Spanish style couples dance

n/a

Malagueña

Andalusia

n/a

(Mal-a-Gain=Yah), aka: Flamenco, (also a music)

Andalusan, Flamenco, Tango, Bolero, Paso Doble

Mambo

Haiti/ Cuba

c.1930's

?Francisco Grillo?

Salsa, Rumba, Son, Latin, Cha-Cha, Danzon, Habanera, Samba

Manila Swing

USA

c.1980s

another name for the Hustle (1-2-3&4-5-6&)

Hustle, Disco, Phillapino Swing

Manipuri

Manipur, India

n/a

n/a

Hindu Natya, Marwar, Malabar, Madras, Manipur, Kathak, Kathakali, Guru, Tagore, Shan-Kar, Belly

Maori

New Zealand

n/a

Songs, War Dance

n/a

Marimba Waltz

n/a

1921

n/a

done to Song-After The Ball-1921

Marinera Peruana

Peru

n/a

a Flirtation dance

n/a

Martinique, The

Haiti

n/a

A set dance, connected to the Giouba dance

n/a

Martinique Beguine

St. Lucia

n/a

ballroom dance of the island of St. Lucia and Martinique.

n/a

Mary Pickford Waltz

New York

1917

n/a

Waltz, Mary Pickford

Mashed Potato (e)

USA

c.1950/60

1960s fad dance, version of the Charleston

Fad, Twist, Frug, Hully Gully, Swim, Madison, Watusi, Monkey, Jerk

Mason

?Cuba?

n/a

n/a

-

Matelot

Holland

n/a

Dutch sailors dance, wooden shoes, arms interlaced behind backs.

Sailors Hornpipe, clogs, Matelotte

Mattichiche, La

n/a

1905?

?Derminy & Morley?

aka: Maxixe,

Mattachins

n/a

c.1500's

aka: Matassins

Sword Dance, Court Ballets,

Maurice's Step Dance

New York

1910's

Maurice Mouvet

Chasseurs Foxtrot, Maxixe, Apache

Maurice Walk

New York

1912

Mouvet and Walton

One Step, Cakewalk, Skip, Hop, Dips, Glides, Tango

Maxixe

Brazil

1912

Del Rio and Luis Introduced at the Palais de danse. aka: Brazilian Tango

Parisian, Brazilian, Bre'siliene, Mattichiche, Zemba, Habanara, Tango, Samba

Maxixe Argentine

New York

1914?

Joan Sawyer

Maxixe, Bre'siliene, Mattichiche, Tango

Maxixe Bre'siliene

New York?

1914?

n/a

Maxixe, Castles, Mouvet

Maxina

Britain?

1917

Madame Low Hurndall

dance won 1st Place British Teachers of Dance

May Dance

Swiss

1907?

n/a

Klapdanse, Chicken Dance

May Pole Dance

England

1763

Moors, John Tiller (said to have created modern maypole)

Versailles, Carnival, Robin Hood, May Day Dance, Morris Dance

Mayfair Cotillion

n/a

1908

Created by G.F. Childs

Cotillion, billed as A New Square dance

Mazurka

Mazovie, Poland

1500's

Markowsky

Polacco, Holubiec, Minuet, Polka, Polonaise, Waltz, Russian

Measure

n/a

n/a

Court/Stately Dance

n/a

Melange

n/a

1928

n/a

Apache, Maxixe

Meloneras

Daimiel, Spain

n/a

Variation of Sequilillas Manchengas, by two or four couples

Sequilillas Manchengas, Spanish Dance

Mento

Jamaica

n/a

Native dances resembling the Rumba

Rumba

Merenconga

USA

1960s

aka:  Pachanga,

Merengue, Conga, Mambo, Cha Cha

Mexiconga

???

1930s

Ann Miller, George White Scandals of 1939

Conga,

Merengue

Hispanola

c.1800s

(different stories see page)

tambora, güiro, Urpa, Walk, King, Salsa, Latin, Mambo

Merry Go Round Dance

New York

1937

Veloz & Yolanda

Cobra Tango, Yolanda Tango

Merry Widow Waltz

n/a

n/a

Maurice Mouvet said to be invented by Georgie Mahrer

Waltz

Mesemba

Spain?

c.1890s

n/a

Samba, Zemba Queca, Lundu

Metropole, Le

n/a

c.1870s

H. Fletcher Rivers

Waltz

Mexican Hat Dance

Mexico

?1940s?

aka: El Jarabe Taptio

Mixers, Conga, Hokey Pokey, Bunny Hop,

Mexican Shuffle

n/a

1948

n/a

n/a

Mexican Twist, That

USA

1911

Composer: Walter Donovan

N/A

Military Glide

USA

1910?

n/a

Sousa, March,

Military March

n/a

n/a

note: done in Movie-Pin Up Girl

Military Glide, Sousa, March

Military Schottische

n/a

1800s

aka: Kentucky Jubilee and Dancing in the Barn

Schottische

Milonga

Spain/ Arg.

c.1800's

Argentine country dance and music style

Tango, Music, Habanera, Andalusan

Mime

Greece

600 B.C.

Dorian Centers of Pelponnesus

Pantomime, Mute, Act, Phlyakes

Minuet

Poitu , FR.

16-1875

Pe'Cour?

aka: Menuet, Stately, Court, Round

Minuet Tango

USA

1913

Albert Newman

A Tango-non ragtime, 2/4

Mitote

Santa Cruz

5/3/??

Montezuma ordered Cortez to dance, Superbly dressed, danced from Night to morning.

Cascaron

Mizpirotza

Basque

c1600s?

n/a

n/a

Mobile Buck

USA

1830s 

Common Buck, evolved into the Time Step

Minstrel Shows, Buck Dance, Tap

Modern Dance

Europe

19th Century

Francois Delsarte, Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, Isadora Duncan- (USA)

Jazz, Ballet, Interpretive

Modern Jazz

USA

c.1930's

(see Modern Dance for now)

Jazz, Tap, Ballet

Money Musk

New England?

1776

written by Daneil Dow

Hornpipe, Gigue, Reels, Highland Fling, Breakdown, Strathspey, Muine Music (also a song title)

Monferrina

Piedmont

c.1800s?

n/a

Giga, Lombardina, Tarantella

Monfredo

n/a

c.1800s?

n/a

n/a

Monkey, The

USA

1963

(Major Lance's Popular Song Monkey Time)

1960s Fad dances, Twist, Frug, Watusi, Mule, etc.

Monkey Glide, the

USA

1910's

n/a

n/a

Monkey Hunch

USA

c.1917

n/a

Ballin The Jack, Buzzin' the Bee, etc., James P. Johnson

Modinha

Brazil

n/a

derived from Portuguese songs and dances

n/a

Mooch, the

USA

1920s

Animule Ball by Jelly Roll Morton mentions the Mooch, Said originally to be a Zulu Dance.

The Sugar, Shag, Breakaway, Lindy Hop, Swing, Charleston etc.

Mooch and Sugar, the

USA

1910s

Pre Swing Dance

Texas Tommy, Breakaway, Lindy Hop

Morris Dances

Spain/ English

1360's

John Of Gaunt - Introduced to England. aka: Moresque, Morisca,

Square, Robin Hood, Country, Contra, Bean, May Pole

Mosquito Dance

Australia?

n/a

maybe Aborignes?, native americans, Mashpee and Aquinnah, Wbanaki, Samoans seems to be many versions of this dance

Composer Béla Bartók. Scratch dance, Heebee Jeebies, Mosquito Macarena

Mosquito Macarena

USA

1990S?

Childrens dance

Mosquito Dance, Macarena

Mosquito SLAP Dance

Hawaii

1940's?

(Samoans - choreographed slapping rids the male dancers of imaginary pests with high stepping athleticism)

aka: siva fa'ataupati

Motovidlo

Czech

n/a

(name means winder or windlass)

Allewander, Allemande, Reel

Mouse, the

USA

1960's

Soupy Sales

(say 'do the mouse': make a face, with thumbs in ears)

Mule, The

USA

1966

Killer Joe Piro (vodka ad)

Jerk, Watusi, Twist, Mule Walk, etc

Mule Walk

Washington

1913

created by Jane Allen - Part Turkey Trot, Horsetrot, and Tango. Music starts then goes into a Waltz and Evreyone stops dancing until the original song starts again (stubborn as a Mule idea - wont dance waltz)

The Mule, James P. Johnson, John Roache , The Jungles Casino

Mutchíco

Basque

n/a

aka: Saut Basque

edo carrica dantza

Musette

France

1400s?

n/a

Piva, Hornpipe, Gigue, Sarabanda, Chacona

Mysetta Waltz

n/a

1960s?

(4/1967-Ballroom dancing Times Mag.)

Waltz

Mysore

India

n/a

Similar to the May Pole dance.

See May Pole for now