DANCE INDEX: [ P ]

Dance Name

Origin

Date

Creator / Choreographer

Note: See Also

Paul Jones

USA

n/a

aka: Old Paul Jones

Arkansas Traveler

Pachanga (Cha)

Cuba/USA

1960s

said to be created by Eduardo Davidson

Cha, Mambo, Salsa, Le Frisson, La Bimbi, Viva La Pachanga

Pachuko Hop

USA

1940S?

n/a

Zoot Suit Riots, Swing, Lindy

Padovana

Italy

1546

Antonio Rotta?

Pavane, Passamezzo, 6/8

Palesteena Foxtrot

USA

1900s

a Foxtrot Variation

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Paloléo

Spain

1500s?

shrine of Sta Maria Del Essar

n/a

Pambiche

n/a

n/a

aka: Merenque, Palm Beach

see Merenque

Pantomime (Mime)

Rome

1st cent AD

Romans aka:mime

Mime, Mute, Act, Robot, Break Dancing, Phlyakes, Mimus, Comedian, Jester

Papaltatsa Maxixe

New York

1914

(Jenny) Dolly Sisters

Maxixe, Harry Fox, Singers

Parisienne Tango

New York?

c.1910s

Joan Sawyer

Leslie F. Clendenens, Dance Mad

Pas de Soleure

n/a

n/a

National dance

n/a

Pas Italian

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Pasillo Colombiano

Columbia

n/a

similar to Cuban Bolero in 6/8

Bolero

Pas de Brabant

France

n/a

aka: Breban, Saltarello

Saltarello

Pas de Quatre

Scotland

c.1860s

Meyer Lutz, at Gaiety Theater

aka: Barn Dance

Pas Ma La, the

USA?

1895

An exceptional comedy dancer. Song: La Pas Ma La, Introduced by Ernest Hogan and the Georgia Graduates. Black Patti Troubadors, The Smart Set.

Place hand on head, Walk Forward then Hop back three steps with knees bent with gestures. Mentions the Bombishay, Eagle Rock, Turkey Trot

Paso Doble

Spain

1800s?

see also Spanish Dance

Two-Step, Paseo, Spanish, Salsa, Latin, La Corrida Song-1963,

Passacaglia

Spain

c.1600's

Jean Baptiste Lully aka: Passacallie

Stately, Court, Suite, Louis XIV, Slow Dance -3/4, Long Gliss'es, arms at sides. Chacona, Sarabande

Pasadena, The

USA

1895

George Dodsworth

Waltz or Two Step

Passamesa

Italy

1546

aka: Pavane

Pavane, Payan, Pavin, Passemezzo

Passe-Passe

Italy?

c.1800s

aka: Quadrille

n/a

Passe-Pied

France, Brittany

1500's

aka: Rigaudon & Fast Minuet

Branle, Bouree, Minuet, Rigaudon

Pass The Ammunition

USA

1943

Arthur Murray

Praise The Lord, Big Apple

Passa - Mezzo

Italy

1550s

(passare, to walk, mezzo, half) was a slow dance 4/4

Pavane, Galliard, Minuet, Queen Elizabeth

Passion Dance

Atlantic City?

1896

Delorita

n/a

Pastorall

England

1713

Dance Master: Mr Issac

The Royal, Rigadoon, Princess, Union, $Pastorale*

Patch - Tanz

n/a

n/a

Jewish

Jewish Folk Dance, Folk Dance, Square

Pattan' Juba

USA

n/a

See Juba!

William Henry Lane

Patti - Cake Jive

USA

1950s

n/a

Hand Jive?

Pavane

Italy

1508

aka:Passamesa & Padovana

Pavin, Panicin, Stately, Court, Contra

Pavanilla Italiana

Italy

1608

aka: Pavane

Pavane, Passamessa

Pavlova Gavotte

France

1913

Anna Pavlova

Gavotte, Pays de Gap

Peabody

New York

1915

William Frank Peabody (Lt.- N.Y.P.D.)

Foxtrot, One-Step, Quickstep, March, Ragtime

Peacock Dance

Italy

1508

see Pavane

Pavane

Peacock Strut

United Kingdom

1910s

Similar to the Turkey Trot

Ballin The Jack, Baltimore Buzz etc.

Peckin

Los Angeles, CA

1934

Chocolateers, Mae Diggs/ Nicholas Bros.

Introduced at Sebastian's Cotton Club in Los Angeles-1934: also Cotton Club Express-1937, Yanvallou Dance, Dahomean Dance

Pedestal Dance

USA

1800s

Gigue and Minstrel dancers

See Gigue, Tap, Clog, Henry Dixey

Pee Wee Herman Dance

USA

1980s

Pee Wee Herman

Running Man, Cabbage Patch, Electric Slide, Centipede, The Ant, Rock Lobster, Safety Dance

Peek A Bo Dance

n/a

1940s

Amateur Strippers

Strip, Burlesque

Peelin' The Peach

New York

1937

n/a

Pose n' Peck, Lindy, Big Apple, Little Apple, Truckin, Swing

Pelota

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Pericon

Argentina

n/a

Argentina's Nat'l. Dance

Folk, Waltz, Tango, Gaucho

Periconas

Chili

n/a

(Quellón region)

may be related to Pericon

Périgourdine

Périgord, France

old?

sung by dancers in duple time

n/a

Pernambuco ?

n/a

n/a

n/a

Ray Bolger

Peruvian Dance

Peru

n/a

n/a

Indian, Andalusian, Spanish, Ballet, Minuet, Folk

Phaiakian Dance

Greek?

n/a

n/a

n/a

Philadelphia Boston

n/a

c.1910s

(a one step waltz)

aka: One Step Waltz / Long Boston / Drop Step, Berceuse / Cradle Boston

Philadelphia Drag

Philly?

1913?

Anna Wheaton & Sydney Grant

Varsity Drag, Walkin The Dog, Gilda Glide, Hoffman Glide, Gaby Glide

Piccolino, The

USA

1930s

Fred Astaire, Top Hat

Carioca, Yam, Continental

Pickford Polka

New York

?

Oscar Duryea

Created For Mary Pickford

Pickin' Cotton

New York

1928

n/a

George White, Ann Pennington

Pie De Jibao

Spain

1560

Jibado (hunchbacked), Danced as Couples

Spanish Dance, Jibado, Court

Pigeon Walk

n/a

1912

James V. Monaco

this was a Fox-trot

Piva

Italy

1400s?

Peasant dance, Dbl steps to quick tempo.

Court, Musette, Hornpipe, Ballo, Sokti

Plantation Dance

n/a

1800s?

n/a

n/a

Plugge-dansen

Holland

n/a

n/a

a kind of Fandango

Plymouth Rock, the

USA

1956

Arthur Murray

n/a

Polacco

Mazovie, Poland

n/a

Sister dance of the Mazourka

See Mazourka

Polka

Czechoslovakia

1822

Anna Chadimová-Slezak (Bohemian)

Galop, Redowa, Mazurka, Rabb, Mazourka, Gavotte, Pulka

Polka, Grecian Bend

USA?

1850s

Morlacchi

Galop, Redowa, Mazurka, Rabb, Mazourka, Gavotte, Pulka, Ballet

Polka Tremblante

Bohemia

1840s?

See Polka

Galop, Redowa, Mazurka, Rabb, Mazourka, Gavotte, Pulka

Polka-Mazur (Polka Mazourka)

Russia

1830

Princess Marie Nicolaewna. (Basically a waltz, even though the name)

Galop, Redowa, Mazurka, Rabb, Waltz, Mazourka, Gavotte, Pulka

Polka Redowa

n/a

1852

n/a

n/a

Polonaise

Poland

1585

Originally a Military March.

War, March, Waltz, Russian, Mazurka. Women came into the dance in the 1645.

Polovetzian Dances

n/a

n/a

n/a

Choral dances

Pols

Sweden

n/a

mix of Swedish and Norwegian country dance

n/a

Polska

Sweden

n/a

3/4

Hambo, Polskor, Bingsjöpolska, Bodapolska, Orsapolska, Rättvikspolska, Slängpolska, Wedding,

Polskor

Scandinavia

n/a

couples dance aka: Polska

n/a

Pompeiien Dance

Pompeii?

n/a

aka: Pompeien dance

Salome, Belly dance

Pop Goes the Weasel

England

n/a

n/a

Country Dance, Square Dance, Hornpipe, VA. Reel, De Coverly

Pordon Dantza

Basque?

n/a

aka: Lance Dance

Battle of Beotibar, edo carrica dantza

Porro

Columbia

n/a

similar to Rumba, 2/4

Rumba

Port-au-Prince

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Pose and a Peck

New York?

1937

Arthur Murray

Swing, Peelin' The Peach, Suzy-Q

Posin'

New York?

1930's

Arthur Murray?

Swing, Peckin', Truckin, Big Apple, Jitterbug

Possum Trot

n/a

1910s

Consisted of a series of fast, flat hops

n/a

Praise The Lord Pass, the Ammunition

USA

1940's

Arthur Murray

Posin, Pose and A Peck, Kick The Mule, Suzy Q, Big Apple, Little Apple.

Mobile Prance, the

n/a

1909

[see Sheet Music Cover]

Prance, Two-Step, March

Prestilio

Portugal

1700s

n/a

Folia, Fado, Mouresca, Baixa

Princess Rajah Dance

USA

C.1904

American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. 1904

Edison, Biograph, Mutoscope films, Belly, Turkish

Pull It, the

USA

c.1910s

Similar to the Break-Away in Lindy Hop (Eph & Dinah Skits)

Medicine Shows, Gillies, Lindy

Push

Tulsa, Oklahoma

1968?

aka: Tulsa / Texas Push

Whip, West Coast, Shag, Swing, Lindy, Jitterbug

Pussyfoot Prance

n/a

191?

[see Sheet Music Cover]

n/a

Pyrrhic Dance

Greece

B.C.

(aka: Armed Dance), Goddess Rhea, Cervantes

War, Bracelet, Bacchanalia, Apollo & Rhea, Hymenaea, Labyrinth, Mythology, men in armor