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Dance Name	Origin	Date	Creator / Choreographer	Note: See Also
Valse	Germany	1800	"La Valse a deux temps"	Waltz, Boston, Landler
Valse Belvedere	London?	1908	Created by Charles Gardner	n/a
Valse Chaloupe	Paris		Created by Art Students of the Latin Quarter in Paris and danced at the Montmarte	Basically just a Lively Tango with the Luncheon Lurch
Valses chilotes	Chili	n/a	n/a	Valse
Valse Deshabille	n/a	1902	Created by Miss Karina	Burlesque, Edison Silent Films
Valse a Deaux Temps	n/a	1830s	see: Boston, Valse, Waltz, Volta, Gallop	Waltz, Boston, Landler, Valse, Gallop
Valse L' American	Paris	1866	n/a	Waltz, Boston, Landler, Valse
Valse Maurice	New York	1918-?	Maurice and Walton	Waltz, Boston, Landler
Valse Viennese, the	London?	1908	Created by Mme. Adele Collier	Waltz, Valse, a Novelty dance
Vampire Dance, The	USA	1913	Alice Eis & Bert French	1913 "the Vampire-Movie" was a Ballroom specialty
Varities Parisienne, Les	Paris	c.1800s	Professor J. Végas, Society of Professors of Dancing (New Orleans)	Quadrille
Varsity Drag, The	New York	1920's	Donald Tomkins, Good News Play	Slow Drag, Collegiate, Zelma O'neil
Varsouviene	Warsaw	1850	in Honor of Mt. Vesuvius	Little Foot Dance, Schottische
Viejitos, Dance of the	Mexico	n/q	Childrens Masked dance in respect of the old.	Oaxaca, Dance of the Hortelanos, Astucia, Urpa
Veith	Germany	n/a	aka: Tarantella	Tarantella, St. Vitus, Danse de St. Guy, La Danse de St. Jean
Veleta	n/a	n/a	Created by Arthur Morris, Sequence Dance	Military Two-Step, Square, Cuckoo Veleta, Territorial 2- Step
Venado (Dance of the)	Guatemala	1920s	n/a	Snake Dance, Mask Dance
Venus, the	usa?	c.1914	Dance Masters of America	n/a
Verdiales	Málaga, Spain	n/a	Folk Dance	Spanish Dance
Vernacular Dance	USA	1860's	A homegrown dance, usually Afro-American in form or style. Vernacular dance sometimes has a Creator, sometime not. Primaraily American Negro dances rather than American-Indian, Irish, French, Russian or English, but sometimes ethnic in nature.	Lindy Hop, Jazz, Tap, Mooch, Truckin, Slow Drag, Snake Hips, Shimmy, Black Bottom, etc.
Vestal, Persian	Persia?	1890's?	n/a	Foreman Hall
Vidinsko Horo	NO. Bulgaria	n/a	Vlach Peoples	Vlasko,
Vikivaka	Iceland	n/a	n/a	Faroe, Hringbrot
Villanelle	Italy?	1580	Name Vilano Means Peasant, 3/4	Jig, Round, Country
Villanélla	Italy	n/a	see above	Jig, Round, Country
Villão	Portugal	1500s	n/a	Baixa, Fado, Mouresca
Villeika	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Viper's Drag	USA	1930	Cab Calloway	Slow Drag,
Virginia Essence	USA	1800's?	forerunner of the Soft Shoe routine	(Billy Kersands, Greenlee - Drayton), Tap, Clog
Virginia Reel (s)	England	1830-1890	Sir Roger DeCoverly	Dance After the Husking
Viennese Waltz	Vienna	1776	"Martins-Una Cosa Rara"	Waltz, Boston, Landler Valse, Volta, Ballroom, Langaus
Virelai	France	1800s?	n/a	Firlefei, Hoppaldei ?
Vlasko	Bulgaria	n/a	Traditional Dance of the Vlachs	Vidinsko Horo
Volta	Italy	1556	n/a	Waltz, Boston, Landler, Valse, Volte, Walzen, Waller
Volte	France	1600s	n/a	Waltz, Boston, Volta,Landler, Valse
Vogue	Harlem & Paris France	1987	Drag Queens, Vogue Magazine	Picture Posing style dance, see film 1990 - Paris Is Burning, Madonna Song

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