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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