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Dance Style Timeline

The document outlines the timeline of the development of various dance styles from 400 BCE to the present. It traces the origins and periods of popularity of numerous dance forms including Indian classical dance, ballet, baroque period dances, tap dance, tango, jazz dance, swing dance, hip hop dance, disco, and many modern street and social dances. The timeline shows the evolution of dance styles across different historical periods and regions over the past two millennia.

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Dance Style Timeline

The document outlines the timeline of the development of various dance styles from 400 BCE to the present. It traces the origins and periods of popularity of numerous dance forms including Indian classical dance, ballet, baroque period dances, tap dance, tango, jazz dance, swing dance, hip hop dance, disco, and many modern street and social dances. The timeline shows the evolution of dance styles across different historical periods and regions over the past two millennia.

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DANCE STYLE TIMELINE

TIMELINE DANCE STYLE


4OO BCE Indian Classical Dance
15th Century Ballet
1600-1750 Baroque Period
Early 16th Century Capoeira
Late 16th Century & Early 17th Century Masque
1795-1918 Vintage Dance
1795-1925 Classical Persian Dance
1790-1825 Regency Dance
Late 18th Century Bolero, Flamenco
Mid 1800s Tap Dance
1876 Cake Walk
1890s Tango
1892 Calypso
1895-1918 Animal Dance:
 Horse Trot
 Kangaroo Hop
 Turkey Trot
 Duck Waddle
 Chicken Scratch
 Grizzly Bear
1898 Merengue
TH
19 Century English Country Dance
Late 19th Century  Samba
 Argentine Tango
 Modern Dance
1900s  Acrobatic Dance
 Black Bottom
 Jazz Dance
 Bounce
1910s  Texas Tommy
 Foxtrot
1911 Texas Swingout
1920s Swing Dance, Balboa
1926 Charleston
1927 Lindy Hop
Early 1930s Jive
1930s Moonwalk
1940s  Samba de Gafieira
 Mambo
 East Coast Swing:
o Boogie Woogie
o Rock and Roll
o Modern Jive
o Jive
DANCE STYLE TIMELINE
o Collegiate shag
1945 Bebop/bop Dance
1948 Line Dance
1950s  Skanting Dance
 Hand Jive
 Contemporary
1953 Cha-Cha
Early 1960s Detroit Ballroom
1960s  Swing Dance
 Locking
 Popping (Strobing, Waving, Tutting)
 Turfing
1960-1970 Liturgical Dance
1967 Robot Dancing
1970s  Salsa
 Chicago Stepping
 B-boying
 Crip Walk/ Clown Walk
 Electric Boogaloo
 Hip Hop Dance
 Liquid and Digits
 Disco Dance (House Dance, Waacking, and
Hustle)
1972 Contact Improvisation
1980s  Jacking
 Voguing
 Moshing
 Zouk
Late 1980s Melbourne Shuffle, Leroc
1982 Twerking
1987 Cabbage Patch Dance
1990s Memphis Jookin’, Zumba
1997 Jumpstyle
Early 20th Century Jitterbug Dance
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Dance, Rumba
Early 2000s Krumping, Electro Dance
Mid 2000s Jerkin’, Electro Dance
2003 Flash Mob
2008 Single Ladies Dance
2012 Gangnam Style
Present ---------------------

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