Lists of Dances

Articles at HoraWiki that are lists of dances sharing some characteristic.

If you create or modify a dance list, you should find any dances in that list that have their own page and update the "Dancelists" line at the bottom.

Please keep this list of lists in alphabetical order.

• Animal dances - Dances named after an animal.

• Called dances - Dances where a leader controls the dancers by signaling upcoming steps.

• Circle-Couple Dances - Dances done partially in circles and partially with a partner.

• Dances from the Diwan - Dances done to music whose lyrics are drawn from the Diwan.

• Dances Played at the First Karmiel Festival - 20 dances chosen to be done by everyone at the first Karmiel festival.

• Dances with evocative music - Dances whose music reminds us of other songs, at least briefly.

• "Double" dances - Instances where two or more choreographies exist to the same or to very similar music.

• Eponymous Dances - Dances named after human beings.

• First Creations - The first dance created by each choreographer.

• First Steps - Dances that are the first to use a specific step.

• Instrument dances - Dances named after an instrument.

• Leap Dances - In honor of the Gregorian leap year calendar, many dances that include a leap step.

• Minimal-Contact Partner Dances - Partner dances for use in virtual sessions.

• Moshe Eskayo's dances - Dances choreographed by Moshe Eskayo, originally prepared for Hora Shalosh

• Moshiko's descendants - Dances created for the descendants of Moshiko Halevy.

• Music vs Dance - Dances that have some unusual connection with their music.

• Original Music - Dances that are usually done to a version of the music adapted from an original in another language.

• Problem Solver Dances - Dances treated in the Folk Dance Problem Solver, a publication of The Society of Folk Dance Historians

• "Regular" dances - Dances with one step for every count of the music.

• Unusual Meters - Dances to songs with unusual meter, phrasing, or musical construction.

• Unusual Sequences - Dances with an unusual sequence of steps.

• World Premiers - Dances along with the first-ever introduction of each.

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Technical note: This page is different from Category:Dance Lists, which is an automatically-maintained list of all pages that contain the command "[[Category:Dance Lists]]". This page is better; it supplies a description of each list. Arguably the category page should go away.