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  2. Line dance - Wikipedia

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    The Chicken Dance is an example of a line dance adopted by the Mod revival during the 1980s. [18] The music video for the 1990 Billy Ray Cyrus song "Achy Breaky Heart" has been credited for launching line dancing into the mainstream. [2] [19] [20] [21] In the 1990s, the hit Spanish dance song "Macarena" inspired a popular line dance. [22]

  3. Conga line - Wikipedia

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    A conga line formed during a Christmas disco party. The conga line is a novelty line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same name and became popular in the US in the 1930s and 1950s. In order to perform the dance, dancers form a long, processing line, which would usually turn into a circle.

  4. Tumbao - Wikipedia

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    In music of Afro-Cuban origin, tumbao is the basic rhythm played on the bass. In North America, the basic conga drum pattern used in popular music is also called tumbao [citation needed]. In the contemporary form of Cuban popular dance music known as timba, piano guajeos are known as tumbaos. [1]

  5. Dance move - Wikipedia

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    "A line dance is made up of a number of movements called steps. Each step is given a name so teachers can tell dancers to perform this step when teaching a dance. The most well known is the grapevine (or vine for short), a four-count movement to the side." [citation needed] [3]

  6. Bulgarian folk dance - Wikipedia

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    Many Bulgarian dances are line dances, with the dancers holding hands in a straight or curved line, facing in toward the center of the dance space.Originally men and women danced in separate lines, or in a gender-segregated line in which the last woman and first man held opposite ends of a handkerchief, to avoid gender contact but today men and women often dance in mixed lines.

  7. List of dance styles - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .

  8. Batuque (Cape Verde) - Wikipedia

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    In the second movement, while the players perform the rhythm and sing in unison, the dancer changes the dancing. Now, the dancing (called da ku tornu [dɐ ku ˈtoɾnu]) is made with a hip swing managed through the quick flexion of the knees, accompanying the rhythm.

  9. The Stroll - Wikipedia

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    The Stroll was both a slow rock 'n' roll dance [1] and a song that was popular in the late 1950s. [2] Billboard first reported that "The Stroll" might herald a new dance craze similar to the "Big Apple" in December 1957. [3] [4] In the dance two lines of dancers, men on one side and women on the other, face each other, moving in place to the music.