If I cheat a bit and add the dance names that are mentioned in the Dance To The Music thread, the list of dance names would include:

*29. waltzes

*30."the 'Barn Dance'{as , this is "done to schottische and march tunes by large circles where couples would form for only 16 bars and then separate}"

*31.Gay Gordons

*32.Highland Schottische

*33.Evening Three Step

*34.Military Two Step

*35.Gypsy Tap

*36.Charmaine

*37.Foxtrot

*38.Quickstep

*39.The Lancers {described as a quadrille}

*40.The First Set {decribed as a quadrille}

41.Morris Dancing {from reading other Mudcat threads, I gather that there are many different types of Morris dances; and I'm sure the same goes for the other general dance names I'll list or have already listed}

42. Ballet

43. Contradanza; Country dance {I'm not sure if these are general or specific dance names}

44. Broom Dance

45. The Mazurka

46. The Polka

47.The Schottische {already mentioned in #32, but there's also this quote given in that thread-
"The highland (or Balmoral) schottische was a later (1880) Scottish invention and the military schottische is American." so maybe this referent was to the the American one ??

48.The Tango

49. The Cha Cha

50.The Hitch Hike

51 The Football

52.The Electric Slide

53.The Bump

54.The Running Man

55.The Snake

56.The Harum Scarum

57.The Lesghinka

58.The Dabkah

59.The Swim

60.The Philly

61. The Philly Dog {which apprently was different than The Philly or The Dog}

62.The Duck

63.The Freddy

64.The Lindy Hop

65. The Jitterbug

66.The Texas Tommy

67.The Hop {which I assume is different than the Lindy Hop ??}

67.The Breakaway

68.Tap Dancing

There was also mention of reels and jigs and I suppose they could be given #69 and #70 though I gather these are general categories of dances and not specific dance names.

In addition, there was mention on that thread of "swing dances" and "ballroom dances". I think "ballroom dances" may be tooo general a category to include in this list. I also think that "swing dances" is a general category that seems to me to be an updated reference for jitterbug dance such as the Lindy Hop. So I'm mentioning "swing" but I've decided not to give it a specific number.

So, according to my calculation, so far 70 dances are listed on this thread of 1000 dances.

So there's 930 dances more to go!

[* are from Rowan's 09 Oct 06 - 02:46 AM postto the Dance to The Music thread; I may have confused the general dance terms he listed with specific dances or vice versa]