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  • Folk dance – a trio of Irish Stepdancers performing in competition

  • Folk dance in Estonia

  • A contemporary dancer performs a stag split leap

  • Dance partnering – a male dancer assists a female dancer in performing an arabesque, as part of a classical pas de deux

  • Acrobatic dance – an acro dancer performs a front aerial

  • A dancer performs a "toe rise", in which she rises from a kneeling position to a standing position on the tops of her feet

  • Social dance – dancers at a juke joint dance the Jitterbug, an early 20th century dance that would go on to influence swing, jive, and jazz dance

  • Latin Ballroom dancers perform the Tango

  • Gumboot dance evolved from the stomping signals used as coded communication between labourers in South African mines

  • Harlequin and Columbina from the mime theater in Copenhagen, Denmark

  • A hip-hop dancer demonstrates popping

  • Erotic dance – a pole dancer performs a routine

  • Prop dance – a fire dancer performance

  • Modern dance – a female dancer performs a leg split while balanced on the back of her partner

  • Stage dance – a professional dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre

  • A nineteenth century artist's representation of a Flamenco dancer

  • Ritual dance – Armenian folk dancers celebrate a neo-pagan new year

  • A latin ballroom couple perform a Samba routine at a dancesport event

  • Folk dance – some dance traditions travel with immigrant communities, as with this festival dance performed by a Polish community in Turkey

  • A ballet dancer performs a standing side split

  • Street dance – a Breakdancer performs a handstand trick

  • Indian classical dancer

  • Ballet class of young girls wearing leotards and skirts in 2017

  • Kebagh dance from Pagar Alam, Indonesia

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