* Bar ( dance ), a form of dance that originated in Western Armenia and continue to be found in modern Turkey.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

Egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them without damaging any eggs which originated in Germany.

The Flamenco dance style derives much from Romani dances that have elements that can be traced all the way back to northern India, from where the Romani originated, and can still be seen there in the present day Kathak dance.

The term " folk dance " is sometimes applied to dances of historical importance in European culture and history ; typically originated before 20th century.

The term " folk dance " is reserved for dances which are to a significant degree bound by tradition and originated in the times when the distinction existed between the

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the American city of Chicago in the early 1980s.

Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance.

The Love Parade () was a popular electronic dance music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany.

The same dance in Germany was called " Reigen " and may have originated from devotional dances at early Christian festivals.

Ragga originated in Jamaica during the 1980s, at the same time that electronic dance music's popularity was increasing globally.

Although samba exists throughout Brazil – especially in the states of Bahia, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo – in the form of various popular rhythms and dances that originated from the regional batuque, a type of music and associated dance form from Cape Verde, the samba is most frequently identified as a musical expression of urban Rio de Janeiro, where it was born and developed between the end of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.

Trip hop may have originated in the mid-1980s in Bristol, UK, during a time when American hip hop started to gain increasing popularity there along with the then exploding popularity of the house music and dance scene.

Rave, rave dance, and rave party are parties that originated mostly because of acid house parties, which featured electronic music and light shows.

* Brazilian Tango, also called maxixe, a music / dance originated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1868.

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form.

Belly dance, or Raqs Sharqi ( literally: oriental dancing ) may have originated in Egypt, and today the country is considered the international center of the art.

Larger dances sometimes request a strict western-style dress code, which originated in the late ' 50s and early ' 60s and is known as " traditional square dance attire ", although it was not traditional before that time.

Contemporary St. Louis shag, for instance, ( an eight-count dance ) does not look much like contemporary Carolina Shag, though both originated in the Swing era of the 1930s and 40s.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

Hand in hand with the legislative program is the industry's self originated and directed safety program.

Finally, the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More's time, although it was not accepted by all the theologian-philosophers of the Middle Ages.

It originated with the Wissahickon Section.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

The name Pueblo originated with the Spanish explorers, who referred to their particular style of villages.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

An account of the war by the Byzantine Theophylact Simocatta sentimentalises the reasons behind the conflict, claiming it originated with Alboin's vain courting and subsequent kidnapping of Cunimund's daughter Rosamund, that Alboin proceeded then to marry.

The Proverbs of Alfred, a thirteenth-century work, contains sayings that are not likely to have originated with Alfred but attest to his posthumous medieval reputation for wisdom.

Else Christensen's Odinism, which is sometimes identified with the term Ásatrú, originated around the same period.

Hindu astrology originated with western astrology.

The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.

The 1940 discovery of a lost work by Vincent of Lérins, which bears a striking similarity to much of the language of the Athanasian Creed, have led many to conclude that the creed originated either with Vincent or with his students.

Afrobeat originated from the southern part of Nigeria in the 1960s where Kuti experimented with many different forms of contemporary music of the time.

One example of this is the subcategory of Cajun dances that originated in Acadiana, with branches reaching both coasts of the United States.

The breed originated in central and upper Belgium in the nineteenth century, from crossing local breeds with a Shorthorn breed of cattle from the United Kingdom.

The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1996 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate the team to Baltimore.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

The name originated from the Basic Input Output System used in the CP / M operating system ( released in 1976 ), where the BIOS was loaded from disk, with only a small boot loader program stored in read-only memory.

This element is shared with and originated in Tunnels and Trolls.

Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted ( it was heavy, difficult to transport and the costs of converting it to stock feed were rarely worth the effort ).