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Explore 500 years of dance history through interactive timelines, cultural narratives, and the world's most comprehensive dance figure reference. From Renaissance court dances to modern ballroom and Latin.
Interactive Experience
Watch Dance Evolve Across Centuries
Our interactive timeline lets you explore how dance genres emerged, evolved, merged, and influenced each other across 500 years of history. Slide through time and watch the dance world transform.
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Library of Dance
The most comprehensive cross-referenced dance figure database ever assembled. 177 primary sources spanning 500 years, unified into one searchable system.
Line of Dance
The counterclockwise path dancers travel around the floor — and the thread that connects every tradition, from Renaissance courts to modern ballrooms.
Life of Dance
For those on the journey to 10,000 hours. LODance organizes your entire dance life — practice tracking, teacher connections, competition preparation.
Lineage of Dance
The family tree of dance styles. See how the Waltz emerged from the German Ländler, how Tango evolved from African and European roots, how modern Quickstep traces back to foxtrot pioneers.
Explore by Genre
Centuries of Movement
International Standard
1920s-Present
International Latin
1930s-Present
American Smooth
1930s-Present
Renaissance Court
1500s-1600s
Baroque Court
1600s-1700s
Regency Country
1600s-1800s
Gilded Age Ballroom
1800s-1900s
Argentine Tango
1880s-Present
Swing
1920s-Present
Coming Soon
The Rosetta Stone of Dance
The same figure appears in ISTD, DVIDA, USA Dance, and WDSF syllabi — each with different names, levels, and step notation. LODance cross-references them all. One figure, every perspective.
Natural Turn
Available soon on iOS and Android