Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance

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This WikiProject aims primarily to categorize and organize the various Dance related articles. A large majority of them are currently stubs, or in desperate need of work, so through this project we hope to not only organize the articles appropriately, but also to expand those that need help. And well, to get rid of all those pesky red links. :-)

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• /Strategy
• /Assessment
• /Redlinks
• /Substubs

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of dance. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):

1. What's missing?
2. Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
3. Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise dance-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

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Improve the project

• Update the project pages, archive clutter, and make use of the latest automation available
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• Come up with new ones

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• Monitor discussions on talk pages of articles covered by the project. Recent changes to the project's talk pages
• Create a new article.

• Expand some of the articles (check out Category:Dance stubs or some of its subcategories), always respecting Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View Policy. Also, check the Wikipedia: Manual of Style.
• Add references to articles which need referencing improving. Biographies of living persons are a particular priority.
• Assess some of the Unassessed Dance articles, using the criteria at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance/Assessment. Update the project banner on the relevant talk page.

• Check the talk page for requests for help.
• Check the to do list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance/to do
• You can look at the project's popular pages list to identify particularly high-profile articles that could be improved.

Red links and wanted articles should be inserted on the redlinks list

Did you know

• 25 Apr 2025 – Miss Behave's Mavericks (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Cunard (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Apr 2025 – Paul Tiulana (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by GreenLipstickLesbian (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 22 Apr 2025 – Shannon Durig (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LastJabberwocky (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
• 19 Apr 2025 – Sahar Hashmi (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CNMall41 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
• 02 May 2025 – Madi Monroe (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Netherzone (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 09 May 2025; see discussion (10 participants)
• 01 May 2025 – Kat Mon Dieu (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Golem08 (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 08 May 2025; see discussion (5 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 30 Apr 2025 – Crossovers (dance) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by CoconutOctopus (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 07 May 2025 was deleted
• 27 Apr 2025 – Ministry of Dance (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by The editor next door (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 28 Apr 2025 – Category:Ballets set in antiquity (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 25 Apr 2025 – Patrick Bissell (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 16 Oct 2024 – Sandiwara (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Toneel by Ariandi Lie (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Oct 2024 – Toneel (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sandiwara by Ariandi Lie (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 10 Mar 2025 – Pina Bausch (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Laterthanyouthink (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Oct 2024 – Two-step (dance move) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Altenmann (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Nov 2023 – Polish National Ballet (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Aug 2022 – Skinner Releasing Technique (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Scyrme (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 05 May 2025 – Draft:Djeneba Aduayom (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DGGONZALEZ1 (t · c)
• 03 May 2025 – Draft:Fredie Pedersen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DaneKnowledge (t · c)
• 24 Apr 2025 – Draft:Madhusree Hatial (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tan0777 (t · c)
• 21 Apr 2025 – Draft:Lee Ah-in (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kops2222 (t · c)
• 10 Apr 2025 – Draft:Bogdan Szyber and Carina Reich (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dreamvideo2244 (t · c)
• 08 Apr 2025 – Draft:Adam Vincent Clarke (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MediaKyle (t · c)
• 05 Apr 2025 – Draft:Joseph Aumeer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hpx6300 (t · c)
• 02 Apr 2025 – Draft:The Dallas Conservatory (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2603:7000:2702:4E0:84AD:D143:EAA4:9E92 (t · c)
• 23 Mar 2025 – Draft:W. Merle Connell (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 69.181.17.113 (t · c)
• 23 Mar 2025 – Draft:World of Street Woman Fighter (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nhoiialmanzor (t · c)

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See also:

• WikiProject Theatre News
• WikiProject Musical Theatre News

These should be the "main" articles regarding various types of dance that the rest of the articles are worked off of- they should also have categories backing them up as well.

• Dance - Main parent article
  • 20th century concert dance
    • Modern dance
  • Australian Contemporary Dance
  • Breakdance
  • Ballet
  • Ballroom dance
  • Ceremonial dance
  • Competitive dance
  • Folk dance (Traditional dance redirects to Folk dance)
  • Historical dance
  • Latin dances
  • Street dance
    • Hip hop dance
  • Swing dance
  • Tap dance

• Dance education
  • Dance studio
  • Auditions, common schools (Juilliard)
• Dance competition
  • Dance expressions, Hall of Fame Dance Challenge

Country and Western dance

• Concert dance / Performance dance
  • Competitive dance

• Social dance
• Participation dance
  • Ceremonial dance
  • Traditional dance (now it redirects to Folk Dance)

• Formalized/Standardized Dances vs. Informal/Non-standardized/social dances

For more information about Version 1.0 assessments, see WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP.

• /Assessment
  • Category:WikiProject Dance articles
    • Category:Dance articles by quality
      • Category:FA-Class Dance articles
      • Category:A-Class Dance articles
      • Category:GA-Class Dance articles
      • Category:B-Class Dance articles
      • Category:Start-Class Dance articles
      • Category:Stub-Class Dance articles
      • Category:Unassessed Dance articles
      • Category:List-Class Dance articles
    • Category:Dance articles by importance
      • Category:Top-importance Dance articles
      • Category:High-importance Dance articles
      • Category:Mid-importance Dance articles
      • Category:Low-importance Dance articles
      • Category:Unknown-importance Dance articles
  • Category:NA-Class Dance articles

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Dance}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

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The following araticles appeared on the Main page in the Did you know section

• Rolf de Maré - 7 November 2006
• Ukrainian dance - 1 March 2006

The {{WikiProject Dance}} template, which creates this banner, should be placed on the talk page of all dance articles that are part of this project:

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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Dance, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Dance and Dance-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. WikiProject Dance To-do list: To nominate at WP:FAC: To improve to Featured standard: To nominate as a Good article: To expand: 18th century dance - 20th century ballet - Bolero - Choreography on Broadway - Dance education - English ballet - Indian classical dance - Italian ballet - List of dance companies - Meg Stuart - Opera ballet - Sasha Waltz - Scotch reel - Set dance - Physically integrated dance To cleanup: Contra dance - Salsa (dance) - Dandiya - Lead and follow To unbias: To check for copyvios: To merge: List of dancers and List of dance personalities‎ as per AfD discussion Substubs needing expansion: see /substubs To destub: Amir Hossain Babu - Canada Dance Festival - Dance etiquette - Flash dance - more Needing references: Chorus line - specifically verifying that each girl actually started out as a chorine To create: Broadway dance - Country Western Dance International - Dance and cinema - Dance and society - German folk dancing - Latin swing - Post-structuralist ballet - Push (dance) - Salon dance - Shuffle dance - Swing boogie - World Dance Alliance - Xavier Le Roy - more Wanted Pics/Graphics: Category:Dance articles needing images

• {{Infobox dancer}} should be placed at the top of all articles about people in dance and filled in as far as possible
• {{Infobox ballet}} should be placed at the top of all articles about different choreographed ballets and filled in as far as possible

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