Dancing Illustrated A-Z

A page of different dance forms with cool stick figure graphics.

For keeping fit, relaxing and socialising - dance is an excellent hobby to take up.

The page includes a selection of types for people who dance or might be thinking about it.  Some dances require partners and others are more solo performance art.

​So whatever your taste in melody, movement and fashion - let's face the music and dance!

Ballet

A graceful and strenuous dance form - ballet is a demanding skill. 


Few make it from junior ballet school into the professional circuit. From there is it hard demanding work to become a member of a prestigious ballet company.

Ballet dancer holding pose

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Baton Twirling

Baton twirling is a little like juggling and dancing combined.  

​Precision movements as part of a team and the need to keep smiling even during the trickier parts.
Baton Twirling Stick Figure is a fun hand-drawn design featuring graceful twirling moves and action.

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Belly Dancing

Also known as Turkish dancing.

This is usually a solo performance with a lady in revealing clothing combining dance movements with sex appeal.  And they call the West decadent!

The dance required much studying in order to get the picture looking right.
Belly dancing - a belly dancer shows a pose

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Cheerleading

Cheerleading is not just for ladies - men can do this fun activity too. 


​Although the traditional image is of an all girl cheerleading team dancing on the touchline while all American jocks run up and down a pitch with a football.


Here is a happy cheerleader with pom poms - leaping in the air and supporting the team.


Go team, go!

Cheerleader Leaping Stick Figure brings a burst of color and charm in a clean, hand-drawn stickman style. A lively mid-air pose that cheerleading fans will recognise instantly.

Cheerleader Leaping Stick Figure Gifts >>

Hula Dancing

The hula dancer below wears a flower in hair, coconuts, and the essential grass skirt. 

​This is a proper dance somewhat lost in cultural appropriation and tourist desires over the years.  For most Westerners some gentle swaying, warm weather and rum will help.

Jazz Hands

It should be jazz dancing but this is the nearest image I have. A fun way to express silent applause.

Jazz Hands Stickman is a fun hand drawn image showing a person waving their hands in the air for a jazz dance move or silent applause.

Jazz Hands Stickman Gifts >>

Maypole Dancing

A pole in the ground has coloured ribbons tied to the top of it.

Each dancer holds a ribbon and dances in and out around the pole.

​A traditional Spring dance to celebrate the end of the winter and the new growing season.
Maypole dancers dance around the maypole in the traditional May Day celebration. They wear flowers in their hair and hold brightly coloured ribbons attached to the tall wooden pole in this fun illustration to celebrate Maypole Dancing.

Maypole Dancing Gifts >>

Morris Dancing

Here are some fine-looking Morris Men dancing around in their traditional gear with handkerchiefs, hats and bells on their legs.
Morris Men doing Morris dancing - four stickmen Morris dancers with hankies

Morris Dancing Gifts >>

Pole Dancing

Aside from the more adult entertainment market, pole dancing is also a popular keep fit activity.
Pole Dancing design features a pole and a pole dancer showcasing her moves. This fun graphic salutes the gymnastic fitness and flexibility of pole dancing.

Pole Dancing Gifts >>

Salsa

Exciting, glamorous, sexy.  Salsa is exactly what dancing should be about.
Salsa Dancing Figures is a fun hand-drawn design showing a stickman and his female companion dancing salsa style.

Salsa Dancing Gifts >>

Voguing

Voguing has been around for a while bubbling under the mainstream.

Throwing shapes and athletic poses in a mish-mash of ballroom styles, voguing is ideal for expressing power, individuality and freedom of expression.

Making a political statement through dance with attention getting moves - vogue is a cool way to sock it to the old guard.

Madonna ripped off the Vogue movement for a while before she moved on to the next five minute thing.
A vogue dancer throws a cool voguing pose in bright in-your-face graphic style.

Voguing Gifts >>

The Dance is Over

That is all the dance moves I got. Lots more to come as they get drawn. The fun of music, exercise, suppleness, fashion and that all-round good feeling that comes from letting your body move - that's dancing.


Created by Mark Ewbie. Last Updated: February 4, 2026.