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In an ever-changing world, some basic human traditions and behaviors endure. For over a century, National Geographic has been capturing people around the world as they move and express themselves through dance.
Two entertainers perform an East Indian dance in April 1916.
Photograph by Franklin Price Knott, National Geographic
Children dance in front of a shop in Caracas, Venezuela.
Photograph courtesy Magnum Photos
A young girl performs a sword dance over a crossed saber and scabbard in Scotland, 1957.
Photograph by Kathleen Revis, National Geographic
Teenage girls dance in evening gowns at a 1993 prom in Stearns, Kentucky.
Photograph by Karen Kasmauski, National Geographic
Street dancers perform a skirt dance in Delhi, India, in April 1907.
Photograph by Eliza R. Scidmore, National Geographic
Instructors tango during a class at the Teatro Nuovo dance studio in Torino, Italy.
Photograph by William Allard, National Geographic
Young Tutsi boys dance and reenact "bow-and-arrow combat" in 1939 Rwanda.
Photograph by Franz Stoedtner, National Geographic
Women dance during morning worship at Bethlehem Abhaya Bhavan Charitable Society in Kerala, India.
Photograph by Lynn Johnson, National Geographic
An Egyptian belly dancer performs for tourists in a Cairo nightclub in May 1972.
Photograph by Winfield I. Parks Jr., National Geographic
Ballet students practice under the eye of a Russian instructor in Cairo, Egypt, in May 1972.
Photograph by Winfield I. Parks Jr., National Geographic
Locals stage a Days of '98 show for visitors to a gold-rush community in Skagway, Alaska, in June 1965.
Photograph by W.E. Garrett, National Geographic
Dancers at a Chicago nightclub move to the music in April 1978.
Photograph by Steve Raymer, National Geographic