But the momentum it generates on a dance floor is completely contemporary.
She's never far from bursting into a song and dance routine and generates a huge amount of fun in the room while never becoming irritating.
Dancing seductively on a tabletop, wearing a jaunty fedora and red cummerbund, he generates a magnetism breaching cultural boundaries.
A decade later, the fabled hoofers at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom captured the nation's attention with the Lindy Hop and generated a craze for new dance styles.
The ferocity, subversion, and naked conviction of Bausch's dances generated a new lyricism, one that strayed far and wide from orthodox expectations of dance.
Fewer spots could have seemed less likely to generate an internationally successful dance troupe.
In 2014 alone technology-driven electronic dance music generated a combined US$268 million, up 11% from the previous year.
He calls these projects "landscapes of the future": a Smart Highway project that lit roads using solar power; a sustainable dance floor that generates electricity through dance; or Windlicht, which connected windmills to one another with lines of green energy-produced light.
Daggering, a sexually explicit dance style that has generated a firestorm of controversy in Jamaica in the past year, wasn't on display at all during Sean Paul's album-release concert at the Highline Ballroom on Tuesday night.
There is some evidence that Egyptian mortuary dances were intended to generate a vitalizing potency that would benefit the dead.
