A skirt dance is a form of dance popular in Europe and America, particularly in burlesque and vaudeville theater of the 1890s, in which women dancers would manipulate long, layered skirts with their arms to create a motion of flowing fabric, often in a darkened theater with colored light projectors highlighting the patterns of their skirts.

Skirt Dance.
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The skirt dance : a dance fad of the 1890s /
The Skirt Dance : Pas De Quatre
Miniskirt for Dancing Spinner
The Lioness Skirt Dance And The Inconsiderate Python
Interruptions by Inevitable Petticoats: Skirt Dancing and the Historiographical Problem of Late Nineteenth-Century Dance
Rolf 'asked girl to dance then pushed his hand up her skirt'
Young women preform a dance outdoors dressed in colorful skirts and blackface.
When Female Students Refuse to 'Lift Their Skirts' for Permission to Dance