Let's dance ...

Just a little something we like to call the Florida east coast shimmy Photograph: Gjon Mili/guardian.co.uk

Cynthia Rhodes, Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing. Photograph: Everett Collection /guardian.co.uk

Breakdancers in Brooklyn, New York, 1984 Photograph: Michael Ochs/guardian.co.uk

Prince Charles gets the grey cells going while tango-ing with Adriana Vasile at some fancy dinner or other in Buenos Aires in 1999. Ay, caramba! Photograph: Peter Nichols/guardian.co.uk

John Sergeant gets all paleolithic for a 'dance' with Kristina Rihanoff on Strictly Come Dancing. Later when asked about the inspiration for the routine, Sargeant confessed that he'd misheard Rihanoff - she said let's do it Netherlands-style, Sargeant thought she said 'Neanderthal-style', and the rest is history ... Photograph: Guy Levy/guardian.co.uk

Peter Crouch doing his infamous robot celebration after scoring for England against Hungary at Old Trafford in 2006. Shortly after, the dance became very popular in night clubs. You may scoff - but as everyone knows, all women love being accosted by drunk men impersonating automatons. It's almost as effective as Lynx and shell-suit bottoms Photograph: Nigel Roddis/guardian.co.uk

Maori haka Photograph: Paul Chinn/guardian.co.uk

Akram Khan and Sylvie Guillem performing in Sacred at Sadler's Wells. Often dancing can be a thing of exquisite beauty ... Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Be warned, dancing is always just a bit of innocent fun – sometimes it can be used for terrible, terrible evil Photograph: Richard Young/guardian.co.uk

Lord of the dance John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Remember, before that dance scene with Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction gave him back his credibility, there was a very real chance Travolta would mostly only be remembered for this eye-ball baiting travesty. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/guardian.co.uk

Pulp Fiction with Uma Thurman and John Travolta Photograph: Miramax/guardian.co.uk