It's been said that the only way to get noticed is to do things the wrong way.  From Die Bühne, 1935.

"Tangoing by machinery."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.

From English Illustrated, 1896. 

From Truth Christmas Number, 1894.

From Blood Will Tell by Benjamin Rush Davenport, 1902.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1886.

"Believe it or not, boxing is dancing," said Frank Abderholden in 2007.  Here's proof, from Ulk, 1930.

"Mary Maillard jumping and skipping, after her thigh bone jumped into its socket."  From Legends and Miracles and Other Curious and Marvellous Stories of Human Nature by James Elimalet Smith, 1837.

From Die Bühne, 1927.

From Ulf the Minstrel by Robert B. Brough, 1859.

Everybody [on Mars] is doing this.  From Die Muskete, 1920.

"Satan is pleased to keep the young in a whirl of amusements and thus lead them to forget their souls' salvation."  From Satan, His Origin, Work, and Destiny by Carlyle B. Haynes, 1920.

"The elephant gave a skirt dance!"  From Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.

"The water tsar dances," from The Russian Story Book by Richard Wilson, 1916.

"The cabin also began to dance, the table danced."  From The Russian Story Book by Richard Wilson, 1916.

"Holding her torch aloft, she began to dance—as lightly as a wandering night breeze."  From The Camp Fire Girls at School by Hildegarde Gertrude Frey, 1916.