House is a style of street dance danced to house music. It is improvisational and emphasizes fast and complex footwork combined with fluid movements in the torso.
House dance itself is a lot older than house music, which arose in the 1980's. House dance takes from many different dance elements such as the Lindy era, African, Latin, Brazillian, jazz, tap, and even modern.

House is primarily 3 styles: Footwork, Jacking, and Lofting. It includes a variety of techniques and sub-styles including skating, stomping, and shuffling. It also incorporates movements from many other sources such as voguing, Capoeira, tap, and Latin dances such as salsa. Other moves that are found in a wide variety of dance styles and are also important elements in house include slides, spins and toe taps.

The foundation movement in house dancing is a technique that came from Chicago that involves moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion, as if a wave were passing through it. When this movement is repeated and sped up to match the beat of a song it is called jacking, or "the jack." All footwork in house dancing is said to initiate from the way the jack moves the center of gravity through space.
In house dancing there is an emphasis on the subtle rhythms and riffs of the music, and the footwork follows them closely.