Canary dance

Canary Dance (known as Canario in Italian Sources, Canary Islands in French) was a popular Renaissance dance throughout Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It is mentioned in the textbooks of France and Italy, and is mentioned in sources by Spain and England, including in plays by William Shakespeare.
The dance, which is most often choreographed for a couple of monkeys, has been characterized as "a fiery wooing dance" with "Spanish" or "Spanish origins". It was also called frog legs, because it was an energetic dance that included jumps, tramps and violent movements, accompanied by music with syncopated rhythms.
Although there are choreographies for the canario as an autonomous dance among the dancers of Fabritio Caroso, Cesare Negri and Thoinot Arbeau, it appears most often as a section of a larger dance or dance suite.