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A square dance is a dance for four couples (eight dancers in total) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances were first documented in 16th-century England but were also quite common in France and throughout Europe. They came to North America with the European settlers and have undergone considerable development there. In some countries and regions, through preservation and repetition, square dances have attained the status of a folk dance

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Scottish country dances are made up of figures of varying length to suit the phrasing of Scottish country dance tunes. For the most part figures are 2, 4, or 8 bars of music long. There are various kinds of figures ranging from the very simple (. a couple changing places across the set giving right hands) to fairly intricate convolutions involving three or four couples at the same time (. three-couple rights and lefts). Most Scottish country dances are "progressive", . after one repetition of the figure sequence the couples end up in a different place in the set. This serves to let every couple have a go as "top couple" (normally the active couple), and the number of repetitions is adjusted accordingly.

A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in the British Isles. It is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets

5000+ Dance cribs for Scottish Country Dancing. While all descriptions of Scottish Country Dances are intended to tell the reader how the dance is to be performed, various different forms exist, depending upon their intended use. At the most detailed and formal level, the description must define every detail of the dance unambiguously so that a teacher unfamiliar with the dance has enough information to teach dancing lessons to a class; the term, Dance Instructions, is usually reserved for this.

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Square dance is one of the most popular traditional dances of England, which managed to achieve great popularity in not only continental Europe but also in North America. Here you can read all about the interesting history of square dance and its numerous variations that are danced all around the world. Playford (England) is the traditional square dance that was taught by famous music theory publisher John Playford. Eight out of 105 dances from his 1651 book The English Dancing Master are square dances. Cèilidh (Scotland, Ireland, and England) folk square dance that is more lively and includes more stepping than other English square dances. Scottish country dance.

Modern Western square dance is organized by square dance clubs. Clubs offer classes, social and dance evenings, as well as arrange for larger dances which are usually open to the general square dancing public (. Larger dances sometimes request a strict western-style dress code, which originated in the late '50s and early '60s and is known as "traditional square dance attire", although it was not traditional before that time.

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