Cotillion
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The cotillion is a social dance, popular in 18th-century Europe and North America. Originally for four couples in square formation, it was a courtly version of an English country dance, the forerunner of the quadrille and, in the United States, the square dance.
The Cotillion Dance by James Caldwall (1771)
Cotillion figures demonstrated in the Festsaal, Hofburg, Vienna, in 2008
A mid-17th century painting by Jacob Duck, called The Cotillion, is the earliest possible reference to a dance with this name.
William Colford Schermerhorn
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William Colford Schermerhorn was an American lawyer, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.
The 1888 Schermerhorn Building.