Country dance
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A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in England in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully de
Comical 18th-century country dance; engraving by Hogarth
Village country dance; engraving by Abraham Bosse, 1633
Lorin's contradanse choreography, one of the earliest western dance notations
The "La Trénis" figure of the Contredanse, an illustration from Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1805
Square dance
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A square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances are part of a broad spectrum o
Country dance
…English folk dance clubs generally embrace all types of country dance, American English country dance groups tend to exclude modern contra dances and square dances. Country dancing is intended for general participation, unlike folk dances such as clogging, which are primarily concert dances, and ballroom dances…
Appalachian square dancing at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina
A square dance in Montreal, Quebec in 1941
Quadrille variation involving five couples dancing at a Colonial Ball in the Albert Hall, Canberra September 2016 (sepia)
American-style square dancers performing outdoors in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in 2014