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The hambo is a traditional dance that originated in Sweden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a couple dance in 3 4 time, danced to music played with a strong accent on the first beat and a tempo that varies from moderate to fast (100 to 120 beats per minute).
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The following is a list with the most notable dances. Names of many Greek dances may be found spelt either ending with -o or with -os. This is due to the fact that the word for "dance" in Greek is a masculine noun, while the dance itself can also be referred to by a neuter adjective used substantively. Thus one may find both "hasapiko" ("the ...
Schottische in Madrid August 2017. The schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia. [citation needed] It was popular in Victorian era ballrooms as a part of the Bohemian folk-dance craze and left its traces in folk music of countries such as Argentina (chotis Spanish Wikipedia and chamamé), Finland (), France, Italy, Norway ("reinlender [] "), Portugal and ...
A young Highland dancer demonstrates her Scottish sword dance at the 2005 Bellingham (Washington) Highland Games. Modern Highland dancing emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was "created from the Gaelic folk dance repertoire, but formalised with the conventions of ballet". [2]
In 1573, Scottish mercenaries are said to have performed a Scottish Sword dance before the Swedish King, John III, at a banquet held in Stockholm Castle. The dance, "a natural feature of the festivities," was used as part of a plot to assassinate the King (the Mornay Plot ), where the conspirators were able to bare their weapons without ...
The Slängpolska (Swedish plural slängpolskor; "släng" Swed. for "toss, throw, chuck" and directly cognate to the English "to sling") is a Swedish folk dance and sometimes also the description of certain folk music tunes. The dances bearing the name slängpolska can be divided into two major types. The first type is for two or four people ...
An anonymous manuscript dating to 1826 describes both Irish and Scottish seann triubhas (spelled Shauntreuse in the manuscript) steps, but tunes for these dances are not specified. [ 12 ] The seann triubhas is now danced at most Highland dance competitions around the world.