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CDSS promotes a number of types of participatory dance, including contra dance, [14] English country dance, square dance, [15] morris dance, rapper sword, and clogging. [ 16 ] CDSS runs several week-long summer camps at Pinewoods Dance Camp (MA), [ 17 ] Camp Cavell (MI), Agassiz Village (ME), and Camp Louise (MD). [ 18 ]
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 of dances known by various names: country dances, traditional dances, folk dances, barn dances, ceilidh dances, contra dances, Playford dances, etc.
The festival has been influential in sustaining and reviving numerous folk dance traditions in New England. As a social dance festival, it is a community experience, the largest in New England of its kind, [1] with about 5,000 combined admissions in the festival's four session periods. It is the inspiration for other similar traditional dance ...
A traditional square dance in Concord, Massachusetts. Traditional square dance is a generic American term for any style of American square dance other than modern Western.The term can mean (1) any of the American regional styles (broadly, Northeastern, Southeastern, and Western) that existed before around 1950, when modern Western style began to develop out of a blend of those regional styles ...
National Square Dance Convention attendance up from last year A little after 8:30 p.m. Thursday, an emcee introduced "the most celebrated professional square dance caller in the world." Oxendine ...
Many states of the United States have adopted official dances as one of their state symbols.The practice has extended to U.S. territories and Washington, D.C. [1]. Starting in the 1970s, many states adopted square dance as their state dance, the result of a campaign by square dancers to make it the national dance.
The English country dance and the French contredanse, arriving independently in the American colonies, became the New England contra dance, which experienced a resurgence in the mid-20th century. The quadrille evolved into square dance in the United States while in Ireland it contributed to the development of modern Irish set dance.
In much of rural northern New England, particularly Maine, Acadian and Québécois culture are included in music and dance. Contra dancing and country square dancing are popular throughout New England, usually backed by live Irish, Acadian, or other folk music.