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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.
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
It has mixed origins from English country dance, Scottish country dance, and French dance styles in the 17th century. Sometimes described as New England folk dance or Appalachian folk dance, contra dances can be found around the world, but are most common in the United States (periodically held in nearly every state), Canada, and other ...
The United Country Western Dance Council (UCWDC) is an organization that advocates for and organizes competitive country/western dancesport events. UCWDC regionally-sanctioned events are hosted in more than two dozen U.S. cities and also in the nations of Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, [1] [2] South Korea, Belgium, Malaysia, Ireland, Japan, China, South Africa, and Lithuania.