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Square Dance Foundation of New England Archived 2016-08-22 at the Wayback Machine has an extensive collection of books, records, photographs and other materials relating to the history of both traditional and modern square dancing. On the site are interviews with many callers and recordings of dances from the early 1960s.
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.
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 ...
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As time progressed, these dances returned to England and were spread and reinterpreted in the United States, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, where they were alternatively called "country dances" or in some parts of New England such as New Hampshire, "contradances". [6] [7]
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 ]
The quadrille also gave rise to Cape Breton Square Dancing via American square dancing in New England. [1] The Lancers , a variant of the quadrille, became popular in the late 19th century and was still danced in the 20th century in folk-dance clubs.
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.