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Western couple dancing is a form of social dance.Many different dances are done to country-western music. These dances include: Two Step, Waltz, Cowboy or Traveling Cha Cha, [2] Polka Ten Step [3] (also known as Ten Step Polka [4]), Schottische, and other Western promenade dances, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and Nightclub Two Step.
It is a slotted dance and is done to a wide variety of music including: blues, rock and roll, country western, pop, hip hop, smooth, cool jazz, R& B, and funk music. [20] [21] Western Swing has long been the name for jazz-influenced western music of the 1940s and, by extension, two-step, line dancing or swing dance done to such music.
The country/western two-step, often called the Texas two-step [2] or simply the two-step, [3] is a country/western dance usually danced to country music in common time. "Traditional [Texas] two-step developed, my theory goes, because it is suited to fiddle and guitar music played two-four time with a firm beat [found in country music].
When Disco fell out of favor, West Coast Swing was one of the dances done in country western bars in Los Angeles. [31] and an instructional booklet for the dance was advertised with a heading of "Cowboy Dancing!". [32] By the 1990s country western dancers were dancing West Coast Swing to contemporary country western songs. [33]
Plenty of songs get people dancing on social media, but one of Beyoncé’s new tracks has people tapping their boots in real-life honky-tonks and country-western bars.
Comical 18th-century country dance; engraving by Hogarth. 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 designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets.
Between 1940 and 1960, modern western square dance evolved from the western style of traditional square dance that had formed in the United States. Traditional western square dancing was promoted beginning in the 1930s by Lloyd Shaw , who solicited definitions from callers across the country in order to preserve that dance form and make it ...
Line dancing is practiced and learned in country-western dance bars, social clubs, dance clubs and ballrooms. It is sometimes combined on dance programs with other forms of country-western dance, such as two-step , western promenade dances , and as well as western-style variants of the waltz , polka and swing .