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The Bent Creek Ranch Square Dance Team dancing at the Mountain Music Festival in Asheville, North Carolina. 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 ...
The square functions as a "dance team" for the duration of a square dance tip, a group of dances usually separated from the next tip by a pause during which the dancers regroup into new squares. A square dance tip is usually composed of a combination of patter calls and singing calls, the two types of square dance calls.
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 ...
Square dancers move to the music of the Ghost Riders at the 73rd National Square Dancing Convention on June 27 at the Baird Center in Milwaukee. The event runs through Sunday, and was expected to ...
2013 video of square dancing in Shenzhen. In the People's Republic of China, square dancing or plaza dancing (simplified Chinese: 广场舞; traditional Chinese: 廣場舞; pinyin: guǎngchǎng wǔ; lit. 'public square dance'), is an exercise routine performed to music in squares, plazas or parks of the nation's cities.
The most famous hoedown in classical music is the section entitled "Hoe-Down" from the Rodeo ballet by Aaron Copland (1942). The most frequently heard version is from the Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo, which Copland extracted from the ballet shortly after its premiere; the dance episodes were first performed in 1943 by the Boston Pops conducted by Arthur Fiedler.
In the mid-1920s, Wade, as a square dance caller, became a prominent figure in the Canadian music [2] scene and performed for dances in Ontario and Quebec. In 1928, the band started broadcasting on CFRB, Toronto, [3] and in 1933 they became the first of their kind to perform on the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC).
Ford had a solution: square dancing. He saw jazz and its related dancing styles as a force for moral decay, and sought to cure it by bringing back traditional folk dances. In doing so, Ford ...