Round Dancing

[suek]

I stumbled upon something I'd never seen before. It's called Round Dancing. There were four couples (and a couple of singles) in line of dance, doing a waltz to called music. They called it choreographed ballroom dance. The cues (like calls in a square dance) mean that everyone is doing the same steps at the same time. The dancers were in their 60s and 70s, I think, and it looked very sweet. All dressed in Xmas finery.

Anyone else ever hear of this?

[Sagitta]

Nope. Never heard of it!!!!

But:

one brief history of square and round dancing...http://www.dosado.com/articles/hist-sd.html

and

http://www.round-dance.de/

Google to find more. All very interesting...

[Spitfire]

Yeah, I've heard of it, but not familiar.

[jon]

I did Modern Western Square Dancing for a couple of years when I was just starting dancing; round dance is intimately associated with MWSD though also found at its own events. At the higher levels ("phases"), they've sucked in a bunch of International Style ballroom material.

Australian Sequence Dancing sounds similar in concept though without the cueing aspect, from what I've heard.

[KevinL]

My parents apparently did round and square dancing back before we kids were born. I don't have any real information, but my feeling is that round/ square/ contra dances are all very closely related.