Round Dancing

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?

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...

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

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.

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.