Square dance facts for kids
Bent Creek Ranch Square Dance Team dancing at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina.
Square dances are sequence dance for four couples in a square. Each couple faces the centre of the square.
Square dances were first written about in 16th-century England, and were also common in France and throughout Europe. They came to North America with the European settlers. Square dances are a type of folk dance.
Images for kids
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A square dance diagram from The English Dancing Master (Published circa 1650-1720)
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Quadrille variation involving five couples dancing at a Colonial Ball in the Albert Hall, Canberra September 2016 (sepia)
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Old-time fiddlers often accompany traditional square dances.
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American-style square dancers performing outdoors in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in 2014
See also
In Spanish: Square dance para niños
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