Square dance

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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.

Square Dance Media

• A square dance diagram from The English Dancing Master (First published in 1651)

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  Modern Appalachian square dancing

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  A square dance in Montreal, Quebec in 1941

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  Quadrille variation involving five couples dancing at a Colonial Ball in the Albert Hall, Canberra September 2016 (sepia)

• Square dance at the Concord Scout House, April 2022.webm

  Traditional square dance calls at a dance in Concord, Massachusetts

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  Old-time fiddlers often accompany traditional square dances.

• American-style square dancers performing outdoors in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in 2014

• Square dance in Gjoa Haven, northern Canada