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Thread #163160   Message #3889713
Posted By: Jack Campin
22-Nov-17 - 06:04 AM
Thread Name: Stepdancing - how much is Irish?
Subject: RE: Stepdancing - how much is Irish?
The point of Hungarian stomping dances is for the males to show off. So there isn't much synchronized activity - they take solos in sequence. You find a similar setup in dances from the Caucasus, though stepping isn't much in evidence there (look on YouTube for Chechen dances).

Has there ever been courtship-display dance of that type in the British Isles? A guy clogging on a board doesn't have quite the same pulling power.