The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #76406   Message #1354586
Posted By: GUEST,JTT
12-Dec-04 - 06:27 AM
Thread Name: Tradition or just a bit old?
Subject: RE: Tradition or just a bit old?
Nothing is just a bit old. For instance, most of the "traditional" set and square dances all across Europe and America seem to have come from the 18th-century court dances - the gavottes and quadrilles.

But presumably these themselves were a fancying-up of plainer earlier dances, and how far these themselves went back is another question!