Square Dance Day
Square Dance Day is held on November 29. This event in the third decade of the month November is annual. Help us
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. In the early 1800s, English country dances merged with French dances to form the quadrille, a dance for four couples in a square. These dances further evolved in America, where they arrived with European settlers. After the American Revolution, the quadrille became especially popular.
Square dances were originally intended as social gatherings. Even before the Civil War, people of various social and economic positions were intermingling and sharing in their experience at square dances across the country. They serve the same social function today. Square dancing can remind us that when we work hand-in-hand, we can create a harmonious world or at least a harmonious basket (square dance humor – sorry!).
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