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	Country dancing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although we know of many examples of ceremonial dances, seasonal dances and occupational dances, there is no definite example of country dancing before the 15th century.
		Social dancing obviously continued after 1918 but it evolved into ballroom dancing at the formal end of the social scale, or solo performance at the informal end.
		Some country dances are confined to their place of origin: Strathspeys in Scotland, Mazurkas in Hungary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Country_dance (705 words)

	Western Dance history. Origins of country dance
		He was not of a temperament to master intricate dance steps or to gracefully lead a fair maiden across the floor to the strains of a fiddler's reel.
		Having "the intimacy of the Waltz and the vivacity of the Irish jig", the Polka was embraced with enthusiasm.
		The style of dance changed dramatically in the early 1960's where partners were couples only in name and where each allowed his body to dance directly to the sounds, lights and strobes.
	www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry/western.htm (1389 words)

	HOW TO DANCE A COUNTRY DANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dance technique throughout the period changed frequently as new fashions and fads swept across the land.
		The dances most frequently performed in 18th-century America were the country dance, the cotillion, the minuet and the reel.
		Dance back to place (4 beats), go outside the set, each on his or her own side, turn down and go behind the 2nd couple and into their place.
	www.colonialmusic.org /Resource/howtoCD.htm (887 words)

	Berea College - PEH - Dance Programs
		In the 1930s, folk dance became very popular at Berea, and weekly dances were one of the main entertainments for students.
		Dance is still an important part of the life of Berea, for many reasons.
		Because dance is required in elementary and secondary education, a certified teacher with a Minor in Dance may be more attractive as a candidate for a position in a school system.
	www.berea.edu /peh/dance (285 words)

	English and American Dance Described
		The historical dances in particular are rather courtly and require attention to one's posture ("lifting the egg out of the eggcup" is a graphic metaphor for this), and way of moving.
		These dances may be distinguished by frequent use of a "skip change" step, the "allemande," and formations like the three-couple longways set and the cotillion, an historical form of square dance.
		Some dances are done "improper," which means that the first couple (in some dances it may be the other couples, too) have crossed over and begin the dance each time from their partner's usual position.
	www.cdss.org /whatisit.html (1260 words)

	Club Country Dancing - Home
		Club Country meets every Friday at the Riverside Community Center on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River, except for Christmas and New Years (or a hurricane!).
		Dances were held at the Hall of 50 States in downtown Ft. Myers.
		The dances were held there until January 2002 when FCWDA moved out to Riverside Community Center.
	www.clubcountrydance.com (243 words)

	Berea College - PEH - Dance - Christmas Country Dance School
		Country dancing and other folk arts such as folk drama, storytelling, singing, and crafts are wonderful activities for teachers, youth leaders, recreation personnel and everyone else!
		Christmas Country Dance School, devoted to the practice and enjoyment of authentic folk material, helps everyone find usable materials for recreation programs, teaching situations, or personal benefit.
		Christmas School is a dance leadership course for adults and a limited number of select teenagers.
	www.berea.edu /peh/dance/ccds (197 words)

	Hamilton Country Dancers: A Contra Dance Primer
		Contra Dancing is a form of American folk dance in which the dancers form a set of two parallel lines which run the length of the hall.
		A square dance set comprises only four couples whereas the number of couples in a Contra Dance set is limited only by the length of the hall.
		Contra Dances have a relaxed, family-like atmosphere where the emphasis is on dancing, a welcome relief to noisy and smoky dance halls.
	www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca /link/jig/a_contra_dancers_primer.htm (514 words)

	Country Dance, Line Dancing Instructional Videos. Learn country dancing
		Wiley Hicks, a 3-time national country dance champion with a Masters Degree in Performing Arts and 25 years as a professional instructor/choreographer, shows you the real moves and the style and grace necessary for great country partner dancing.
		Christy Lane, the most traveled country dance teacher in the U.S., now comes into your home with warmth, enthusiasm and humor as she skillfully teaches you the most popular versions of Hip Hop, Black Velvet, Tumbleweed and Cowboy Hip Hop.
		These dances are rapidly becoming one of the most popular styles of club or party country dancing.
	securesearch.org /country_dance/index.html (2239 words)

	English Country Dance diagrams for Beginners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		How to identify dancers is a problem, just as it is for callers, when they are not dancing from their normal positions.
		The unique or dances were identified and collected into a database where each dance printing history and other information is summarized and a facsimile of the dance and its music is included.
		An index of country dances and where they are published.
	www.dcdancenet.com /toyprograms (673 words)

	Central Illinois English Country Dancers Homepage
		English Country Dance is the dance form that was popular in England and America in the 1600's, 1700's and early 1800's.
		It is one of the dance forms from which modern contra and square dance are descended.
		They do contras and squares which are the dance forms that English country dance evolved into here in America in the late 1700's and early 1800's.
	www.prairienet.org /ciecd (649 words)

	The Country Grapevine - Where Florida Turns For Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Don't start a different dance of your own, unless there is plenty of room on and you sense it is acceptable.
		If you are dancing in lines, try to leave the outside lane clear for the couple dancers.
		If the dance floor is empty and you are starting off the dance, go to the front so that others can fall in line behind you.
	www.countrygrapevine.com /dance/line/etiquette.asp (400 words)

	Dance Articles and Resources
		Dance Etiquette - many styles of dancing can be accommodated on the floor.
		Ballroom dance Tempi - Dance tempi in measures per minute as recommended by the National Dance Council of America, Inc.
		Dance Tempo - Dance tempi in measures per minute as recommended by the National Dance Council of America.
	www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry (492 words)

	Country Dance Links
		Gene is a man of many faces-English country dancer and dance leader, teacher of dance workshops throughout the US, musician, former president of the American Recorder Society, co-MC at our Playford Ball in 1999 and 2002.
		He leads the English country dance band, Hudson Crossing, is a member of the English country dance band, Garden Variety, and is the fiddler for the Chelsea English Country Dancers.
		Country Dance * New York, Inc. is a center of the Country Dance and Song Society.
	www.cdny.org /links.html (3021 words)

	CDS Boston Centre -- Home Page
		Since 1915, the Country Dance Society, Boston Centre has been working to preserve and promote the knowledge and practice of the traditional and contemporary dancing and dance music of England and New England.
		This book may be purchased at CDS BC events or from the Country Dance and Song Society.
		All of the dances from the original edition are reprinted, and several new dances have been added as well; a list of dances is available.
	www.cds-boston.org (671 words)

	Country Dance Animation
		Dance authors who want to write their own dances and those who want to contribute to the database of dances by writing XML descriptions for existing dances.
		The Flowers of Edinburgh (a Scottish country dance).
		The animations as shown here are more of a test tool than a teaching aid, allowing us to test XML descriptions and to demonstrate that the XML defines precisely where people should be at any point of time, the direction in which they are facing, and when hands are taken.
	countrydance.sourceforge.net (835 words)

	The Dance Niche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Country Dance New York: ECD in NYC (Contra too).
		Their latest project, undertaken in cooperation with Boston Center, is a set of CDs being produced expressly for dancing, a valuable source for those who do not have the luxury of local musicians versed in ECD music.
		Country Dance and Song Society: a society of societies and individuals.
	www.just.net /~roger/dance_niche.html (1255 words)

	How to write a dance
		DANCE TITLE: We try to discourage issuing dance descriptions with an AKA (or also known as) name included with the title of the dance.
		What seems like a simple thing, when multiplied by the sheer number of dances we receive becomes too much to handle and for this reason Don and Patti Brown and Gloria Johnson and I are sharing editing chores and swapping finished dances from one site to another.
		At Country Time, a dance that arrives in near perfect condition for posting takes between 5 and 10 minutes to prepare in text file format, and another 10 to 15 minutes to build the.html page, add the dance to the New Dances page and link it, and add the dance to it's alpha menu page.
	www.country-time.com /archives/arch/_write_a_dance.php (1412 words)

	Scottish country dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Related dance forms include English country dancing, contra dancing, ceilidh dancing, "Old Time" dancing, Irish set dancing, or square dance.
		Anybody can come up with a new dance, but many dances are of local importance only; the RSCDS does publish collections of new dances every so often but does not try to control the invention of new material.
		Emmerson, George S. Scotland Through Her Country Dances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_country_dance (1855 words)

	Country Dancing in Kalamazoo
		Country Dancing in Kalamazoo sponsors great American and English traditional dancing to live music.
		For dancers who dance with ease in time to the music, know all the basic figures (including heys, contra corners, grand square, etc.) and formations, and easily position and orient themselves moving from one figure to the next.
		Dances encountered at camps, seen in publications, or even written by a participant--including contras, English, squares, Kentucky small sets, or.
	www.albion.edu /math/ram/cdk (664 words)

	Lambertville Country Dancers Contra and English Country Dance Home Page
		Tonight's special dance party will be an Advanced English Country Dance, led by Judi Rivkin, with music from Roberta Truscello, Paul Prestopino, Judy Kleppel and Susie Lorand, at St.
		Special 1st Friday English Country Dance, led by Scott Higgs, with music by Bare Necessities (Peter Barnes, Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea and Jacqueline Schwab), at Bethany Presbyterian Church, Trenton, NJ.
		At the August 5th English country dance and the August 12 contra dance, LCD will be holding elections for board members and voting on by-law revisions.
	www.lambertvillecountrydancers.org (810 words)

	UCWDC - United Country Western Dance Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Judy McDonald and I are the line dance coordinators this year for Worlds and I am pleased to be working with Judy on this.
		She really cares about line dance and actually became an event director in the UCWDC just to help the line dance cause.
		Worlds XV® will again be the only true World Championship of Country Dance® because competitors from the four corners of the entire Earth will be competing for the coveted titles of 2007 Country Western Dance World Champion® in the categories of Couples, Line, ProAm and Teams.
	www.ucwdc.org (963 words)

	dance, dancing, dance world, line dancing, couples dancing, step sheets, country line dances, 2 step, two step
		country music beat is different than that of a waltz dance to big-band
		Also Country dancing is done with a partner.
		As for the "new" country dancing, or country line dancing.
	www.countrycalendar.com /dance_world/article/Faith/What_is_Country.htm (808 words)

	Santa Barbara Country Dance Society
		We offer a contra dance on most Sundays, and an English Country dance in Santa Barbara on most Wednesdays and in Ventura on the second Monday of each month.
		A typical Sunday evening event includes mostly contra dances (what's that?), maybe a circle mixer, some square dances or Anglo-American barn dances, two waltzes and another couple dance.
		The SBCDS is a member of the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS).
	www.sbcds.org (252 words)

	BACDS -- The Bay Area Country Dance Society Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Bay Area Country Dance Society promotes, preserves, and teaches traditional English and American music and dance in the San Francisco Bay area.
		The Bay Area Country Dance Society has been promoting, preserving, and teaching traditional English and American music and dance since the early 1980s.
		Dance series featuring lively community dances and wonderful live music.
	www.bacds.org (503 words)

	American Country Dance Association
		The Country results are posted on the Results Page.
		Congratulations to all those that competed throughout the year and improved their dancing with consistent practice.
		Most of the 2007 ACDA event dates have been finalized and are posted on the Events Page.
	www.americancountrydanceassociation.com (61 words)

	Country Dance and Song Society
		The Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) is an association of people and groups with a common interest in English and Anglo-American folk dance, music and song.
		Generally social and participatory, the dances include traditional dances (contras, New England and Appalachian squares, traditional English community dances, English and American step and clog dances); historical dances (English country dances from the 17th to 20th centuries and Early American country dances from the Revolutionary era); and seasonal display dances (morris, rapper, longsword and garland).
		Our musical interests include folk music, ballads and songs; traditional and historical dance music; regional styles of vocal and instrumental music; and early music for period instruments and voice.
	www.cdss.org (517 words)

	San Francisco North Bay Area contra and English country dance calendar, articles, music
		Contra dancing and English Country Dancing are easy, fun, friendly and inclusive.
		All dances are taught and prompted, with live musicians.
		First-timers are encouraged to come early for an orientation, and for simpler dances early in the evening.
	www.nbcds.org (305 words)

	Country Dance * New York, Inc.
		Check out our listing of summer dance opportunities.
		Better information can be obtained from our website or by subscribing to our email newsletter.
		Country Dance * New York, Inc., is an affiliate of the Country Dance and Song Society.
	www.cdny.org (135 words)

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