A topic within Dance, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
2 works
John Playford
Collects the tunes and figures of English country dances as danced socially, treating the dance itself as living on the floor among ordinary dancers rather than on a stage.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Petri Hoppu, Egil Bakka & Anne Margrete Fiskvik
Traces the minuet's path from Nordic royal courts into peasant folk practice and its twentieth-century revival, arguing the dance's social meaning shifted with each class that adopted it rather than the steps themselves ever changing much.
586 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026