Social Dances of the Late Eighteenth Century – In England and the United States the late eighteenth century witnessed a beginning of a blend between the rigid group dances and the intense coupled dances like the Waltz.
The first documented authority of early ballroom dancing is Jehan Thoinot’Arbeau’s Orchesographie (1588) that discussed 16th-century French social dance. In 1650, Jean-Baptiste Lully introduced the Minuet to Paris—a dance that would dominate ballroom until the end of the 18th century.
Jazz dance was iconic to the beginning of the 20th century and beyond. Its evolution began on plantations by “Africans held captive in the United States”. Jazz dance was “practiced among blacks in social settings like house parties, dives, honky tonks, and jook joints”.
The social origin of ballroom dance lies in the European court dances of the 17th and 18th centuries, although many of the dance steps were adapted from folk traditions.
Is the Paso Doble Spanish?
The paso doble, or pasodoble, is a Latin ballroom dance. “Paso doble” may have originated in either France or Spain—the term “paso doble” means “double step” or “two-step” in Spanish—as the briskly paced paso doble music accompanied the fast steps of a military march in both countries.
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