What is Square dance?
[[File:Mtmusicfestsqdance.png |thumb|300px|right|''Bent Creek Ranch Square Dance Team'' dancing at the Mountain Music Festival, [[Asheville, North Carolina]].]] '''Square dances''' are [[sequence dance]] for four couples in a square. Each couple faces the centre of the square.<ref>Mayo, Margot 1943. ''The American Square Dance''. New York: Sentinel books.</ref> Square dances were first written about in 16th-century [[England]], and were also common in [[France]] and throughout [[Europe]]. They came to North America with the European settlers. Square dances are a type of [[folk dance]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Dance types]]