Quadrille

[cornbruiser]

Get down, white people!!

[KidddVideo]

The Quadrille is a lot older than the late 19th cent.

[gryphon0393]

@hathers12,

The clothes are from the 1890's.

You can tell from the large sleeves and the wide bottoms of the skirts. It must be nearer the end of the decade since the bustles while present, are far less noticeable than on earlier dresses.

[torontoguy1097]

@gryphon0393 sorry it is a mess of costumes ranging from the 1840's to 1870's. you are wrong and please don't present yourself as an authority, it is boring as hell.

[smartypantsnyc]

LOL It's so very civilized that they're barely even "dancing."

[UserName999999999999]

Where is this? It looks like some illuminati shit.

[sisterbaldini]

Nothing like a good square dance. This is an early beginning.

[francisfeybli]

dear sir dear madam

please can you tell me, where I can find this music.

would you be so kind and send it to my emailaddress

feybli (at) bluewin (dot) ch

thanks a lot, francis

[animangaai]

It is a magnificent dance.

I'm doing a research of good dances.

Splendid :)

[JLeeGraham]

@animangaai I'm doing research too, and this has been one of the most helpful videos I've found to help me understand the character of the quadrille. I'm trying to compose one as part of a set of 18th and 19th Century dances I'm writing. The form is complex, with any number of variations, as usual (this is slight variation on the traditional form, in fact), but still it's great to see the dance executed so professionally and artfully. Thanks to Pablossos for posting it!

[francisfeybli]

@animangaai

dear animangaai

I am a traditional dancetutor, as you are collecting good dances, do you also have traditional dances from your country?

would love to get your answer on info (at) vaw-online (dot) ch

thanks a lot francis

[xPolina]

it's fascinating - they change their partner the whole time but u always can see clearly to who they belong... kinda cute ^^

[guitarslim56]

@xPolina I can't tell who goes who whom. I got lost after two seconds. It's like trying to follow the bean in a shell game.

[aeschine1963]

sigh...I so want to attend a Civil War ball and dance this! Of course this may not be 1860s variant. This looks more elegant than the Lancer's Quadrille.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

This looks like a very old precursor to square dancing.

[timrprobocom]

@SpeedyNeutrino43 That's exactly right. American square dancing derived rather directly from the quadrille. Practically the entire dance shown here could be called by a modern square dance caller.

[rosebaronet]

they actually did a 30,000 people grandball in new york in 1872...lol

[MysticGecko]

Seems like this could be fun if you had thousands and thousands of people. XD

[edgerrrate]

lmfaooooo.. 1 : 05

[abdekhoda]

interesting, but a little boring sort of a dance...

[sweetbutdaring]

soooooooooooooo funny rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl its just walking around!!!!!!

[Oemschi]

Where can I get the music, please?

[TheListerbo]

did you find out what the music is?

[skyskyysky]

I found out it is the Queen of Harvest Quadrille by John Philip Sousa

[JLeeGraham]

@skyskyysky Oh, thank you for finding that out! I somehow never realised that Sousa wrote dance music. I'll have to dig around and find some more. Thanks again!

[hathers12]

can somebody tell me from which year this clothes are ? please

[pvv842]

As far as I remember, this clothes is not frrom 19 cent, it's look's from the first decade of 20 cent fashion.

[funstuff2006]

"as far as you remember"? Whoa! You've been around since the mid 19th century?!

If those are in fact Tuxedos, then they have been around since before the turn of the 20th century.

[LeannanStair]

Referring to the ladies' dresses. The quadrille has been around since before even that.

[LeannanStair]

It's probably based on 1890s- the larger sleeves. Early 20th would have had a more fluid form and sometimes even sleeveless. Mind you, this isn't entirely accurate anyways.

[d91lek]

I love the violet couple galloping through from nowhere at 3:00 and also the gentleman joining late at 2:13.

[iamguy991]

Does anyone know the name and/or composer of this dance peace??

[pvv842]

Thank's for upload. Simple and lovely dance!

[sweetbutdaring]

its hilarious. There's no dancing in it! :P

[Phantomoftheopera17]

beautiful i am in love with past era's and the dancing is just lovely

[Meyerbeer1]

I like it! who has composed the music?

[POLMAZURKA]

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POLONAISE: STORY OF A DANCE

MAZUR-MAZURKA: THE BRILLIANT GLORIOUS DANCE

[POLMAZURKA]

nicely  and well reherased----so difficult for men to be masculine and not "shissee"at the same time.

[alexey456]

Очень весело.

[celanba]

that's mean!

[mizpopo]

Do you even know what that means? I don't think you do. Let me translate.

"Very fun."

Yes, very mean.