Historical dances
Once in fashion, now danced by revivalists: minuet, pavane, galliard, quadrille.
🇫🇷 France and 4 moreQuadrille
A social dance for four couples in a square, with set figures and changing musicSocial dance · Set or square · Group
🇫🇷 France and 4 moreGalop
A fast-paced ballroom dance in 2/4 time, often closing the nightBallroom or Latin dance · Couple
🇫🇷 France and 2 moreBaroque dance
Court and social dances from Europe’s Baroque era, 1600–1750Historical dance · Solo · Couple
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Galop: Johann Christian Schoeller / Andreas Geiger the Elder, Public domain, source
- Baroque dance: John Hewat of Canberra, Australia, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Quadrille: Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source