So many complicated steps. But I'd love to learn. I'm a big historical romance reader and read about balls from this time period. Dances like this one were the height of fashion then. If you couldn't do it you were not deemed suitable for marriage. But that's just in the books. I'm not sure if it's exactly true.
I think being able to dance was considered an accomplishment, and ladies of higher classes were expected to have mastery over dancing. Of course, every class had their own forms of dance.
You can start by contacting Dancetime Publications and looking at their instructional dance books and DVDs plus music CDs for many dance eras including 19th century 1 couple and. groups of couples. One also needs to find historical dance groups to join Good luck groups of coupljes
Watching again after a long interval . . . The music has the sound of John Philip Sousa, many of whose marches can be danced to. The brass band is another possible indicator of the March King's work. Irrespective of who composed it, this quadrille is fun to watch - and to listen to. Well done.
@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!
I wish we can have like these event. Like its 2am and searching about the old times looks so beautiful and elegant, but like I want the old old time where they had bobby dress uwu (idk what they’re called) because i searched from ‘once upon a December’ to the deep meaning then to russian elegance and old times I’ll just say its beautiful of that cover i saw on a video which is a piano ver of once upon a December.
@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.
but would be done hoo down style...ugh...DLA EUROPEJSKICH / POLSKICH SPOŁECZNYCH TEMATÓW TELEWIZYJNYCH: POLONAISE I MAZURKA ESSAYS, FILMY I INSTRUKCJE: PRZEJDŹ DO INTERNETU I SZUKAJ: ACADEMIA.EDU ......... ..RAYMOND CWIEKA WYŚWIETLANIE FILMÓW WKLEJ FILM - SŁOWA - ESSAY DO DOKUMENTU WORD I NASTĘPNIE KLIKNIJ i NACIŚNIJ KLUCZ CTRL NA WIDEO. ORYGINALNIE BYŁO NIEKTÓRE 49 KSIĄŻEK.
@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.
Square dancing is pretty old itself! Take a look at Playford's English Dancing Master - first edition 1651 - specifically the 8-person squares like Dull Sir John, If All The World Were Paper, Fain I Would, Hyde Park, and so on. I don't know if they quite count as square dancing - they might, or might be ancestors, depending on how you define the term - but they're pretty close. It's quite possible they're even ancestral to the quadrille! (Or at least, watching this video I'm recognizing a lot of figures - the casting figure from Fain I Would, for example.)
@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!
Funny how people think the Quadrille is "rare." They did this dance on the Beverly Hillbillies all the time! And for those who don't know, violins are also called fiddles...
and once again it is impossible for people to have a decent conversation on TH-cam without troll-like insults. And what is the subject? the controversial quadrille
I'm sorry, but I strongly disagree with you. And actually, I agree with gryphon. The dress style lends itself to being 1890's, because of the leg 'o' mutton sleeves and the more A-line skirts. If you like, you could look up some 1890s fashion plates in the image search, I think you'll see quite a similarity. However, I *don't* think that's the point of the video. I believe the video was made to display the dancing style, and not the clothing.
Woah. So my age automatically means I'm wrong? Well, even if I am, I can still think what I like, can't I? And didn't I already say that the video was about the DANCING?
"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.
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.
Do you know why there are so many wars today? Answer; Not enough dancing, that's why. Less war and more dance I say. Serious though, this looks like it would be so fun to do, but my gown would have to be way prettier than those monstrosities in the video.
country dance is quite another thing. The matrix is surely the same all over Europe, but each country has then developed a different style based on their own traditions and pleasure. Ex. Scottish country dances, set dancing in Ireland, but they all originate from the "Contraddanze" therefore translitterated into Country dances... the countryside has really nothing to do with them at all...
There were also quadrille that were composed to use as travelling step for all couples to go around the square waltz, mazurka, polka, schottische, gallop etc sometimes only 1 step for whole dance while others were composed to use all of those different steps in 1 song. Doable challenging and intetesting
I've read that at true "country dances" of the period, in the true country, someone was calling these things, as in a square dance. I mean, come on! How would you know what step to do next?
Who cares. All the people in the video probably made their own costumes and are pretty much the only people in the world who know the quadrille. They probably filmed this at an annual ball for people who wish they were born in the Victorian Times.
@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.
![[FULL DANCE] Bal de l'X Quadrille des Lanciers @ Opera Garnier Paris, France on October 8, 2021 👍](/img/n.gif)
2:11 Aw crap! Missed my cue! lol!
I love the violet couple galloping through from nowhere at 3:00 and also the gentleman joining late at 2:13.
imagine going back in time and showing people a video of a modern day dance club
So many moves and steps! Fun to watch - though I pity the woman who ever would consent to dance anything like this with me.
So many complicated steps. But I'd love to learn. I'm a big historical romance reader and read about balls from this time period. Dances like this one were the height of fashion then. If you couldn't do it you were not deemed suitable for marriage. But that's just in the books. I'm not sure if it's exactly true.
I think being able to dance was considered an accomplishment, and ladies of higher classes were expected to have mastery over dancing. Of course, every class had their own forms of dance.
You can start by contacting Dancetime Publications and looking at their instructional dance books and DVDs plus music CDs for many dance eras including 19th century 1 couple and. groups of couples. One also needs to find historical dance groups to join
Good luck
groups of coupljes
Watching again after a long interval . . . The music has the sound of John Philip Sousa, many of whose marches can be danced to. The brass band is another possible indicator of the March King's work. Irrespective of who composed it, this quadrille is fun to watch - and to listen to. Well done.
@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!
tradin' off dem ho's... and that, my friends is what gave rise to what's now known as the players' ball...
I wish we can have like these event. Like its 2am and searching about the old times looks so beautiful and elegant, but like I want the old old time where they had bobby dress uwu (idk what they’re called) because i searched from ‘once upon a December’ to the deep meaning then to russian elegance and old times I’ll just say its beautiful of that cover i saw on a video which is a piano ver of once upon a December.
After watching a lot of quadrille videos, this is in my top two or three! Elegant and sprightly!
@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.
but would be done hoo down style...ugh...DLA EUROPEJSKICH / POLSKICH SPOŁECZNYCH TEMATÓW TELEWIZYJNYCH: POLONAISE I MAZURKA ESSAYS, FILMY I INSTRUKCJE: PRZEJDŹ DO INTERNETU I SZUKAJ:
ACADEMIA.EDU ......... ..RAYMOND CWIEKA WYŚWIETLANIE FILMÓW WKLEJ FILM - SŁOWA - ESSAY DO DOKUMENTU WORD I NASTĘPNIE KLIKNIJ i NACIŚNIJ KLUCZ CTRL NA WIDEO.
ORYGINALNIE BYŁO NIEKTÓRE 49 KSIĄŻEK.
Gorgeous demonstration!
The dancers are wearing empire/regency fashion, probably fashion around 1820s. So it should be an early 19th century ball dance
Seems like this could be fun if you had thousands and thousands of people. XD
@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.
Looks like everybody is saying hello to everybody
Thank's for upload. Simple and lovely dance!
Got here from the Pickwick papers by Charles Dickens. I was born too late to participate
The music is Sousa's Queen of the harvest Quadrille
This looks like a very old precursor to square dancing.
Square dancing is pretty old itself! Take a look at Playford's English Dancing Master - first edition 1651 - specifically the 8-person squares like Dull Sir John, If All The World Were Paper, Fain I Would, Hyde Park, and so on. I don't know if they quite count as square dancing - they might, or might be ancestors, depending on how you define the term - but they're pretty close. It's quite possible they're even ancestral to the quadrille! (Or at least, watching this video I'm recognizing a lot of figures - the casting figure from Fain I Would, for example.)
@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!
what a raunchy swingers party!! MARGERATE ARE YOU SEEING THIS? MARGERATE?
Funny how people think the Quadrille is "rare." They did this dance on the Beverly Hillbillies all the time! And for those who don't know, violins are also called fiddles...
and once again it is impossible for people to have a decent conversation on TH-cam without troll-like insults. And what is the subject? the controversial quadrille
My Gam Gam from the old country used to dance this dance, until they tarred and feathered her of course...
THAT HAPPEN TO MAH GAMM GAMM TOO WHAT'R THE ODDS MORE UNLIKELY THAN A BOG TOAD ROASTIN ON A SPIT
Referring to the ladies' dresses. The quadrille has been around since before even that.
Like a square dance for the rich and nobile
so this is where the "pony" came from?
I'm sorry, but I strongly disagree with you. And actually, I agree with gryphon. The dress style lends itself to being 1890's, because of the leg 'o' mutton sleeves and the more A-line skirts. If you like, you could look up some 1890s fashion plates in the image search, I think you'll see quite a similarity.
However, I *don't* think that's the point of the video. I believe the video was made to display the dancing style, and not the clothing.
why is it only available in 144p and 240p? i can not accept this.
Is this in the Library of Congress?
Speed dating, circa 1886.
Woah. So my age automatically means I'm wrong? Well, even if I am, I can still think what I like, can't I?
And didn't I already say that the video was about the DANCING?
I never said the costumes were accurate, I was saying that they probably were not aiming to be wearing costumes from the same time frame. T
"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.
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.
did you find out what the music is?
Cotillion!
토마스 만의 토니오 크뢰거에서의 카드리유를 보고 싶어서 찾아왔습니다.
Easy to see why it is a predecessor of Dixieland from this
I’m here and wondering where the jigging music is at 😂
wow 15! years ago! 😂😅😮
Do you know why there are so many wars today? Answer; Not enough dancing, that's why. Less war and more dance I say. Serious though, this looks like it would be so fun to do, but my gown would have to be way prettier than those monstrosities in the video.
Haben es auch beim Theater getanzt
I found out it is the Queen of Harvest Quadrille by John Philip Sousa
Ah, so! Thanks for that - it does have a very Sousa-ish sound - and his marches were all eminently danceable.
I'm here because of Jane Austen's "Emma"!
they actually did a 30,000 people grandball in new york in 1872...lol
Does anyone know the name and/or composer of this dance peace??
As far as I remember, this clothes is not frrom 19 cent, it's look's from the first decade of 20 cent fashion.
Move nuh Rasta
It is wrong and I call it like it is.
country dance is quite another thing. The matrix is surely the same all over Europe, but each country has then developed a different style based on their own traditions and pleasure. Ex. Scottish country dances, set dancing in Ireland, but they all originate from the "Contraddanze" therefore translitterated into Country dances... the countryside has really nothing to do with them at all...
whats the difference between waltz and quadrille
allibooboo22 I'm pretty sure that a waltz is just between two people, but a quadruple is between eight
The waltz has music with three beat units ("3 in a bar"), the quadrille two beat units ("2 in a bar").
There were also quadrille that were composed to use as travelling step for all couples to go around the square waltz, mazurka, polka, schottische, gallop etc sometimes only 1 step for whole dance while others were composed to use all of those different
steps in 1 song. Doable challenging and intetesting
Do you even know what that means? I don't think you do. Let me translate.
"Very fun."
Yes, very mean.
The Quadrille is a lot older than the late 19th cent.
and now mazurka,...
evet hız ikideyken biraz eğlenceli olabilir
I've read that at true "country dances" of the period, in the true country, someone was calling these things, as in a square dance. I mean, come on! How would you know what step to do next?
this music ensemble just does not have it together
LOL you should check out the classical ballet clips. It's World War III. I wonder what the model train collecting videos are like....
that's mean!
00:36 2:30
To be honest most Americans would simply say that the outfits are "Ole timey" and from the "olden days" and be done with it.
Who cares. All the people in the video probably made their own costumes and are pretty much the only people in the world who know the quadrille. They probably filmed this at an annual ball for people who wish they were born in the Victorian Times.
lmfaooooo.. 1 : 05
Очень весело.
Can she dance a quadrille?
No, no, no, no, no
é quadrilha porra
No
@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.
interesting, but a little boring sort of a dance...
Ugh yuck
Sorry you are wrong! Google IS your friend. The costumes are fucked up and from what I can see you are 17 years old.
Why u so triggered?