What is Round Dancing?

Answer 1

Round Dancing is a form of social ballroom dancing in which the music is pre-choreographed, and the steps are announced by a "cuer," as you dance. The presence of the cuer makes a round dance look a bit different from the usual ballroom dance—all couples are dancing in unison, the choreography can be relatively complex and interesting (since the man doesn't have to think it up as he goes)—but otherwise, round dancers are ballroom dancing. We hold our partners in the normal way. We take the same kinds of steps and dance the same kinds of figures. The rhythms are the familiar rhythms:
waltz
foxtrot
cha cha
rumba
This manual describes how to round dance. The steps, figures, and techniques also work well at weddings, dinner dances, and other social ballroom functions.

For the Round Dancer
1. Find step-by-step descriptions of figures in some 20 different dance rhythms.

refresh your memory of steps you've done
learn new figures
See "Dance Rhythms" at the left.
2. Go beyond the steps to some of the details of form and styling.

holds
lead and follow
body position and movements
head
torso
arms and hands
hips
knees
feet
styling

3. Get the cue sheets for the dances you are doing.
every step described in detail

4. Learn about some of our more traveled teachers.
clinics and festivals
choreography and cue sheets
teaching videos

Answer 2

Round Dancing is a form of social ballroom dancing in which the music is pre-choreographed, and the steps are announced by a "cuer," as you dance. The presence of the cuer makes a round dance look a bit different from the usual ballroom dance i.e. all couples are dancing in unison, the choreography can be relatively complex and interesting (since the man doesn't have to think it up as he goes) but otherwise, round dancers are ballroom dancing. We hold our partners in the normal way. We take the same kinds of steps and dance the same kinds of figures. The rhythms are the familiar rhythms:

- waltz
- foxtrot
- cha cha
- rumba

Hope this helps you friend :)

Answer 3

There are two distinct dance categories called Round Dance. The specific dances belonging to the first of these categories are often considered to be ethnic, folk or country dances. The dances in the second category are more closely related to social ballroom dancing.

History-

Johannes de Grocheio, a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century, was the first to describe the rotunda or round dance. Grocheio wrote that the round dance was performed at great feasts (magnis conviviis).

Circular chain dances-

A folk dance performed by the dancers connected into a circular chain. Various connections are possible; among these are hand-to-hand and hands-on-shoulders. This dance is also called circle dance and explained in more detail in that article.

Examples are Sardinian Ballu tundu, numerous Balkan folk dances: Greek [Horas], (Kolo, Oro), Bulgarian [Horo], Russian Khorovod, Romanian Hora.

Cued round dances
Modern social round dancing is choreographed and cued ballroom dancing that progresses in a circular pattern, counter-clockwise around the dance floor. The two major categories of ballroom rhythm found in round dancing are the smooth or international rhythms, such as foxtrot and waltz, and the latin rhythms, such as cha-cha and rumba.

Round dancing differs from free-style ballroom dancing in that each round dance has been fully choreographed ahead of time, and a "cuer" or leader at the front of the ballroom tells the dancers, as they dance, what steps to do. As the music plays, and just ahead of the beat, so the dancers have time to respond, the cuer names each dance figure in the choreography. As a consequence, all the dancers on the floor are dancing the same steps at the same time.

To create a round dance, a piece of music is selected by the choreographer, and the different steps or figures are chosen to fit the music. If the music swells and pauses briefly, then a dance step that rises and stretches is put into that place. If there is a little syncopation in another part of the song, then a quick step is inserted. The creation of a piece of choreography is like engineering a machine, with every gear and lever in just the right place to give smooth and flowing motion. The step-by-step instructions on how to dance this choreography are written out in what is called a cue sheet.

Examples of social dances that may be danced in "round" fashion are - Bolero - Cha-cha-cha - Foxtrot - Hustle - Jive - Lindy Hop - Mambo - Merengue - Paso Doble - Quickstep - Rumba - Salsa - Samba - Single Swing - Slow Two step - Tango - Two step - Waltz - Viennese Waltz - West Coast Swing -

Roundalab is the International Association of Round Dance Teachers, Inc. Roundalab has established a "Phase Rating System" of round dancing, in order to rate round dance figures according to difficulty and complexity.

Salsa Rueda is a kind of round dance in which there is no complete pre-choreographed sequence, and the dance patterns are called out in a random order..

Answer 4

Round Dancing is a form of social ballroom dancing in which the music is pre-choreographed, and the steps are announced by a "cuer," as you dance.

Round dancing is partner dancing

Answer 5

Round dancing is a magical dance that involves 10 people holding hands and circling a dance floor in a circular motion and doing circular movements like swing limbs eg: arms in a circular way.

Answer 6

I found this website that explains what Round dancing is and how to do it!!

Answer 7

people wil form a circle and everyone will do the only one step
that is called as round dancing