The style originated as a medieval Castilian dance, called the seguidilla, which was flamenconized in the 19th century.
A similar structure was shared with the saltarello, another medieval dance.
They were moving round and round each other like a medieval dance, never touching.
There are references to it in 19th Century antiquarian journals and its origins can be traced back to medieval dance.
Not to mention spinning themselves: the festival will offer Irish and medieval dance.
Very little evidence survives about medieval dance except what can be gleaned from paintings and works of literature from this time period.
The farandole is also frequently presented as a medieval dance, based on surviving iconography.
His nickname Crouchdance is probably derived from the name of a Norwegian medieval dance.
The dancers were excellent, as were the jokes, which referred to a medieval dance of death.
It opts for fatalism (a medieval dance of death ) and then rejects it.
