Cotillon
Creator: Pierre Chartrand (2015)
French dancing masters in the early 18th century created a dance for two couples called the cotillon. This morphed into the cotillion and later became the quadrille. The opening minutes of this presentation by Pierre Chartrand's Danse Cadence troupe illustrates that four-person dance.
Collection: Historical squares
Subjects: Cotillon / cotillion
Tags: cotillon, Pierre Chartrand
Subjects: Cotillon / cotillion
Tags: cotillon, Pierre Chartrand
Item Relations
| This Item | is related to | Item: Emergence and Development of the Cotillon |
| This Item | is related to | Item: La Nouvelle Carel, French cotillion 1762 |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Cotillon / Cotillion / Contredanse Française |
| This Item | is related to | Item: The Birth of the Cotillion and the Quadrille, French Contredanses |
| Item: Cotillon website | is related to | This Item |
Citation
Pierre Chartrand, “Cotillon,” Square Dance History Project, accessed March 29, 2025, https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1529.
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Title
Cotillon
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Description
French dancing masters in the early 18th century created a dance for two couples called the cotillon. This morphed into the cotillion and later became the quadrille. The opening minutes of this presentation by Pierre Chartrand's Danse Cadence troupe illustrates that four-person dance.
Creator
Date Created
2015