Talk:Round dance

Dubious
The following section removed as dubious. 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).

De Grocheio mentions rotunda in the classification of musica vulgaris or folk music, as a type of cantus versualis or "versed song". The original latin text is available online, and I have no idea why it is a "round dance":

Cantilena vero quaelibet rotunda vel rotundellus a pluribus dicitur, eo quod ad modum circuli in se ipsam reflectitur et incipit et terminatur in eodem. Nos autem solum illam rotundam vel rotundellum dicimus, cuius partes non habent diversum cantum a cantu responsorii vel refractus. Et longo tractu cantatur velut cantus coronatus, cuiusmodi est gallice Toute sole passerai le vert boscage. Et huiusmodi cantilena versus occidentem, puta in Normannia, solet decantari a puellis et iuvenibus in festis et magnis conviviis ad eorum decorationem.

At a very best stretch, the description may refer to a choral dance (btw missing article), Dixit. `'mikka 10:47, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced, confusing
Perhaps this needs to be a disambig, with a page for ballroom, then redirects to circle dance. Or this needs to be a page for Native roundies, as those are the links that are leading here, and those are not about ballroom dance. Can't do it right now, but it needs to be done. - CorbieV  ☊ ☼ 17:58, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

As there's been no objections, I'm proceeding with this. "Round Dance" and "Roundie" or "Roundy" has a long usage in First Nations communities for Circle dances, both ceremonial and social. - CorbieV  ☊ ☼ 20:40, 29 June 2018 (UTC)