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Contredanse
Contredanse meaning
A folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other. | The quadrille. | A piece of music in the rhythm of such a dance.
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According to Jean Fouchard, mereng evolved from the fusion of slave music genres (such as the chica and calenda) with ballroom forms related to the French-Haitian contredanse ( kontradans in creole ).
Lorin's contradanse choreography, one of the earliest western dance notations The country dance was introduced to the court of Louis XIV of France, where it became known as contredanse, and later to Germany and Italy.