What is Schottische?

Initial life as a bohemian dance, Schottische has found his way to many different countries and over the years has adapted to a number of different musical genres. This rural dance with its series of two runs and hops associated with four steps of rotation is relatively easy to manage and had the right steps to find a way to work with so many different settings. Here are some of the highlights of the history of Schottisch when dancing has found its way to many countries and cultures.

Schottische Dancing follows its origin back to the Victorian era. Schottische Dance was considered an integral part of folk dance madness, which was the foundation for most of the period. During this time, Schottische began to migrate to other countries and develop the consequences between folk music and dance traditions of Europe.

For example, Schottische variations influenced France, Portugal, Italy, Sweden and Spain. As expected, the composers of the country began to compose music pieces ideal for dancing with Schottische. Schottische music served to increase the popularity of dance movements and maintained Schottische in the foreground of popular dance throughout the 19th century.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Schottische made a jump to the New World and became a mark in the United States. Schottische adapted to the local culture and melted into a hybrid with ragtime. Such remarkable ragtime composers, as Thomas S. Allen and Buddy Bolden wrote and showed these newer combinations of Schottische and Ragtime, often referred to as Hot Schottisches.

The success of this newer version of Schottische has helped spread popular ragtime in general and even began to influence the course of American jazz music. The first two decades of a century were hard to find any club in New Orleans Tklobouk did not include music ideal for Schottische dance.

During the rest of the 20th century Schottische continued to expand its influence and became an integral part of the country andWestern dance, especially promenade dance. The similarity of movements to Polka helped Schottische to connect with Country Western fans, as well as some folk and bluegrass enthusiasts. After a successful opening in the United States, Schottisch began to influence in such South American countries, especially in Brazil.

The modern day Schottische Dancing has a strong affinity to reggae and continues to affect the line dance in country music. While the dance has gone through several adaptations over time, Schottische Dancing will still survive in a number of different cultures and always with the award -winning base of the dancers to keep it alive.