set dance

Irish set dancing, sometimes called "Irish sets", is a popular form of folk dancing in Ireland danced to Irish tunes in groups of eight or four dancers.
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The tradition

Irish set dancing, sometimes called "Irish sets", is a popular form of folk dancing in Ireland danced to Irish tunes in groups of eight or four dancers. It is also sometimes named set dance, but this name refers more often to a kind of dance in Irish stepdance.

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set dance is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1

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Cite: “set dance.” folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/set-dance — text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
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