The Dance Section

After the speed dating bit in our performance, we have an old-fashioned dance. By this I mean the girls are lined up on one side and they boys on the other, the girls have dance cards and choose a boy to dance with

Dance Cards

Dance cards were what the women or girls had and carried around with them all evening and they recorded the names of the boys or men who they wanted to dance with. It was like a bucket list of men to dance with and they looked like this.


The girls tended to go for the better dancers. So if you were a good dancer, you'd get most of the ladies. If you weren't up to scratch, then bless your soul you had a long night ahead of you.



















The Types of Dances Done 
In our dance, we're doing the waltz and that is the main type of  dance that would be performed at dances. There would also be ballroom dancing and as Dances were started in the 1800s, there wasn't anything lively or energetic, it was all on the down low and sophisticated. However, later on when dances were becoming more common and teenagers were taking part, swing-dances were introduced and replaced the waltz and ballroom dancing.