country dance
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The other musical styles, which shift with lightning speed, are musical hall, jazz, courtly dance and pretty much all else on show in 1920s Paris.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2019
PeiJu Chien-Pott, a principal with that group, floats toward us with magical airiness, levitating off the ground in a courtly dance with the wind.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016
The settlement of fines between financial institutions and regulators is always a courtly dance.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2016
It coquettishly combines 1920s chutzpah and eighteenth-century courtly dance, quoting along the way actual music by eighteenth-century Italian composers.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
