Tea dance
A tea dance , also called a small house ball , is a public social dance event.
In England, tea dance or thé dansant was introduced in the early 19th century as a private afternoon company. It usually started at 8 p.m. and ended around 11 p.m. There was dancing and after the first dance, tea and appetizers were served. The tea dance was a casual way for young people to meet their peers of the opposite sex. The tea dance was popular in England until World War II.
The dance tea had a social climax in the 1920s in the western tea houses with tango music . In the following period, the cocktail party became popular and increasingly took the place of the teen afternoon.
The tea dance often takes place on Sunday afternoon at tea time (in the dance club, community center, discotheque, dance school, etc.) with tea , coffee and cake and a solo entertainer .
Today, other dance events in dance clubs or dance schools are also called dance tea, unless it is about free training or a tournament. He is to be used especially in dance schools to repeat what they have learned since the possibility is very limited in most nightclubs, ballroom dancing to dance.
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- ↑ Duden Editor: Sunken Vocabulary Words that we will miss . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-411-91161-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Karin Schrott: The normative corset: Regulations for women in society and the public in German-language decency and behavior literature between 1871 and 1914 . Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 3-8260-2955-0 , p. 199 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Afternoon Tea in Britain
- ^ Waltz around a Tea Table