18th-Century Social Dance - Minuet

Minuet is a set piece of a ball. It is performed couple by couple in front of the whole room. It was a means for people finding a partner.

[@BethDiane]

It's actually not THAT difficult, especially not if you have lessons every day, which a rich heiress certainly would have.

[@melmoth2219]

Excellent video. Fascinating, because I have always viewed the Minuet as the lightweight dance of the Baroque and Classical eras (and played them that way as a keyboardist). But, this dance is fraught with issues of emotional significance. Composers would have known this too. Thank you for teaching me something I was clueless about ... It will change how I play Minuets.

[@jeffrey322]

I'd like to know it Lord Yarmouth and the very pretty maiden got together after this.

[@gothic-rosenovorossiya5740]

The very best rejection in this video I ever saw in my life :-D Best ending :-) My very favorite :-D

[@rv8-m948]

About 2:15 this video became for an instant quite elegant which is probably why this dance has withstood the test of time. I suspect what little of dance I learned ('Do the Twist') will not. This video is not properly credited.

[@andersolofsson7901]

Totally love it :)

[@benmole5683]

what show is this?

[@танц.клубПируэтАсбест]

beautifully!!!

[@DS-yg4qs]

That gray lady didnt show us any steps at all.

[@andrestarke241]

very nice!

[@emaniwitt8712]

we do this in class

[@ThePauloVJCastilho]

Mestre Sala e Porta Bandeira.

[@samaval9920]

Surprisingly, by early 1800s, newly independent Argentina & Uruguay, 2 new S American republics, created several what they called menuets for their new--republics !! Minue Federal Minue Montonero, ex.See videos understand each dance’s name, Minut-/ from royalist to Republican ?!

[@junkratmain74]

Watching this in drama class be like :

[@courtly5982]

This woman is struggling with this, she will never be able to do ballet de la nuit

[@alpha-alpha-alpha]

LOL, What to do if a 300 pound offered his hand?

[@crocodileranger8404]

he would just roll around his partner

[@gillehrer2824]

2:00 Those 18th century male dancers look like gay to me! It must be their moves!

[@akennedy6810]

the power of cultural expectations. :)

[@nathanpayne6765]

That was the custom of the day in movement among fashionable high society -- though if you put 'gay' into its meaning from back then, then most certainly, it was a _very_ 'gay' dance, though not an indicator of a person's romantic interests.