🇬🇧 Dorset Gigner, Thomas Hardy, traditional apple cakes, rural aesthetics and the Jurassic coast: it is all in this ballroom dance called The Lancers or Les Lanciers from the mid-19th century. This elegant ballroom dance originated in England and was once a staple of the European social dance culture. Here we showcase one of the five figures, called “Dorset”. Watch our talented students bring history to life with "Les Lanciers" or “The Lancers,” also known as the English Quadrille. Our Histori

Quadrille Dance Quadrille Dance orginated in France but became popular in England. The eighteenth centuary English influence is revealed in the Quadrille Dance which is now prevalent in Carriacou. Initially, it started in the village Windward where the Scottish emigrants resided and was later transferred to villages like Six Roads and Hillsborough. It was further brought to L'Esterre by Willie Alexander who resided in Six Roads and later moved to that village where the dance is now popular. Ther