Hmm, how to explain...
Ok, so there are dances. Popular ones are the likes of the gay gordons, the dashing white sergeant, the virginia reel, the military two step, and the strip the willow, as well as many others.

There is music. Some is reasonably paced, some is fast, very little of it is slow. Some is in normal timing, some is in jig timing, which is a bit funky and great fun to play.

Dances generally involve dancing with one other person, or a certain group of other people. There's dancing, walking, turning, spinning, and setting*.

People are quite often rather sweaty by the end, and it be a good form of exercise.

Any questions?

*setting is a kind of jump and kick thing which I make up whenever I do it.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 23:24, Reply)