Anglaise (dance)

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Anglaise (French for English), also known as anglois and angloise, was a term used loosely in the late 17th and 18th centuries to refer to any of the English folk dance types. The term was predominantly used in Continental Europe and was most often applied to the country dance. However, the word anglaise was also used to refer to other English dance forms like the jig, the hornpipe, and even the Scottish reel. European composers wrote music for the anglaise until the end of the 18th century. The anglaise inspired the development of the French contredanse, and the anglaise dance has also been called contredanse anglaise; particularly in dances using a traditional English longways formation.

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