Sequence dance

Ideally, sequence music will have a four bar introduction at the correct tempo and in the correct rhythm, followed by 5 or 6 sixteen bar sequences allowing all dancers to progress around the room and ending when the music finishes.

Each has an accepted speed of playing so that a typical programme of sequence dancing has a wide variety of activity.

Sequence dances are split into three different sections: Old Time (also occasionally seen as Old Tyme - now referred to as Classical), Modern, and Latin, with the dividing line being somewhere in the early 20th century.

New sequences are being devised all the time, and the number of which have been published as scripts stands at over four thousand (as of 2010).

[citation needed] Most people who attend these functions will recognise Saunter Together, Mayfair Quickstep, Waltz Cathrine, Rumba One, and many others.

There are fifteen competition dances which cover March, Foxtrot, Tango, and Viennese Waltz rhythms.

These are written in a shorthand form similar to phone texting or knitting patterns.