The Bassadance: Basse Dance

The bassadance is a dance where you have to dance slow. The bassadance, also referred to as Basse danse, was a popular dance from the 15th to 16th centuries. The word Basse describes a movement in dance, where people glide slowly and gracefully without having their feet leave the floor. There were four types of steps: pas simple, pas double, demarche, and branle. With the pas simples, dancers took two steps in one measure, with the feel of 6/4. In pas double, the dancers took three steps in one measure, in the feel of 3/2, demarche, similar to pas double in it's 3/2 feel, required to take one step back and then shift three motions, with branle, dancers took four motions in the feel of 6/4. Something usually additional has also occurred which was called a reverence, it was a bow, taking place before or after the dance, usually occupying one measure of beats. Men liked the bassadance because they could wear tights and show off their calves to the women. Missing conclusion sentence.
The pavane dance originated in Italy, and was a processional dance, this dance swept through Spanish-influenced courts in 16th century Italy. The music accompanying the dance survived beyond the actual dance it went into the Baroque period in the1600’s, where it eventually developed into the allemande/courante sequence. It is in slow duple meter (2/2 time), and follows a form of A,A1,B,B1,C,C1, using counterpoint accompaniment. The pavane dance was often paired with the Galliard dance, the steps used in the pavane dance survives in modern times as the "hesitation step" sometimes used in