A quadrille is a type of old-fashioned dance for four or more couples. a dance, popular especially in the 19th century, in which the dancers form a square (cuadrilla , from quadriglia, from quadra ). Dance for four couples in square formation, fashionable from the late 18th through the 19th century. Imported to England from Parisian ballrooms in 1815, it consisted of four or five contredanses (see country dance), each danced with prescribed combinations of intertwining figures rather than depending on intricate individual steps. It was often danced to opera melodies. See also American square dance
The Quadrille is a "Set" dance It consists of a series of dance figures, the most frequently used is called the "Flirtation" figure, in which the man dances with each woman in turn
4 couples on the sides of a square, couple 1 have their backs to the band, the 2's face the band, the 3's are on the right of the 1's, the 4's face the 3's In some dances couples 1 and 2 are the Ends and 3 and 4 the Sides