Dances of The Netherlands
Ven-Ten Bensel, E. van der
Clogs and baggy trousers, wide checked skirts
and white caps - is not this our picture when
we think of Dutch folk dances? But this
costume belongs only to one dance and one
part of the country, even there the women
are coming to prefer 'a pleated black skirt
which gives a slim and even elegant outline'.
And who would suspect the sober Dutch of
such a dance as the Cramignon, a chain dance
that winds 'in and out of the houses and inns
of the vi...