Interesting....and beautiful! Number 18...well the quintessential dance of the 20's is the Charleston....by today's recollection. But the Fox Trot was danced more at the time and these dancers don't look like they're doing the Charleston. The couple in number 19 look teens to me so maybe it's a 2-Step or a Rag. However they look like they're waltzing. I don't think the poses in the paintings are very accurate in representing the steps of a particular dance. The Virginia Reel is indeed a colonial dance so that may be what they have in mind for number 20. Now the 19th century couple could be doing anything.... the Hippy Hippy Shake Shake. From what I know there is a huge surge in dances with the coming of the middle class. Maybe it's some Round Dance, or the Boston Waltz. But of course the Waltz nor the Polka originate in America.
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