The Dashing White Sergeant is a Scottish folk dance, performed to a similarly titled piece of music. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Folk dance is a term used to describe a large number of dances mostly of European origin that tend to share the following attributes originally danced in about the The dance is in 4/4 time, thus it is a form of reel. The reel is a Folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type. The dance is performed by groups of six dancers.