„Round and round“ dance belongs to thegroup of rotative dances, i.e. dances that are characteristic by the rotation of the pair around the common axis. The accompanying melodies to the „round and round“ dance represent in the context of the Czech folk songs a special musical-dancing type. Many collectors disclosed the deep roots and importance of this type (among them, Božena Němcová, Ludvík Kuba, Otakar Zich, Čeněk Holas, Jindřich Jindřich). The point for departure for further analytical studies represented the most complete possible heuristics, in other words, the gathering of all accessible mentions and documents about the „round and round“ dance. The first study of the proposed three-part cycle brings about the descriptions of the dance in the collections from the 19th and the first halfof the 20th century, many authentic testimonies, glosses, comments and analyses that help to set up the concrete image of this ancient dance culture. They also offers the information about the latent appearance of this musical-dancing type in the collections of songs and dances of Southern and eastern Bohemia and engages in the concrete form of the dancing step and the position of the „round and round“ dance in the system of the Czech folk dances.