Country: Salling, Denmark
Type: set dance
Formation: 4 couple quadrille. Head couples (couples 1 and 2) respectively have their backs to or face the music.
Couple 3 stands on the side to the right of couple 1, and couple 4 faces couple 3.
[Couple numbering changed from original to conform to standard Danish numbering.]
Steps: run
Sheet music: 358:513 [Note: B-section played 4 times.]
Recordings: Mikkelsen, Verner Village folk dances (Folk Fun 95861 V.M.) track 12.
Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
|:1-8:| | 1 (a) | Ring formation [closed circle], 16 running steps CW and CCW. |
9-16 | (b) | Couples 3 and 4 run in ring formation [ie form closed circle] CW with 16 steps, returning to position and forming arches with inside hands joined and raised. |
9-16 | Couples 1 and 2 run under the arch on the left, separate, and turn outward, the man returning to his own place, where he turns the opposite woman once around in ring grasp [two-hand hold]. | |
|:9-16:| | Couples 1 and 2 repeat (b), circling and forming the arches, couples 3 and 4 running under the arches. | |
17-24 | (c) | M1 and M2 place R arm about the waist of the opposite W and run forward 4 steps, backward 4 steps, forward 1 step with a stamp, throwing the contrary woman back to her partner, and catching his own, turning her once around in dance position. |
17-24 | Couples 3 and 4 repeat (c). | |
|:25-32:| | (d) | Grand chain once around. |
Part (a) is danced CW and CCW in all figures. | ||
Parts (b), (c), and (d) are the same in all sequences. | ||
|:1-8:| | (a) | [Handwritten note by Frank Grose(?):
In here John inserts join hands with partner (ring grasp) and run CCW [sic] 16 steps and CW [sic] 16 steps] |
|:1-8:| | 2 (a) | Women's single mill [R/L-hand star]. |
|:1-8:| | 3 (a) | Men's single mill [R/L-hand star]. |
|:1-8:| | 4 (a) | Women's double mill [two-hand star]. |
|:1-8:| | 5 (a) | Men's double mill [two-hand star]. |
|:1-8:| | 6 (a) | Women's circle with waist grasp [back basket]. |
|:1-8:| | 7 (a) | Men's circle with waist grasp [back basket]. |
|:1-8:| | 8 (a) | Ring formation [closed circle]. |
Finish the dance by turning CW and CCW in dance position [waltz hold]. |
Source: Bryans, Helen L. and John Madsen/ Scandinavian dances. Book I. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co. Ltd., 1942. p. 20
Html: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2012-02-13, rev. 2021-08-24.
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