Country: Sjælland, 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.
Steps: hopsa, run,
hoptrin (step hop),
Sheet music: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ II: 26 gamle folkedanse fra forskellige egne. Kolding, 2003 p. 20.
Recordings:
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-8:| | 1 (a) | All form closed circle, and circle CW, 8 hoptrin. Ditto CCW, 8 hoptrin. |
| 9-12 | (b) | Head couples half-chain across, 4 hoptrin. |
| 13-16 | Head couples half-chain back to place, 4 hoptrin. | |
| 9-16 | Side couples repeat (b). | |
| |:17-24:| | (c) | All dance R-hand chain around the set, 16 small and lively hoptrin. |
| Parts (b) and (c) are the same in all sequences | ||
| |:1-8:| | 2 (a) | All dance [turning] hopsa [CCW] around the set. |
| Repeat from (2 (a)) as desired. |
Provenance: Sørensen (see below) speculates that 'seksture' of this type, ie in a four couple quadrille, emerged in Denmark in the period 1830-1840. He surther
proposes that seksture emerged in the dance halls of the 'common people', rather than in the balls and assembly halls of the upper classes, and were first
introduced in the latter about 1872.
Source: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ II: 26 gamle folkedanse fra forskellige egne. Kolding, 2003 pp. 20-21.
See also:
-- Sørensen, Per Sekstur - 1. del in:
Dansens og musikens rødder nr. 38, May 1999 [in Danish]
-- Aabech, Tage Danse for flere par in Om
traditionel fynsk dansemusik
-- Nørgård, Kjeld Om
seksture Hjemstavnsliv, 1982-06.
-- Heltoft, Jørgen Tak
til Kjeld Nørgård Hjemstavnsliv, 1982-07.
-- Thomsen, H. Vad Lille
bidrag til Kjeld Nørgaards 'Om seksture' Hjemstavnsliv, 1982-07.
Translation: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2021-09-09, rev. 2021-10-13.
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