Country: Fyn, Denmark
Type: progressive longways set dance
Formation: longways set for 2 couples in a set of "as many as will", M to R, W to L (as seen from the music=top of the set).
. Couples are numbered 1, 2, 1, 2 etc from the top of the set.
Step: hopsa
Sheet music: [Jensen, Poul Skårup & Gertrud Weensgård]/ Bondedans. Årslev: De Fynske, June 1990. p. 17.
[or any hopsa with appropriate structure (AABB,A=B=8)].
Recordings: [a hopsa with appropriate structure (AABB,A=B=8)].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | Two-hand turn: M1 and M2, and simultaneously W1 and W2, take 2-hand hold and turn, [8 hopsa steps]. |
| 1-8 | Circle: Couples 1 and 2 form closed circle, and circle [8 hopsa steps]. | |
| 9-12 | (b) | Smedetur (clapping sequence): M1 and M2, and simultaneously W1 and W2, clap [as follows: clap own hands (9:1), opposite's R hand (9:3), own hands (10:1), opposite's L hand (10:3), own hands (11:1), opposite's two hands (11:3), and own hands twice (12).] |
| 13-16 | Elbow-hook turn: M1 and M2, and simultaneously W1 and W2, take R-elbow hook hold, and turn once round [4 hopsa steps]. | |
| 9-16 | Hopsa: Couples 1 and 2 take waltz hold and dance turning hopsa CCW around each other, [8 hopsa steps].
Repeat from (a) as desired. [At repeat, couple 1 dances with couple 3 while couple 2 stands over, etc.] |
Provenance: From a collection of ms notebooks of sheet music etc. begun likely in the second half of the 1700s, and contributed to by 6 generations of the [now] Rasmussen family, a family of musicians in Strandby, on southwest Fyn. The notebooks are now in the collections of Dansk Folkemindesamling.
Source: [Jensen, Poul Skårup & Gertrud Weensgård]/ Bondedans. Årslev: De Fynske, June 1990. p. 17.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2022-02-27, rev. 2023-09-07.
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