Country: Møn, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, varsovienne hold, facing in LOD.
Steps:
chassé (change step),
polka
Sheet music:
(1) 358:198
(2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/Gamle danse fra Møn. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1983, p.8.
[a variant of Die Gigerlkönigin]
Recordings:
Gasslander, Timmy 'March of polka - day 8, Dronningedans (Møn)' [YouTube];
Grosses Orchester mit Chor und Solisten 'Die Gigerlkönigin' Berliner Luft [YouTube];
Bauernkapelle 'Die Gigerlkönigin-Rheinlander' (Victor 73933B) [Library of Congress. National Jukebox];
Carl Woitschach mit großem Blasorchester 'Die Gigerlkönigin' (Telefunken (A 10707))
[Internet Archive].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-4 | (a) | Promenade: Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, all dance forward in OD, 4 chassé steps. |
| 5-8 | (b) | W turn: Dropping hold with ML/WL hand, M dances forward with 4 chassé steps, while W turns 2 times CW under the joined R hands, 4 polka steps. |
| Repeat from (a) as desired. |
See videos from/with KØST2017; Herlev Gamle Danse 2022.
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/Gamle danse fra Møn. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1983, pp. 8-9.
See also:
-- Sørensen, Per.
'Dronningedans fra Møn' in:
Dansens og musikkens rødder nr. 12. Jan. 1997. [in Danish]
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-02-02, rev. 2023-08-08.
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