Country: Denmark
Formation: longways progressive set
Formation: any number of couples in 2 lines, M to R, W to L as seen from the music. Numbered 1-2-3-4 etc. from the music (top of the set).
Steps:
chassé (change step).
sideløbstrin (slip step).
Sheet music: Laurent, Pierre Jean/
Lommebog for dandseyndere - VI nye skotske dandse.
København: C.C. Lose, 1816 [pp. 6-21 of the pdf file]
Recordings:
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | Chaine en six: Couple 1 stands in centre face-to-face between couples 2 and 3.
Couple 1 turns partner CW with R-in-R hand hold (1-4), 4 chassé steps. M1 turns W3 CCW with L-in-L hold; meanwhile W1 turns M2 CCW with L-in-L hold (5-8), 4 chassé steps. |
| 1-8 | Couple 1 turns partner CW with R-in-R hand hold (1-4), 4 chassé steps.
M1 turns W2 CCW with L-in-L hold; meanwhile W1 turns M3 CCW with L-in-L hold (5-8), 4 chassé steps. |
|
| 9-16 | (b) | Promenade: M2 with W1 followed by M1 with W2 , holding inside hands, lead down the set, 8 chassé steps.
At the bottom of the set all turn singly and M1 and M2 exchange partners. |
| 9-16 | M2 with W2, followed by M1 with W1 lead up the set, 8 chassé steps.
Finish on own side in order 2-1-3. | |
| Repeat from (a) as desired.
[When the dance repeats (from (a)), couple 1 dances with couples 4 and 3, while couple 2 rests. When couple 1 dances with couples 6 and 5, couples 2 dances with couples 4 and 3. If there are many couples in the lines, every 4th couple may start.] |
Provenance: Laurent's Lommebog for dandseyndere is thought to be the only source of ecossaise (also called 'skots' in some areas) dance descriptions
known from Denmark. It contains 6 ecossaises and a 'Wals', described with text and diagrams, as well as music composed by Møller. No indication of steps.
Musicians' notebooks of the period, however, contain numerous 'skots' or 'ecossaise' tunes.
The above is my interpretation of the diagrams and text - other interpretations are possible.
Source: Laurent, Pierre Jean / Lommebog for dandseyndere -
VI nye skotske dandse. København: C.C. Lose, 1816 [p. 5 of the pdf file]
See also:
-- Nørgård, Kjeld "
Engelskdanse og skotskdanse, 2. del" in Dansens og musikens rødder nr. 31, Oct. 1998.
-- Koslovsky, Joseph/ Trois polonoises, trois ecossaises et une quadrille. Saint Petersbourg: s.n.(c. 1808).
-- Allabieff, Aleksandr/ 3 Masurques, 2 ecossaises, valse et quadrille. Moscou: s.n. (c. 1810).
-- Müller, Carl Friedrich/ Quatre quadrilles ecossaises. Hanovre: s.n. (c. 1814)
-- Liller, Johann Nicolaus/ Tanz-Kunst Leipzig: s.n., 1842. (pp. 27-28, pp. 31-32 of the pdf file)
-- Powers, Richard/ "The 1825 ecossaise" s.l.: s.n., n.d.
-- Renausy, [Jacques]/ Méthode de Danse Paris: Margueritat, 1861. (p. 34, p. 40 of the pdf file)
-- Willock, H. D./ Ball-Room Guide, A Manual Of Dancing Rev. ed. Glasgow: John Cameron, ca 1868. (p.51, p.14 of the pdf file)
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-10-12, rev. 2021-12-04.
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