Fremad, Falster & Møn

Country: Falster & Møn
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in an open circle, waltz hold
Steps: chassé (change step), polka

    Fremad, Falster
Sheet music: (1) Smedens første fynbo, af Børge Christensen 358:1, (2) Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p. 55., (3) Bryans, Helen L. & John Madsen/ Scandinavian dances. Book I. Toronto, ON: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1942. p.5.
Recordings: Harmonika Familien Good old days vol. 3 [YouTube]; Køge Spillemandsforening 'Smedens 1 fynbo' Fredagsbal track 03; 'Forward 1' Original music from Denmark track 10 [YouTube].
Bars Part Dance progression:
1-4 (a) Polka: Couples turn 4 polka steps
5 (b) Promenade: Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance 1 chassé step forward in LOD.
6   Couples stamp with inside (MR/WL) foot.
7-8   Couples repeat (b).
1-8   Couples repeat (a) and (b).
|:9-16:|   Couples repeat (a) and (b) twice.
Repeat from (a) as desired.

See video from Varde 2019.

Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Beskrivelse af gamle danske folke danse hefte I. 7:e opl. København; Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1976, p. 5.
See also:
-- 'forward dance' in: Hanson, Lida Saboni & Laura Wolcott Goldsmith (trans.)/ Old Danish folk dances described by the Association for the Promotion of Folk Dances (Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme). -[ first part]. Copenhagen: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1906. p.6.
-- 'forward' in: Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p. 55.
-- 'the forward dance' in: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Danish folk dances. Trans. by Viggo Bovbjerg [Chicago, IL]: Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, 1917. p.23.
-- Bryans, Helen L. & John Madsen/ Scandinavian dances. Book I. Toronto, ON: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1942. p.5.

   
    Fremad, Møn
Sheet music: (1) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Møn. 4 opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1997, p. 6. (2) Smedens første fynbo, af Børge Christensen 358:1, (3) Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p. 55., (4) Bryans, Helen L. & John Madsen/ Scandinavian dances. Book I. Toronto, ON: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1942. p.5.
Bars Part Dance progression:
1 (a) Promenade: Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance 1 chassé step forward in LOD.
2   Couples hop twice on inside (MR/WL) foot, while swinging outside (ML/WR) foot forward and back.
3-4   Couples repeat (a).
5-8 (b) Polka: Couples turn 4 polka steps.
1-8   Couples repeat (a) and (b).
|:9-16:|   Couples repeat (a) and (b) twice.
Repeat from (a) as desired.

Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Møn. 4 opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1997, p. 6.
See also:
-- Fremad (Møn)


Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-07-07, rev. 2022-10-04.

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