Country: Avernakø, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: open circle of couples, waltz hold, facing LOD
Step: valstrin (waltz),
gangtrin (walk)
Sheet music: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Avernakø og Korshavn.
1 udg. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 2001, p.18.
Recordings: [any waltz with appropriate structure (AABB,A=B=8) and tempo].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-8:| | (a) | Walk & turn: Beginning with outside foot, couples walk forward in LOD [1-2], followed by 2 waltz steps
turning CW and moving in LOD [3-4],
Repeat three times [5-8,1-8]. |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Couple turn: Couples dance turning waltz, turning CW and moving in LOD.
Repeat from (a) as desired. |
Provenance: documented by both Viggo Hertel and H.C. Michelsen in 1911. The tune is a copy from the Avernakø collection [in the archive of Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)].
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Avernakø og Korshavn.
1 udg. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 2001, p.18.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2023-05-12.
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