Galopade/Galopadehop

Country: Vestjylland, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in circle, facing LOD, waltz hold.
Steps: chassé (two-step), galop, walk
Sheet music: traditionally danced to 358:447, but likely any galop will do.
Recordings: Trio Tinus track 03; Æ Tinuser Gammeldans og knågstykker cd A track 06.

Bars Part Dance progression
1 (a) [Beginning with outside foot (ML/WR)] One chassé forward in LOD.
2   Step forward on inside (MR/WL) foot (1:1). Hop on inside foot (1:3) with a light stamp.
3-4 (b) Dance 2 galop steps turning CW or CCW, moving in LOD.
    Repeat from (a) as desired.

Æ Tinuser played this as part of a set consisting of den lille hamborger, den store hamborger, galopade, and den bette jydsk'.

Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Legestuen. 5:e opl. København; Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1983, p. 15.
See also: Folkemusikkens Fælles Sekretariat/ Folkemusik på film - 1970'erne: traditionel dans i Vrøgum (DVD) Århus: FFS, 1979.
Translation: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2020-07-12, rev. 2021-11-26.


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