Country: Langeland, Denmark
Formation: set dance
Formation: 2 couples, facing
Steps:
hurretrin (buzz step),
chassé (change step), reverse buzz steps,
gangtrin (walk)
Sheet music: (1) 358:62,
(2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra forskellige egne. 3 opl. København:
Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1998 p. 20.
Almost identical to
the music for pigernes fornøjelse from Præstø.
Recordings:
Hedebo Spillemændene track 12;
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-4:| | 1 (a) | Circle: Sets form closed circles` and dance CW with 8 buzz steps (1-4). Ditto CCW with reverse buzz steps (1-4). |
| 5-7 | (b) | Figuré: Beginning with MR/WL (inside) foot, opposites walk CW around each other, looking at each other over R shoulder, 6 walking steps.
Finish facing partner. |
| 8 | All step side R, away from the centre of the circle, and curtsey/bow to partner. | |
| 9-12 | (c) | Chain: All starting with R foot, dance R-hand chain beginning with partner, 3 chassé steps (9-11). Give R hand to partner, L hand to opposite, and R hand to partner without dropping hold with L hand, so that the circle is closed with W facing out. Stamp 3 times (L R L) (12). |
| 9-12 | Repeat (c) (9-11). All pause (12). | |
| Parts (b) and (c) are the same in all sequences. | ||
| |:1-4:| | 2 (a) | One-hand hold: Both couples take R hand in R hold with partner and dance CW on the spot, 8 buzz steps. Ditto CCW with L-in-L hand, 8 buzz steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 3 (a) | Two-hand hold: Both couples take 2-hand hold with partner and dance CW on the spot, 8 buzz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 buzz steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 4 (a) | Crossed two-hand hold: Both couples take crossed 2-hand hold with partner and dance CW on the spot, 8 buzz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 buzz steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 5 (a) | W crossed two-hand hold: Both W take crossed 2-hand hold and dance CW on the spot, 8 buzz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 buzz steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 6 (a) | M crossed two-hand hold: Both M take crossed 2-hand hold and dance CW on the spot, 8 buzz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 buzz steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 7 (a) | W crossed two-hand hold: Both W take crossed 2-hand hold and dance CW on the spot, 8 buzz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 buzz steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 8 (a) | M crossed two-hand hold: Both M take crossed 2-hand hold and dance CW on the spot, 8 buzz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 buzz steps. |
| |:1-4:| | Circle: The dance finishes with both couples in closed circle, 8 buzz steps CW, 8 buzz steps CCW. |
See videos from KØST2017 and YouTube with Brøndby Spillemandslaug 1992, Steen Jagd og Jørgen Jeppesen.
Provenance:
Music originally composed by Nicolas Dezède (ca 1740-1790), a French composer, for his opera-comique "Julie" (1772)
act 2 scene 1, with libretto by Jacques Marie Boutet Monvel. "Julie" was translated and performed in the Royal Theatre in
Copenhagen in 1783. Shortly thereafter, "Lison dormait" or "I krattet Lise hvile tager" in Danish, was published as
a broadsheet ballad.
See also Mozart's '9 Variations in C on "Lison dormait"' 1778, nr 264 in the Köchel-Verzeichnis.
The dance was first documented by Carla Schibler in 1932 who had learned it from some elderly residents of Langeland.
Later, in 1942, H.H. Hansen published the version commonly danced now, which he had learned from Rasmus Jensen, an apprentice
bricklayer, 'modern' dance teacher and folk dance teacher, originally from Langeland, where they still danced the old
dances.
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra forskellige egne. 3 opl. København:
Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1998 pp. 20-21.
See also:
-- Sørensen, Per '
Pigernes Fornøjelse, Gamle nr. 12 m.fl., del 1'. in:
Dansens og musikkens rødder nr. 68, Feb. 2002. [in Danish]
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2019-03-18, rev. 2022-11-24.
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