Hamborg[er] skotsk

Country: Vejle Vesteregn, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, waltz hold, facing LOD..
Steps: hæl og tå (heel-toe), polka, totrin (pivot)
Sheet music:
(1) Folkets Hus Spillefolk hamborg skotsk, efter Otto Trads
(2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Vejle Vesteregn. 5:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1997, p. 12.
(3) Can also be danced to similar tune 358:531 'spids hamborger, Vendsyssel'
Recordings: Den Fynske Spillemandskvartet track A6; Rebild Spillemændene gruppe 1 [YOuTube]; Spillemandslauget Fandango Bal med Spillemandslauget Fandango track 07.

Bars Part Dance progression
1 (a) Polka & heel-toe: All turn half-way round CW, moving in LOD, 1 polka step.
2   All dance one heel-toe step with inside (MR/WL) foot.
3   All turn half-way round CW, 1 polka step.
4   All dance one heel-toe step with outside (ML/WR) foot.
5-8   Repeat (a).
9 (b) Polka & pivot: All turn half-way round CW, 1 polka step.
10   Couples turn once round with 2 pivot steps, moving in LOD.
11-16   Repeat (b) 3 times.
Repeat from (a) as desired.

See videos from/with Tingluti 2011; KØST2017 showing demonstration and 3 repetitions; Herlev Gamle Danse 1, 2 2022.

Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Vejle Vesteregn. 5:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1997, p. 12.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-09-22, rev. 2023-08-11.


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