Country: Hindsholm, Fyn, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: couples ("as many as will") in open circle, waltz hold.
Steps: polka
Sheet music:
(1) Aabech, Tage "1/2-12" in: Liv i lauget 83 April 1994.
A variant of the same music as
Halv tolv, Vrøgum and
Æ skudstrupper/galopin fra Rødding
(2) 'hjørneskotsk fra Salling' 358:260
Recordings:
Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
1 | (a) | With a small hop M crosses outside (L) foot in front of R foot and dances a small polka step, as the couple turns 1/2 turn CW. Meanwhile W does the same but with opposite footwork, ie beginning with R foot. |
2 | Repeat, with opposite footwork. | |
3-4 | Repeat (a). | |
5-8, 1-8 | Repeat (a) twelve times. | |
|:9-12:| | (b) | Couples dance turning polka. |
Repeat from (a) as desired. |
Sources:
-- Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Beskrivelse af gamle danske folke danse hefte III. 5:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1983, p.6.
-- Aabech, Tage "1/2-12" in: Liv i lauget 83, April 1994.
-- Burchenal, Elizabeth Folk-dances of Denmark; containing seventy-three dances.
New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p.3.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-12-06.
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