Hopgesvejs/Hopimellem, Hindsholm

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:

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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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