Jægermarch, Avernakø, Møn, & Roskilde

Country: Avernakø, Møn, Roskilde, Denmark

    Jægermarch, Avernakø
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in an open circle, waltz hold.
Steps: chassé (change step), hopsa
Sheet music: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Avernakø og Korshavn. 1 udg. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 2001, p. 30.
Recordings:
Bars Part Dance progression:
1-4   Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance 1 chassé step forward in LOD (1-2). Ditto in RLOD (3-4).
5-8   Couples turn twice round CW, 4 hopsa steps.
9-32   Couples repeat above 3 times.
    Repeat as desired.

Provenance: Documented by Viggo Hertel in 1909, and both Viggo Hertel and H.C. Michelsen in 1911. The tune is after Ole Chr. Rasmussen.

Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Avernakø og Korshavn. 1 udg. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 2001, pp. 30-31.

   
    Jægermarch, Møn
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in an open circle, waltz hold.
Steps: hoptrin (step-hop), sidegangstrin (side-step)
Sheet music: (1) 358:484, (2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Møn. 4 opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1997, p. 7.
Bars Part Dance progression:
1-2   Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance 2 side-steps forward in LOD (M; L R L R; W: R L R L).
3   Couples dance 1 side-step back in RLOD (M; R L; W: L R).
4   Couples dance 1 side-step forward in LOD (M; L R; W: R L).
5-6   Couples dance 2 side-steps back in RLOD (M; R L R L; W: L R L R).
7-8   Couples turn CW, and moving in LOD, 2 step-hops.
9-16,|:17-32:|   Couples repeat from the beginning 5 times.
Repeat from beginning as desired.

See YouTube video from Duo Visti med venner, 2017

Provenance: tune known in Sweden originally as 'Längtan till landet', but now commonly known as 'Vintern rasat ut'. The music was composed by Otto Lindblad (1809 – 1864), first published in 1838; Swedish lyrics by Herman Sätherberg (1812 – 1897). In Sweden, it is traditionally a spring song, sung at Walpurgis Eve festivities, usually by a men's or a student choir.

Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Møn. 4 opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1997, pp. 7-8.

   
    Jægermarch, Roskildeegnen
Type: mixer
Formation: any number of couples in an open circle, facing LOD, arm in arm.
Steps: gangtrin (walk), valsetrin (waltz)
Sheet music: (1) 358:379, (2) Team Bornholm, arr: B. L./kt, (3) Svenska Undomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Musik till gillesdanser i Norden - fiol. [Stockholm: Svenska Undomsringen för Bygdekultur], 1970. p. 10.
Recordings: Gunnar Hahn's Folkdance Ensemble 1997 Skandia tracks 22-26; Gunnar Hahn's Folkdance Ensemble 1989 Skandia track 20; Gunnar Hahn's Folkdansorkester 1962 Scandia - folkdanser från Norden track 08 [Internet Archive];
Bars Part Dance progression:
1-8 (a) Promenade: Arm in arm, couples walk CCW around the set. 16 walking steps.
1-8   Couples drop hold. W turn to L and walk CW in an outside ring around the set. M continue CCW in an inner ring, clapping with each step. After 14 walking steps M and W turn to a new partner and curtsey/bow, and take waltz hold.
|:9-24:| (b) Waltz: Couples, in waltz hold with new partner, dance turning waltz, 32 waltz steps.
9-16,|:17-32:|   Repeat from (a), beginning with current partner, as desired.

See YouTube video from Dansefestival Bornholm 2019.

Provenance: also occurs in numerous locations in Austria (music (mp3) & videos clip431, clip282), Germany, Romania and Sweden. [see Dancilla].

Source: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ I: 55 gamle folkedanse fra forskellige egne samlet og bearbejdet af Pia & Per Sørensen. 5:e opl. [Kolding]: Eget forlag, [2003]. p. 8.
See also:
-- Jägermarsch [in German]
-- Acla Jägaredans [in Swedish]
-- Skandia Music Foundation Jägaremarsch 1997
-- Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Samkväms och gillesdanser. Stockholm: Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur, 1965. p. 31. [in Swedish]
-- Svenska Undomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Beskrivning av gillesdanser i Norden. [Stockholm]: Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur, 1970. p. 39.


Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-07-07, rev. 2022-10-05.


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