Country: Ejby (Roskilde), Sjælland, Denmark
Type: set dance
Formation: 4 couple quadrille. Head couples (couples 1 and 2) respectively have their backs to or face the music. Couple 3 stands on the side to the right of couple 1, and couple 4 faces couple 3. W stands to R of M.
Steps:
chassé (change step),
hurretrin (buzz step), walk
Sheet music: 358:292
Recordings:
Skævingekvarteten Gamle danse fra Sjælland II track 02.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| |:1-8:| | 1 (a) | All couples form closed circle. and dance CW, 16 buzz steps. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Head couples, holding inside hands, advance with 4 walking steps, courtesy on 4th step (9-12). Head couples retire ditto (13-16). |
| 9-10 | Head couples, beginning with R foot, advance individually with 1 chassé step. | |
| 11-12 | Head couples turn 1/2 turn CW around opposite dancer, 2 walking steps. | |
| 13-14 | Head couples turn individually an additional 1/2 turn CW around opposite dancer, so as to finish with backs to original place, 1 chassé step.
During turn around opposite dancer, both are facing each other and close together. |
|
| 15-16 | Head couples retire to place, turning once round CW, 2 walking steps. | |
| |:17-24:| | (c) | Side couples repeat (b). |
| 25-32 | (d) | All dance R-hand chain once round the set. 16 walking steps. |
| Parts (b), (c), and (d) are the same in all sequences. | ||
| |:1-8:| | 2 (a) | All couples, in waltz hold, swing partner on the spot. 16 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 3 (a) | All couples, in waltz hold, swing partner on the spot. 16 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 4 (a) | All couples, in waltz hold, swing partner on the spot. 16 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 5 (a) | All M take 2-hand star as follows: M hold with L-hand as for an L-hand star, and with R-hand take R-thumb hold from underneath, so that each M has his L elbow resting in the R-elbow crook of the M in front.
In this position, all M dance 16 buzz steps CW. Meanwhile, all W clap in time to the music. |
| |:1-8:| | 6 (a) | All repeat (5 (a)). |
| |:1-8:| | 7 (a) | All repeat (5 (a)). |
| |:1-8:| | 8 (a) | All couples form a closed circle with elbow-hook hold (W arms from underneath). 16 buzz steps CW. |
| |:1-8:| | 9 (a) | All repeat (8 (a)). |
| |:1-8:| | The dance finishes with all couples repeating (8 (a)). |
See video from KØST2017.
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/Gamle danse fra Sjælland. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1998, pp. 34-36.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-11-26.
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