Country: Slagelseegnen, Denmark
Type: set dance
Formation: 4 couple quadrille. Couple 1 stands with backs to music, couple 2 faces couple 1, couple 3 stands to R of couple 1, couple 4 faces couple 3.
Steps:
hurretrin (buzz step),
hoptrin (step-hop), run
Sheet music: (1) 358:24,
(2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Tolv danske folkedanse: et udvalg ved Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme.
Kolding: Konrad Jørgensens Bogtrykkeri, 1920. pp.18-19.
(3) 'contra-dance (from Slagelse)' in: Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing
seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. pp. 72-73.
Recordings:
De lystige spillemænd fra Slagelse 1983 [YouTube];
Lauritz Hansens Spillemandsorkester [Internet Archive];
Michael Herman's Folk Orchestra [Internet Archive].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-8:| | 1 (a) | Circle: In closed circle, all dance twice round CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Arches: M1 and M2 take R elbow hook and dance twice round, in the centre of the set, 8 step-hops.
W1 and W2 turn L side to centre of set. M1 and M2 stop in front of partner, and form an arch with partner (ML in WL hand). |
| 9-16 | Couples 3 and 4, holding inside hands and with W leading, dance CCW under both arches to return to place, 16 running steps.
When couples 3 and 4 are back in place, M1 and M2 return to place. |
|
| |:17-24:| | Couples 3 and 4 repeat (b), with couples 1 and 2 circling CCW under the arches. | |
| |:25-32:| | (c) | Chain: All dance R-hand chain around the set to return to place, 16 step-hops.` |
| Parts (b) and (c) are the same in all sequences. | ||
| |:1-8:| | 2 (a) | Swing: Couples take waltz hold and turn on the spot, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 3 (a) | Swing: Couples take waltz hold and turn on the spot, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 4 (a) | Swing: Couples take waltz hold and turn on the spot, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 5 (a) | W one-hand star: All W form R-hand star [L hand on upper arm of W in front], and dance CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 6 (a) | M one-hand star: All M form R-hand star [L hand on upper arm of M in front], and dance CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 7 (a) | W two-hand star: All W form 2-hand star, and dance CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 8 (a) | M two-hand star: All M form 2-hand star, and dance CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 9 (a) | W back basket: All W form back basket, and dance CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 10 (a) | M back basket: All M form back basket, and dance CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 11 (a) | Circle: All form closed circle, and dance CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 12 (a) | All back basket: All form back basket, W hands on Ms shoulders, M hands around Ws waists, and dance CW, 32 buzz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | Swing: The dance finishes with swing partner on the spot, 32 buzz steps. |
See videos from KØST2017 and on YouTube from/with Folkedanserbal i Roskilde 2016,
Source:
Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Beskrivelse af gamle Danske folkedanse hefte II.
6:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1995, pp. 10-11.
See also:
-- Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Tolv danske folkedanse: et udvalg ved Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme.
Kolding: Konrad Jørgensens Bogtrykkeri, 1920. pp.18-19.
-- 'contra dance I' in: Hanson, Lida Saboni & Laura Wolcott Goldsmith (trans.)/
Old Danish folk dances described by the Association for the Promotion of Folk Dances (Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme). -[ first part].
Copenhagen: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1906. pp. 18-19.
-- 'contra-dance (from Slagelse)' in: Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing
seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. pp. 72-73.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-05-19, rev. 2022-02-15.
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