Country: Hadsundegnen, Himmerland, Denmark
Type: set dance
Formation: 4 couple quadrille. Head couples (couples 1 and 2) respectively have their backs to or face the music.
Side couples: 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:
reeltrin (jig step),
hoptrin (step-hop),
vals (waltz), run
Sheet music: (1) 358:248,
(2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme/ Gamle danse fra Randersegnen. 4 opl.
København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1997, pp. 30-31.
(3) 'Kristen Gad's four-dance' in: Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing
seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p. 28.
Recordings:
Den Fynske Spillemandskvartet Så danser vi til Den Fynske Spillemandskvartet track B2;
Spillemændene fra Himmerland Liegstouw track B7.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| |:1-4:| | 1 (a) | Circle: All form closed circle, and circle CW, 16 running steps. Ditto CCW, 16 running steps. |
| 5-8 | (b) | Jig steps: All turn to partner and, beginning hopping on MR/WL foot, dance 8 jig steps. |
| 5-8 | With a stamp, all turn away from partner to face corner, and dance 8 jig steps. | |
| |;9-12:| | (c) | Chain: All clap own hands, take R-elbow hook with corner, and turn once round on the spot, 2 step-hops.
Continue in a standard chain, giving L-hand to next oncoming dancer, then R-hand, etc., once round the set, 14 step-hops. During bars 9-10, all sing "Åh Malene, åh Malene". |
| |;13-20:| | (d) | Waltz: In waltz hold with partner, all dance turning waltz around the set. 16 waltz steps. |
| Parts (b), (c) and (d) are the same in all sequences. | ||
| |:1-4:| | 2 (a) | Two-hand hold: All take two-hand hold with partner and turn CW on the spot, 16 running steps. Ditto CCW, 16 running steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 3 (a) | W one-hand star: All W form R-hand star and circle CW, 16 running steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 16 running steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 4 (a) | M one-hand star: All W form R-hand star and circle CW, 16 running steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 16 running steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 5 (a) | W two-hand star: All W form two-hand star [front basket] and circle CW, 16 running steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 16 running steps. |
| |:1-4:| | 6 (a) | M two-hand star: All W form two-hand star [front basket] and circle CW, 16 running steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 16 running steps. |
| |:1-4:| | Circle: The dance finishes with closed circle, and circling CW, 16 running steps. Ditto CCW, 16 running steps.
The dance has also been done with 5 couples, in which case the chain in part (c) is danced only to first meeting with own partner, ie. half-way round the set. |
See video from KØST2017 (with 5 couples), and YouTube videos with Knud med venner 2016, Rebild Spillemændene 2016
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme/ Gamle danse fra Randersegnen. 4 opl.
København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1997, pp. 30-31.
See also:
-- Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Beskrivelse af gamle danske folkedanse hefte III.
5th ed. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1983, p. 21.
-- Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Tolv danske folkedanse: et udvalg ved Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme.
Kolding: Konrad Jørgensens Bogtrykkeri, 1920. p.20.
-- 'Kristen Gad's four-dance' in: Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing
seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p. 28.
-- Bryans, Helen L. and John Madsen Scandinavian dances. Book II. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co. Ltd., 1942. p. 6.
-- Den Fynske Spillemandskvartet Så danser vi til Den Fynske Spillemandskvartet: dansebeskrivelser til DFS 4.
s.l.: Danske Folkedanseres Spillemandskreds, 1980. pp. 25-28. [in Danish, English, German]
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2022-02-14.
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