Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
|:1-8:| | (a) | All dance tyrolerwaltz [4 bars tyrolertrin + 4 bars turning waltz, or regular turning waltz]. 16 waltz steps. |
9-12 | (b) | Hop twice on inside foot [MR/WL] while swinging the outside (ML/WR) foot back and forward (9). One polka step turning half-way round [CW] (10).
Repeat with opposite footwork (11-12).
[Hamborg describes this as straightening and then bending the free leg, followed by a polka step.] |
9-12 | Repeat (b). | |
|:13-16:| | (c) | All dance [4] walking steps (13-14) followed by [4] pivot steps (15-16), moving in LOD.
Repeat (c). [Hamborg has this repeating 4 times in total.] |
Repeat from (a) as desired. |
See YouTube videos with Mesterdansere i Nordthy, optaget i 1980-1990 (at 4:40), Heebøl og Vinther, Karl Skaarup Four, Laura Andersen instruerar
Provenance: Hamborg maintains that this dance was almost forgotten on Thy, but that Ejnar Ringgård from Hillerslev remembered it, and now it is danced frequently.
Traditionally danced as part of a sequence (De tre fra Thy): Bette Mett',
Æ russer and
Krokonens vals.
Printed sources:
-- Jacobsen, Jack & Gitte Thofte/ Thybal - en spillemandsbog. s.l.: Folkekulturværkstedet Broby gamle Skole, 2007. p.94
-- Hamborg, Svend/
Beskrivelser & noder til Thydanse [vol.] II. [Thisted] : Thy Spillemandslaug, 1985. (pp. 4, 21-22 of the pdf file).
Description: Laine Ruus, Oakville 2020-03-06, rev. 2021-12-06.
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