Krokonens vals, Thy


Country of origin: Thy, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: couples in open circle, facing LOD, holding inside hands or waltz hold
Step: totrin (pivot), polka, tyrolertrin (waltz tempo), walk, waltz
Sheet music: (1) after Ejnar Ringgård, Skovsted 1979 in: Jacobsen, Jack & Gitte Thofte/ Thybal - en spillemandsbog. s.l.: Folkekulturværkstedet Broby gamle Skole, 2007. p.96.
(2) 2 version in: Hamborg, Svend/ Beskrivelser & noder til Thydanse [vol.] II. [Thisted] : Thy Spillemandslaug, 1985. (pp. 21-22 of the pdf file).
Recordings: Skårup, Jens et al Thybal track 03.

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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