Country: Århus-Skanderborg & Låsby-Galten, Denmark
Type: couple dance
| Kyvling Sørens styk, Århus-Skanderborg
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, waltz or polska hold. Steps: hoptrin (step-hop) Sheet music: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ II: 265 gamle folkedanse fra forskellige egne. 3:e opl. Kolding:s.n., 2005 p.26. Music: 2/4 time, 𝅗𝅥=88. |
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| Bars | Dance progression |
| 1-2 | Man's step: Moving slightly forward in LOD, hop 3 times on inside (MR) foot. On 1st hop touch L toe behind, and on the next 2 hops touch toe forwards. The rhythm is hop-hop-hop-pause. |
| 3-4 | Continuing to move forward in LOD, hop 3 times on outnside (ML) foot. On 1st hop touch R toe behind, and
on the next 2 hops touch toe forwards. The rhythm is hop-hop-hop-pause.
Woman dances as above but with opposite footwork. |
| 5-8,1-8,|:9-12:|,|:13-20:| | Repeat as desired.
Provenance: Legend has it that Kyvling Søren was imitating a lame tailor with whom he was angry, because he had
snitched on Søren. Documented by Århus med Omegnens Folkedansere in the 1930s based on information from
Peder Jørgensen, a wooden clog maker from Stilling.
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| Kywling Søren's stykke, Låsby-Galten
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, open waist-shoulder hold. Steps: chassé (change step), hoptrin (step-hop) Sheet music: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ II: 265 gamle folkedanse fra forskellige egne. 3:e opl. Kolding:s.n., 2005 p.36. Music: 2/4 time, 𝅗𝅥=100. |
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| Bars | Dance progression |
| 1-2 | Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couple dances forward in LOD with one chassé step (M: L R L; W: R L R). |
| 3 | Both turn with a hop on inside (MR/WL) foot while swinging outside (ML/WR) foot back. |
| 4 | Both turn with a hop on inside (MR/WL) foot while swinging outside (ML/WR) foot forward. |
| 5-8,1-8,|:9-16:| | Repeat as desired.
Provenance: documented based on information from a number of elderly informants in the Låsby area around 1900-1910.
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