Country: Mors & Sydthy, Denmark
Formation: 4 couple quadrille. Couples 1 and 2 (head couples) have backs to and face music respectively.
Couples 3 and 4 (side couples) stand to R of couples 1 and 2 respectively.
| Lars Kusks firetur, Sydthy
Steps: vals (waltz), walk Sheet music: (1) 358:371; (2) efter Viggo Post Petersen, Bedsted 1988 in: Jacobsen, Jack & Gitte Thofte/ Thybal - en spillemandsbog. s.l.:Folkekulturværkstedet Broby gamle skole, 2008. p.56. Recordings: Gade, Viggo Rundt om Viggo Gade track B2. Jagd, Steen og Jørgen Jeppesen [YouTube]; Rejseorkesteret Lige ind track B3; Sjøgren, Kim Gamle danske folkedanse track 18; Skaarup, Jens et al Thybal track 09; Skaarup, Karl Harmonikamusik fra Thy track 29 [YouTube]; Thy Spillemandslaug Thetop track B2; Ås Anders orkester från Tierp [YouTube]. |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-8:| | 1 (a) | All couples form closed circle and circle CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Head couples take R-elbow hook with opposite and, beginning with L foot, turn on the spot CW, 8 waltz steps.
Head M finish in place, facing into the set. Head W finish facing out of set, holding R-hand in R with partner. |
| 9-16 | Side couples repeat (b).
Finish with M in place, facing into the set. Side W finish facing out of set, holding R-hand in R with partner and L-in-L hand with corner, in a closed circle. |
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| 17-24 | (c) | All dance 8 waltz steps on the spot without turning, moving side to side, or swinging arms. |
| 17-24 | All dance R-hand chain to first meeting with partner, in opposite place. 8 slow walking steps. | |
| |:25-32:| | (d) | All take waltz hold with partner and dance waltz, turning CW and moving CCW half-way round the set back to place. 8 waltz steps. |
| Parts (b), (c) and (d) are the same in all sequences, except as noted below.
[The following sequences are according to the FFF source. The Jacobsen source suggests the sequences should be as listed in Traditional order of sequences, Thy.] |
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| |:1-8:| | 2 (a) | All take waltz hold with partner and dance CW and CCW on the spot, 16 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 3 (a) | All M take R-hand star and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 4 (a) | All W take R-hand star and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 5 (a) | All take R-hand star and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 6 (a) | All M take front basket hold and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 7 (a) | All W take front basket hold and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 8 (a) | All take front basket hold and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 9 (a) | All M take back basket hold and dance 8 waltz steps CW and 8 waltz steps CCW. |
| |:1-8:| | 10 (a) | All W take back basket hold and dance 8 waltz steps CW and 8 waltz steps CCW. |
| |:1-8:| | 11 (a) | All take back basket hold and dance 8 waltz steps CW and 8 waltz steps CCW. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Suset: Head couples, beginning with a stamp, run towards opposite, take elbow hook hold, and swing opposite
as quickly as fast as possible.
Then run back to original place with partner. |
| 9-16 | Side couples repeat (b). | |
| |:1-8:| | 12 (a) | All couples form closed circle and circle CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Suset: Head couples, beginning with a stamp, run towards opposite, take elbow hook hold, and swing opposite
as quickly as fast as possible.
Then run back to original place with partner. |
| 9-16 | Side couples repeat (b).
[Note: The FFF source maintains that the dance finishes with (12 (d)).] |
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| |:1-8:| | The dance finishes with all taking waltz hold with partner and dancing CW and/or CCW on the spot, 16 waltz steps.
[According to the Jacobsen source.] See videos at/with KØST2017 and YouTube with Karl Skaarup Four without Karl Skaarup, Lystig Svir. Source:
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| Lars Kusks firetur, Mors
Steps: run, vals (waltz), walk Music: (1) 358:480, (2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme Gamle danse fra Mors og Thy. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1985 p. 28. Recordings: Ramsø Spillemandslaug Krammelarve track 16; |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-8:| | 1 (a) | All couples form closed circle and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:17-24:| | (b) | All couples take R-elbow hook with partner and turn on the spot CW, 24 running steps (17-24). Ditto with L-elbow hook turning CCW, 24 running steps (17-24). |
| |:25-32:| | (c) | All dance R-hand chain once round the set, 16 slow walking steps. |
| |:33-40:| | (d) | All take waltz hold with partner and dance waltz, turning CW and moving CCW once round the set. 16 waltz steps. |
| Parts (b), (c) and (d) are the same in all sequences. | ||
| 1-16 | 2 (a) | All take waltz hold with partner and dance CCW around the set, 16 waltz steps. |
| 1-16 | 3 (a) | All take waltz hold with partner and dance CCW around the set, 16 waltz steps. |
| 1-16 | 4 (a) | All W take R-hand star and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 8 waltz steps. |
| 1-16 | 5 (a) | All M take R-hand star and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 8 waltz steps. |
| 1-16 | 6 (a) | All W take front basket hold and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| 1-16 | 7 (a) | All M take front basket hold and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| 1-16 | 8 (a) | All W take back basket hold and dance 8 waltz steps CW and 8 waltz steps CCW. |
| 1-16 | 9 (a) | All M take back basket hold and dance 8 waltz steps CW and 8 waltz steps CCW. |
| 1-16 | 10 (a) | All couples form closed circle and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| 1-16 | The dance finishes with all taking waltz hold with partner and dancing CCW around the set. 16 waltz steps.
See videos from KØST2017 and from YouTube Havnedansen i Roskilde 2015, Krak, Beck & Bugge, 2018 [one set doing version from Thy]. Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme Gamle danse fra Mors og Thy. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1985 pp. 28-29. |
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