Country: Denmark(?)
Type: mixer
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, waltz hold, facing LOD..
Steps:
hæl og tå (heel-toe);
sideløbstrin (slip steps);
hoptrin (step-hop)
Sheet music:
[any 2/4 time music, eg polka or reel, with appropriate structure and tempo].
Recordings:
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-2 | (a) | Heel-toe & slip steps: Begining with weight on inside (MR/WL) foot, couples dance 2 heel-toe steps with outside (ML/WR) foot. |
| 3-4 | Couples dance 4 slip steps, moving in LOD. | |
| 1-4 | Couples repeat (a), moving in RLOD. Ie, dancing heel-toe steps with inside (MR/WL) foot, and slip steps in RLOD.
Finish dropping hold, forming double circle, M facing out of circle, W facing in. |
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| 5-8 | (b) | Clap sequence & progress: Couples clap hands 3 times (5), then partner's R with own R hand 3 times (6), partner's L with own L hand 3 times (7), and finally both partner's hands [or own thighs] with own hands (8). |
| 5-8 | Couple take R-elbow hook with partner, and turn on the spot, step-hops.
On the last step[s}, M & W progress to next oncoming dancer (=new partner), M moving CW, W moving CCW around the set.
Repeat from (a) as desired. |
Provenance: unknown at time of writing.
See video from/with Herlev Gamle Danse 2022
Source: video from/with Herlev Gamle Danse 2022
Description: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2023-08-17.
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