Country: Himmerland, Denmark
Type: mixer
Formation: any number of couples in closed circle.
Steps:
chassé or walk,
polka,
sideløbstrin (slip step). Walking steps are small, light and quick, almost running.
Sheet music: 358:141, with ♩=120.
Recordings:
Hvalsø Spillemændene Kom ind track A2;
Lang Linken Liv track 04;
Lang Linken on YouTube;
Musikdirektør Rasmussens Balorkester Ungtrad live cd 1 track 11;
Rebild Spillemændene Himmerlandsbal track B2;
Rebild Spillemændene Himmerlandsbal II track 05;
Sand på gulvet Fjerde juledag track 03;
Skalmeje Sving om track A1.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | All circle CW with 16 bouncy slip steps.
[If there are several circles nested within each other, circles may dance in opposite directions.] |
| 1-8 | All circle CCW with 16 slip steps. | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | All dance R-hand chain, beginning with own partner. 16 chassé steps.
Stop when giving R-in-R hand to [15th] oncoming dancer. |
| |:17-24:| | (c) | All take waltz hold with new partner and dance polka, moving in LOD. 16 polka steps. |
| Repeat from (a) as desired. |
Source:
Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/Gamle Himmerlands-danse. 4th ed. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1978, p. 34.
See also:
an article by Leif Varmark in Dagbladet Information, 15.7.1977 which maintains
it is gammeldans (old time dance) tradition in Himmerland that hamborg sekstur and polka sekstur are always played one after the other in that order.
[in Danish].
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2013-02-21, rev. 2021-04-26
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