Country: Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: couples in open circle, front crossed hold, arms straight and leaning body back. Throughout, couples face partner.
Steps:
polka,
svejtrin (pivot)
Sheet music: (1) 358:478;
(2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Mors og Thy. 4 opl.
København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1985, p. 12.
Recordings: [any moderately fast polka, e.g.
de Fries & D. Beck På livets vej track 02;
Lydom & Bugge Gangspil 2 cd 2 track 01;
Sand, Kirstine Det dansende par track 01;
Skævingekvarteten Gamle danse fra Sjælland 1 track 03;
Vilsen, Madvig Traditionel musik fra Læsø track 37.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | Polka: Couples, in waltz hold, dance turning polka moving in LOD (CCW around the floor). 8 polka steps. |
| |:9-12:| | (b) | Totrin: Couples dance 16 pivot steps, turning CW and moving in LOD (CCW around the floor).
[Repeat from (a) as desired.] |
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Mors og Thy. 4 opl.
København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1985, p. 12.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-12-01, rev. 2022-12-04.
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