Country: Denmark
Type: longways progressive set dance
Formation: longways set, M to the R and W to the L as seen from the music, numbered 1-2 etc from the top of the set.
Steps:
chassé (change-step)
Sheet music: no. 12
Recordings: Pørtners Komplot Reventlow track 04 [YouTube].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | W dos-à-dos: W1 and W2 dance dos-à-dos CCW around their respective partners and return to place. 8 chassé steps. |
| 1-8 | M dos-à-dos: M1 and M2 dance dos-à-dos CW around their respective partners and return to place. 8 chassé steps. | |
| 9-16 | (b) | Cross, cast down, half-8: Couple 1 crosses, casts down, and dances a half figure-8 around couple 2. Ie, M1 dances CW around W2,
then CCW around M2; W1 dances CCW around M2, then CW around W2. 8 chassé steps. Couple 2 steps up on bars (11-12).
Couple 1 finishes on own side below couple 2, ie couples finish in order 2-1. |
| 9-16 | Chain: Couples 1 and 2 dance R-hand chain, beginning with R-hand to partner, and finish 2-1. 8 chassé steps. | |
| Repeat from (a) as desired.
[When the dance repeats (from (a)), couple 1 dances with the next oncoming couple 2, while first couple 2 rests. In the following repeat, couple 1 dances with the third couple 2, while first couple 2 (now a couple 1) dances with the second couple. Ie couple 1s procede down the set towards bottom, where they become couple 2s; couple 2s procede up the set towards top, where they become couple 1s. If many couples are dancing, every 2nd couple may start.] |
Provenance:
From a musician's notebook from Lolland-Falster, Denmark. The book belonged to an E. Reventlow, and has been dated to 1799. The original manuscript,
(DFS 1906/036 A:006) is part of Dansk Folkemindesamling.
The manuscript contains sheet music for 168 tunes, with choreography in the form of diagrams and/or brief descriptive text.
[Translator's note: although no information about steps is given, the accompanying sheet music is 4/4-time, wherefore the translator suggests the dance
be done with chassé steps. The above represents my attempt to reconstruct the dance. Other interpretations are possible.]
Printed source: Reventlow, E. [Nodebog] ms., 1799.
Description: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2021-03-03, rev. 2022-09-06.
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