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 1-2-3 etc from the music (top of the set).
Steps:
pas de bourrée or chassé (change-step)
Sheet music: no. 15
Recordings: Baltinget Alive track 12 [YouTube] (at 1:16).
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | One-hand star: Couples 1 and 2 form R-hand star and dance CW. 4 chassé steps. Ditto CCW in L-hand star, 4 chassé steps. |
| 1-8 | Dos-à-dos: Couples 1 and 2 dance dos-à-dos around respective partners and return to place. 8 chassé steps.
Note: the diagram in the source indicates what is interpreted as a dos-à-dos, with 2 interlocking triangles, with their bases at the two lines of dancers. We have therefore danced these with 1 chassé to the L, 3 chassés diagonally forward R past partner (passing R shoulders), 3 chassés diagonally backward to R passing partner by L shoulder, and finally 1 chassé (or side-step) to L to finish in original position. |
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| 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).
Finish on own side below couple 2, ie finishing 2-1-3. |
| 9-16 | Chain: Couples 1 and 2 dance R-hand chain, 8 chassé steps.
Finish on own side below couple 2, ie finishing 2-1-3. |
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| Repeat from (a) as desired.
[When the dance repeats (from (a)), couple 1 dances with couple 3, while couple 2 rests. In the following repeat, couple 1 dances with couple 4, while couple 2 dances with couple 3. If many couples are dancing, all couples may start, odd-numbered couples dancing as couple 1 above, even-numbered couples dancing as couple 2.] |
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 descriptive text.
[Translator's notes: (1) although no information about steps is given, the accompanying sheet music is 2/4-time, wherefore the translator suggests the dance
be done with pas de bourrée or chassé steps. (2) This is my interpretation of the source diagram. Other
interpretations are possible.]
Printed source: Reventlow, E. nodebog ms., 1799.
Description: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2021-03-03, rev. 2022-09-20.
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