Country: Denmark
Type: set dance
Formation: longways progressive set, M to the R and W to the L as seen from the music, numbered 1-2-3-1 etc from the top of the set.
Steps:
chassé (change-step)
Sheet music: no. 1
Recordings: Floating Sofa Quartet Neighbourhood track 06.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | Couples 1 and 2 change places with partners, couple 1 passing L shoulders and couple 2 passing R shoulders, 4 chassé steps. |
| 1-4 | M1 and W2 change places [giving R hands], 4 chassé steps.
Simultaneously, M2 and W1 change places [giving R hands], 4 chassé steps. Finish in the order 2-1-3. |
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| 5-8 | (b) | Couple 1 casts up and around couple 2 and returns to original place, 4 chassé steps.
Meanwhile couple 2 turns, individually, and casts down to between couples 1 and 3, 4 chassé steps.
Finish in the order 1-2-3. |
| 5-8 | Couple 1 crosses, dances a half figure-8 around couple 2 (M1 dancing CW around W2, then CCW around M2; W1 dancing CCW around M2,
then CW around W2) and finish on own side between couples 2 and 3, ie finishing 2-1-3. 8 chassé steps.
Finish in the order 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, 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 recorded choreography in the form of diagrams and/or descriptive text.
[Translator's note: chassé steps are specifically mentioned in the text accompanying the diagrams of the figures.]
Printed source: Reventlow, E. nodebog ms., 1799.
Description: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2021-09-28.
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