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 etc from the top of the set.
Steps:
balancé,
chassé (change-step)
Sheet music: no. 35
Recordings: Pørtners Komplot Reventlow track 09 [YouTube];
Rannok Gammelt, nyt, lånt og blåt track 05.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | W1 dances CW around M2, then CW outside M1 to return to place. 8 chassé steps. |
| 1-8 | M1 dances CW around W2, then CW outside W1 to return to place. 8 chassé steps. | |
| 9-16 | (b) | 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 below couple 2, ie finishing 2-1-3. 8 chassé steps. |
| 9-16 | M2 and M1 holding inside hands, and similarly W2 and W1, advance with 3 chassé steps (9-11), dance 2 balancé steps (12-13), and retire 3 chassé steps (14-16). [This is my interpretation of the rightmost diagram box.] | |
| 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 choreography in the form of diagrams and/or 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.]
Printed source: Reventlow, E. nodebog ms., 1799.
Description: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2021-02-19, rev. 2021-10-08.
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