| Ruder es, Himmerland {I}
Formation and hold: Open circle of couples, waltz hold. Steps: sideløbstrin (slip step), totrin (pivot step), løbetrin (run) Sheet music: (1) 358:22 (2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Old Danish folk dances. trans. by Finn Dyhr. Copenhagen: Association for the promotion of folk dances (Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme), 1960. p.14. (3) Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p. 85. Recordings: Råbergs Spillemandskvartet Gammeldavsaften track B5. |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-2 | (a) | Side-steps & arms up-down: Couples dance 4 slow sideløbstrin forward in LOD. |
| 3-4 | Couples stop, and in time to the music, raise, lower, and raise ML/WR arms with small movememts. | |
| 1-4 | Repeat (a). | |
| 5-8 | (b) | Arms side-to-side & pivot: Couples take 2-hand hold, arms bent, and hands at chest height. Swing arms, with small movements,
backwards-forwards-backwards-forwards (5-6).
Couples take closed waist-shoulder hold and dance in LOD with 4 pivot steps (7-8). |
| 9-12 | Repeat (b). | |
| Repeat from (a) as desired.
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Beskrivelse af gamle Danske folkedanse hefte II.
6:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1995, p. 7.
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| Ruder es, Himmerland {II}
Formation and hold: Open double circle of couples, M facing out of circle, W facing in. Hands on hips. Steps: sideløbstrin (slip steps), totrin (pivot steps), løbetrin (run) Sheet music: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ VI: 27 gamle folkedanse fra Jylland. [Kolding]: Pia & Per Sørensen, [2000] p.24. Recordings: |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-2 | (a) | Side-steps & sway: Couples dance 4 slow sideløbstrin to own R (ie away from partner). |
| 3-4 | Stand still and bend from the waist to R, to L, and straighten up. | |
| 5-8 | Repeat (a), moving to own L. | |
| 9-16 | (b) | Pivot: Couples take closed waist-shoulder hold and dance, on the spot, 16 pivot steps.. |
| Repeat from (a) as desired.
Provenance: the dance was documented by Christian Olsen (1881-1968), 'Torpelund', Eskebjerg near Kalundborg. He wrote that
they had learned the dance from Mrs. Thit Jensen. Thit Jensen (1876-1957), the author, was born in Himmerland, and
sister to the author Johannes V. Jensen, who among other things provided the information about the dance 'Sisken' from
Himmerland.
Source: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ VI: 27 gamle folkedanse fra Jylland. [Kolding]: Pia & Per Sørensen, [2000] pp.24-25. |
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| Ruder es, Mors
Formation and hold: Open double circle of couples, waltz hold. Steps: sideløbstrin (slip step), totrin (pivot step) Sheet music: (1) 358:172, (2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Mors og Thy. 4 opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1985, p.6. Recordings: |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | Side-steps & sway: Couples dance 4 sideløbstrin forward in LOD. |
| 5-8 | Couples bend, from the waist, backwards, forwards, and straighten up. | |
| 9-16 | Repeat (a).
(Bends are in RLOD and LOD.) [sic] |
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| 17-20 | (b) | Tyrolersvejtrit: Couples take 2-hand hold and, beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot,dance 4 small walking steps on the
spot (17-18), while moving joined hand forward and back, in a rocking motion.
Couples take waltz hold, and turn CW with 4 pivot steps. [Take the first pivot step on fourth step (18:2) to facilitate getting around.] |
| 21-24, 17-24 | Repeat (b) 3 times. | |
| 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, pp. 6-7. |
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| Rits-rats aka Ruder es, Randers & Skanderborgegnen, Østjylland
Formation and hold: Couples facing partner, open circle, M facing in LOD, W in RLOD. Steps: hoptrin (step-hop), polka, sideløbstrin (slip step), løbetrin (run) Sheet music: (1) 358:404 from Randersegnen, (2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Tolv danske folkedanse: et udvalg ved Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme. Kolding: Konrad Jørgensens Bogtrykkeri, 1920. p.9. (3) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Folkedanse for børn. 4 opl. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1967. pp.8-9. (4) Bidstrup, Georg/ 'ace of diamonds, Randers' in: Singing games and folk dances. Brasstown NC: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1941. P.40. (5) Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p. 38. [A variant of the tune for hjerter to fra Nordfyn] Recordings: Fernandos Orkester 'ruder es + skomagerstykket + fingerpolka' Gamle folkedanse potpourri [Internet Archive]; Gellin & Borgstrøms Nyheds Kvintet [Internet Archive]; Gunnar Nyborg-Jensen med piger og drenge & Mogens Kildes Spillemænd [Internet Archive]; Harald Mortensens Orkester med Statsradiofoniens Pigekor Til Børnebal hos Onkel Harald (Tono SP 4435,1945) [YouTube]; Henry Hansens Spillemandskvartet [Internet Archive]; Henry Hansens Spillemandsorkester Vild med gammeldaws dans vol 2 track 23 [YouTube]; Kai Julians Danse Orkester 'Potpourri' I Kongens Klæ'r (1931) [YouTube]; Kom! Lad os danse tracks 4 (slow) and 7, Lars Stryg Band Børnenes sangskat - sanglege track 07 [YouTube]; National Folk Dance Players European National Folk Dances, Vol. 2: Czechoslovakia, France, Holland, Serbia, Germany, Denmark and Sweden [YouTube]; Puls track 16; Råbergs Spillemandskvartet Gammeldavsaften track B5; Square Dansk Square Dansk & Les Lanciers track 03; Tivolis Promenadorkester Gamle folkedanse. 1 Del. [Internet Archive]. |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | Clap & elbow hook turn: With a clap on beat 1:1, partners take R-elbow hook and turn CW on the spot, 8 running steps (1-4).
Ditto CCW with L-elbow hook (5-8). |
| 9-16 | W dances backwards in LOD, followed by partner, 8 step-hops.
[Bidstrup describes this as 'spil med guldæbler' ('golden apples')] |
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| |:17-24:| | (b) | Polka: All take waltz hold with partner, and dance turning polka, moving in LOD. |
| Repeat from (a) as desired.
Danish lyrics:
See video from/with KØST2017. Provenance: In Denmark the tune is also known in Roskilde on Sjælland, and on Bornholm. Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Beskrivelse af gamle danske folkedanse hefte I.
7:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1976, p.6.
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Provenance:
Source of the variant in the following Danish videos is uncertain:
Danish group from Jylland 2011;
Herlev Gamle Danse 2022;. However, they bear strong similarity to the simplified Swedish version of
Ritsch ratsch devised by Inez Mallander and
described in Mallander (see below, p.136).
Variants occur throughout many of the Nordic countries, including:
'Ruder es' aka 'rits rats' [Denmark],
'klip klap' [Faroe Islands],
ruutuässä [Finland],
klappdans [Iceland], and
'ritsj ratsj' aka 'Fru Cederstrøm' [Norway], and
'ritsch ratsch' aka 'Fru Söderström' [Sweden].
[Urup, et al, pp. 262-263.]
See:
-- Mallander, Inez/ Sånglekar och sångdanser. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1955. pp. 135-136. [in Swedish]
-- Urup, Henning, Henry Sjöberg, Egil Bakka (eds.)/ Gammaldans i Norden. Rapport frå forskningsprosjektet.
Komparativ analyse av ein folkeleg dansegenre i utvalde nordiske lokalsamfunn. Oslo: Nordisk forening for folkedansforskning, 1988. pp. 262-263.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2019-05-20, rev. 2023-08-23.
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