Country: Lolland-Falster, Denmark
Type: circle [or mixer]
Formation: any number of couples in an open circle. [Best with 8 couples]
Steps: menuet
Sheet music: 358:171
Recordings:
Baltic Crossing The tune machine track 05;
Baltinget Classic track 09.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | Without holding hands, all advance towards centre of the circle with 1 menuet step (1-2), and retire to place with 1 menuet step (3-4). |
| 5-8 | Repeat | |
| 1-8 | Holding R-in-R with partner, circle once round CW with 4 menuet steps, finishing in place | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | All dance R-hand chain, without giving hands, W moving CW, M moving CCW in the circle.
Pass partner on the L with 1 menuet step, finishing facing next oncoming dancer [whom one passes on the R]. Continue in a zig-zag pattern, passing each oncoming dancer with one full menuet step and finishing in the circle. Dance each menuet step by stepping forward on R to the 'point' of the zig or zag, turn a 1/4 turn and complete the step to finish in the circle again. Continue the chain until you meet your partner for the first time. When you have met your partner, all form a closed circle, and swing joined arms lightly forward then back in time to the music until the music is finished. |
| Repeat from (a) if desired.
Note: the progression of the dance is dependant on (a) the number of bars of music, and (b) the number of couples dancing. It may occur that there is no time to stand in a closed circle and swing arms, or a great deal of time may be spent standing in the circle and swinging arms. |
See video frum KØST2017
Provenance: the dance was originally documented by Johannes Egedal in 1917, based on a description provided by Karen Suder, Fiskebæk near Marrebæk,
and submitted by Rasmus and Karen Toxværd, Væggerløse.
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Lolland-Falster. 2nd. ed., 1996 pp.81-82.
See also: Skov, Ole "Menuetten på Falster,
-1,
-2" in
Dansens og musikkens rødder nr 23 & 24, Jan & Feb. 1998.
Translation: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2021-08-10.
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