Country: Horsensegnen, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in an open circle facing partner, M backs to centre, W facing into centre.
Steps: polka
Sheet music: (1) 358:403,
(2) Bestefars nodebog skomagerpolka,
(3) Bestefars nodebog skomagerstykket.
Recordings:
Bacher, Hans et al (1933) [Internet Archive];
Fagtesangbogen vol. 2 [YouTube];
Fernandos Orkester 'ruder es + skomagerstykket + fingerpolka' Gamle folkedanse potpourri [Internet Archive];
Four Times 'shoemaker's dance' [Internet Archive];
Gellin og Borgstrøms Nyheds Kvintet [Internet Archive];
Harald Mortensens Orkester Til børnebal hos Onkel Harald [YouTube];
Henry Hansens Spillemandskvartet 1955 'skomagerstykket + fingerpolka + Lottes død' [Internet Archive];
Henry Hansens Spillemandskvartet Les lanciers track B3;
Henry Hansens Spillemandsorkester Vild med gammeldaws dans 2 track 22;
Jacobsen, Finn & Peter Hougaard Kom! lad os danse tracks 03 (slow) & 06;
Lars Stryg Band Børnenes sangskat - sanglege track 04 [YouTube];
Lars Stryg Band Børnenes sangskat vol.18 [YouTube];
Lars Stryg Band Børnenes sangskat vol.18 - Børnenes bedste sanglege [YouTube];
Mogensen, Grete & Dragørbørnene I synge-legeland 5 [YouTube];
Nyborg-Jensen, Gunnar med piger og drenge & Mogens Kildes Spillemænd [Internet Archive];
Pelimannikilta Seuratansseja 2 track 17;
Polyphon Danse Orkester [Internet Archive];
Polyphon Danse Orkester (1931) [Internet Archive];
Puls track 16;
RCA Victor Folk Dance Orchestra 'shoemaker's dance' [Internet Archive];
Square Dansk Square Dansk & Les lanciers track 02;
Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur Gillesdanser i norden - Danska track B3;
Vilsen, Levy Traditionel musik fra Læsø track 14;
Victor Band 1912 'shoemaker's dance' [Internet Archive];
Victor Orchestra 1927 'shoemaker's dance' [Internet Archive];
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1 | (a) | Figuré: M and W make fists, held at chest level, one in front of the other. Rotate fists quickly around each other, inner hand up, out, down and in, and outer hand down, in, up and out. Finish with pointing R forefinger out and up: "the thread is rolled up and pulled out". |
| 2 | Repeat, rotating in opposite direction, and finishing with pointing L forefinger out and up. | |
| 3 | Jerk elbows backwards twice, while raising R knee: "the thread is tightened". | |
| 4 | M and W clap hands 3 times. | |
| 1-4 | Repeat (a). | |
| |:5-8:| | (b) | Polka: Take waltz hold with partner, and starting with ML/WR foot, dance 8 polka steps moving in LOD. |
| Repeat fom (a) as desired. | ||
| Lyrics
|:Først den ene vej og så den anden vej og tju, og tju og skomar'dreng:| |:Skomar'drengen er et svin, for han drikker brændevin:| Translation |:First we spin it one way, and then the other way and tju, and tju and cobbler's apprentice:| |:The cobbler's apprentice is a swine because he drinks brandy:| |
See YouTube videos with Jydsk på Næsen, Syng med Sigurd.
Source:
Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Beskrivelse af gamle danske folkedanse hefte I. 7th ed. København; Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1976, p. 5.
See also:
-- 'shoemakers dance' in: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Danish folk dances.
Trans. by Viggo Bovbjerg [Chicago, IL]: Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, 1917.. p.21.
-- 'shoemakers dance' in: Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ Folk dances of Denmark, containing
seventy-three dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p. 37.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2012-06-12, rev. 2022-03-24.
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