Skubkontra, Salling


Country: Salling, Denmark
Type: set dance
Formation: 4 couple quadrille. Head couples (couples 1 and 2) have respectively backs to or face the music. Side couples (couples 3 and 4) stand respectively to R of couples 1 and 2.
Steps: hoptrin (step-hop), sideløbstrin (slip step), polka
Sheet music: (1) 358:268, (2) Flyv og skub kontra after Peder "Spillemand" Jensen, (3) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/Gamle Salling-danse. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1980, p. 24, (4) Eliasen, John/ Sving egen! - 40 danske folkedanse 1:st (English version). s.l.: Danske Folkdansere, Danske Folkdanseres Spillemandskreds, Danske Gymnastik- og Ungdomsforeninger, 1993. pp.81-82. May also be danced to Otte mands dans II, Salling, with part A repeated.
Recordings: Maskineri 'Skob Konter, nr 54 fra Anders Tops nodebog, Midtjylland' Hopsa 101 track 05; Rejseorkestret Sving egen cd 2 track 14;

Bars Part Dance progression:
|:1-8:| 1 (a) Circle: all form closed circle and circle CW, 8 steps-hops. Ditto CCW, 8 steps-hops.
|:9-16:|   (b) Swing: all take R-elbow hook with partner and turn CCW, 8 step-hops. Ditto CW, with L-elbow hook, 8 step-hops.
17-24   (c) Cross-overs: head couples take waltz hold and dance to opposite place, W passing back-to-back, 8 slip steps.
Ditto, without turning, to return to place, 8 slip steps.
17-24   Side couples repeat (c).
|:25-32:|   Polka: In waltz hold, all dance [turning]polka twice CCW round the set, 16 polka steps.
    Parts (b), (c) and (d) are the same in all sequences.
|:1-8:| 2 (a) Chain: all dance R-hand chain round the set, 16 step=hops.
Repeat from (2 (a)) as desired.

See video from YouTube with Buskspil, Roskilde Spillemandslaug, FOD

Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/Gamle Salling-danse. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1980, pp. 24-25.
See also:
-- Eliasen, John/ Sving egen! - 40 danske folkedanse 1:st (English version). s.l.: Danske Folkdansere, Danske Folkdanseres Spillemandskreds, Danske Gymnastik- og Ungdomsforeninger, 1993. pp.81-82.
Translation: L. Ruus, Oakville, 2022-02-06.


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