Country: Denmark
Type: couple & set dance
Formation: varies
| Spansk vals, Avernakø
Type: set dance Formation: 2 couple sets, couples facing couples. Steps: vals (waltz) Sheet music: (1) 'nr. 208 in Mortensen's collection' (2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Avernakø og Korshavn. 1:e udg. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF), 2001, pp. 35-36. Recordings: |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-4 | (a) | Circle: Couples form closed circle, and dance CW, 4 waltz steps. |
| 5-8 | Giving R hand to opposite, all dance 4 waltz steps on the spot. M begin with L foot, W with R foot. | |
| 1-8 | (b) | Chain: All dance R-hand chain once round. On the first step pass opposite on the L, while clapping own hands. 8 waltz steps.
[In the introduction to the Avernakø and Korshavn (page 8), is a note attributed to Viggo Hertel in 1911, that they danced chains without giving hands, but started as if giving their partner the right hand.] |
| |:9-16:| | Repeat (a) and (b) to return to place. | |
| |:17-24:| | (c) | Waltz: All take waltz hold with partner and dance turning waltz CCW twice around opposite couple. 16 waltz steps. |
| Repeat from (a) as desired.
See video from/with KØST2017 Provenance: The dance was described by Viggo Hertel in 1911, who collected dances on Avernakø in 1909 and 1911. The music is number 208 in Jacob Mortensens collection, currently held in Dansk Folkemindesamling. Mortensen, a teacher from Tåsinge, collected folk music in South Fyn and surrounding islands including Avernakø in the late 1800s. Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Avernakø og Korshavn. 1:e udg. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF), 2001, pp. 35-36. |
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| Spansk vals, Randers
Type: set dance Formation: 2 couple sets, couples facing couples. Steps: vals (waltz) Sheet music: (1) 358:244 (2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Randersegnen. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF), 1997, pp. 23-24. Recordings: Bentzen, Bernhard Trekkspill på 78-plater, Vol. 3: norske og svenske innspillinger (2017 Aksent) [YouTube]; Knurrifas Dans og fjas - med Knurrifas track 16. |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| |:1-8:| | 1 (a) | Circle: Couples form closed circle, and dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW 8 waltz steps. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Individual spin: Dancers drop hand-hold, M fold arms on chest. W have hands at waist. Beginning with ML/WR foot, all turn individually CW while moving CCW around the set, 8 waltz steps. |
| 9-16 | All turn individually CW while moving CW around the set, 8 waltz steps. | |
| 17-20 | (c) | Figuré: All take 2-hand hold with partner. All dance 1 waltz step away from centre of set (17), 1 waltz step towards centre (18), 1 waltz step away from centre (19).
On 4th waltz step, towards centre of the set, hands are flung up, hold is dropped, W turn 1/2 turn CW (over R shoulder) and pass on the R to opposite M (20). |
| 21-24 | All take 2-hand hold with opposite. All repeat bars 17-20 to return to own partner, 4 waltz steps. | |
| 17-24 | Repeat (c), 8 waltz steps. | |
| Parts (b) and (c) are the same in all sequences. | ||
| |:1-8:| | 2 (a) | Waltz: Couples take waltz hold, and dance around the set CW 8 waltz steps, and CCW 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 3 (a) | Waltz: Couples repeat (2 (a)). |
| |:1-8:| | 4 (a) | 1-hand star: The two couples form R-hand star, and turn CW 8 waltz steps, and CCW, in L-hand star, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 5 (a) | 2-hand star: The two couples form 2-hand star, and turn CW 8 waltz steps, and CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 6 (a) | Back basket: The two couples form back basket, and turn CW 8 waltz steps, and CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | 7 (a) | Circle: The two couples form closed circle, and turn CW 8 waltz steps, and CCW, 8 waltz steps. |
| |:1-8:| | Waltz: The dance finishes with couples taking waltz hold, and dancing turning waltz around the floor.
See video from/with KØST2017 Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Randersegnen. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF), 1997, pp. 23-24. |
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| Spansk vals, Herlev
Type: couple dance Formation: open circle of couples, holding inside hands, facing LOD Steps: vals (waltz), gangtrin (slow walk, 1 step per bar) Sheet music: Recordings: |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-8 | (a) | Figuré: Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples step forward in LOD (1), 1 slow walking step.
With inside (MR/WL) foot, couples step forward in LOD (2), 1 long walking step. With outside (ML/WR) foot, couples step back in RLOD (3), 1 slow walking step. Beginning with inside (MR/WL) foot, turn toward partner to face RLOD (4), changing to holding ML/WR hands, 2 walking steps. Repeat (a) with opposite footwork and beginning moving forward in RLOD (5-8). Finish facing LOD. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Waltz: Couples take skewed waltz hold with partner, facing LOD.
Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance forward in LOD (9-12), 4 slow walking steps. In regular waltz hold, couples dance turning waltz (13-16), 4 waltz steps. Repeat from (a) as desired. See video from/with
Herlev gamle danse - Spansk vals 2023
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| Spansk vals, Hindsholm
Type: longways progressive set dance Formation: any number of couples in two lines, facing partner, M to L and W to R [as seen from the top of the set=music, numbered 1, 2, 3, etc] Steps: vals (waltz) [or chassé (change-step) ], tyrolervals Sheet music: Aabech, Tage 'Spansk vals' in: Hindsholm musik 5:8, 10, 1992. [a variant of the tune for Spansk vals, Randers] Recordings: Bentzen, Bernhard Trekkspill på 78-plater, Vol. 3: norske og svenske innspillinger (2017 Aksent) [YouTube]; Knurrifas Dans og fjas - med Knurrifas track 16. |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| Rasmus Henriksen's original description: Herrerne på venstre og damerne på højre undtagen den øverste herre skifter med sin dame så chance 2 gange og 2 gange og klappe og ude. | ||
| 1-8 | (a) | Change places: Couple 1 takes waltz hold and dances turning waltz 1-1/2 times round to finish in opposite line. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Advance, retire & waltz: M1 & W1 advance toward partner, and retire, with tyrolervals steps (9-12). Repeat (13-16).
Finish with a clap, and W1 facing M2, while M1 faces W2. |
| 9-16 | M1 with W2, and W1 with M2, dance turning waltz twice round [the other couple, 8 waltz steps].
Couple 1 finishes in couple 2's places, but in opposite lines. Couple 2 finishes in own lines, having progressed 1 place up the set. Couple 1 repeats (b), now clapping to and waltzing with couple 3. With each repeat, couple 1 repeats (b), now clapping to and waltzing with couple each couple in turn down the set. When couple 1 has finished dancing with couple 3 and moved on to couple 4, couple 2 begins dancing part (a). The dance continues until all couples have returned to original places. [Alternatively, all odd numbered couples may begin dancing part (a) to move to opposite line, and dance (b) successively with all even-numbered couples, until all couples are in original places.] |
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| Waltz: Aabech suggests finishing the dance with all couples taking waltz hold with partner, and dancing turning waltz
around the floor, to a suitable waltz tune.
Provenance: Around the 1810s, when the waltz was a new dance, Lars Olsen's (the elder) handwritten notebook from Martofte contained more than a hundred waltz tunes, of
which one was entitled 'Spansk vals'. The tune was typical for its, written in 8ths notes, and likely danced in a more tripping style than it
would be currently. In the 1870s in Copenhagen a number of dance teachers produce books of dance descriptions, among which one finds 'Spansk vals'.
Around 10 years earlier, Rasmus Henriksen had noted the description above. Beginning 1989-1990 a study circle on Hindsholm worked on
reconstructing the old dances from the local area, based on Rasmus Henriksen's notebook, of which this is one such reconstruction.
Source: Aabech, Tage 'Spansk vals' in: Hindsholm musik 5:8-11, 1992. |
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| Spansk vals (Balling)
Type: progressive round dance Formation: even number of couples facing couples in circle, every second couple facing LOD, every second couple facing RLOD, W standing to R of partner. Steps: balancé (pas de basque), vals (waltz) Sheet music: Recordings: |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-4 | (a) | Balancé & switch: Couples dance 2 balancés (1-2), take R-in-R with opposite, and turn 1/2 way round CW to opposite place (3-4), 2 waltz steps. [Finish facing partner.] |
| 5-8 | Couples dance 2 balancés (5-6) [facing partner.], take R-in-R with partner, and turn 1/2 way round CW to opposite place (7-8), 2 waltz steps. | |
| 1-8 | Repeat (a). | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Balancé with clap: Repeat (a), with a clap on each balancé, followed by hands at waist. |
| |:17-24:| | (c) | Waltz: Couples take waltz hold with partner. All dance turning waltz around facing couple, 16 waltz steps.
Finish back-to-back with previous facing couple, facing a new couple, ie having progressed.
The dance finishes when all couples are facing the original couple with whom they began the dance. Source: Balling, Vilhelm/ Anvisning til at danse "Menuet", "Les Lanciers", "Française", "Jule-Kvadrille", "Le Prince Impériale", "Eugenie-Kvadrille", "Sekstur", "Jernbane-Kvadrille", samt 50 forskellige selskabsdanse tillige med 150 meget interessante og let udførlige kotillons-Ture. 7 opl. reprint 2019. Kjøbenhavn: Herdahl, 1878 (1875?). p.40. |
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-06-12, rev. 2023-06-30.
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