Country: Taasinge, Denmark
Type: longways progressive set dance
Formation: any number of couples in two lines, M to the R and W to the L as seen from the music (=top of the set),
numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, etc from the top of the set.
Steps:
chassé (change step);
gangtrin (walk);
appel (stamp/stomp);
hurretrin (buzz step)
Sheet music:
(1) 358:109
(2) Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Fyn og Øerne. 4 opl.
København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1984. p.46.
[or any anglaise/engelsk with appropriate structure (AABBCCDD,A=B=C=D=8) and tempo.]
Recordings:
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | (a) | Pass through: W1 faces W2, and M1 faces M2. The two pairs of M and W dance sideways to opposite line, the two W passing between the two M. 3 change steps followed by 3 stomps. |
| 1-8 | Repeat (a) to return to place. | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Cross-down & figure-8: M1 crosses down, dances CW around W3, crosses up, and dances CCW around M2 to finish between M2 and M3. Meanwhile, W1 crosses down, dances CCW around M3, crosses up, and dances CW around W2 to finish between W2 and W3. 16 walking steps. |
| |:17-24:| | (c) | C1 & C2 chain: Couples 1 and 2 (C1 & C2) dance R-hand chain [twice round]. Couple 1 begins by [R-in-R hand] turning 1/2 turn
CW ('svipper') before giving L hand to opposite. Couple 2 dances chain as usual, giving R hand to partner and L hand to opposite. 16 walking steps.
Finish with C2 in the place from which they started the chain, while C1 finishes in opposite line, ie M1 finishes in W line, and W1 in M line. |
| 25-32 | (d) | Swing: M1 with W2 and W1 with M2, take waltz hold and swing on the spot, 8 buzz steps. |
| 25-32 | Couples 1 and 2 take waltz hold with partner and swing on the spot, 8 buzz steps.
All finish in own lines, C2 in C1's original place and C1 in C2's place [ie having progressed]. |
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| When the dance repeats (from (a)), couple 1 dances with couple 3, while couple 2 rests.
When couple 1 dances with couple 5 and 6 and couple 2 dances with couple 3, and couple 4 rests.
When C1 dances with the last couple in the set, dance (a) as above. In part (b), C1 casts down around last couple, 4 walking steps, takes waltz hold and swings on the spot, 12 buzz steps. From this position, they dance parts (c) and (d) as above. [If danced in sets of 3 couples, couple 1, at the end of part (c) dances outside couple 3, and stands at the bottom of the set.] |
Provenance: H. Grüner-Nielsen and his wife first collect dances in Tåsinge and Ærø in 1918. At that time the dances were played and reviewed by Niels Poulsen, musician, along with two other musicians Lakkendrup and Simonsen, all since deceased. This enabled the dances to be resurrected 15 [sic, in 1941] years later, and the formation of a folk dance group "Taasinge Folkedansere".
See video from/with Låsby Folkedanserforening 2011,
Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme (FFF)/ Gamle danse fra Fyn og Øerne. 4 opl.
København: Foreningen til Folkdansens Fremme, 1984. pp. 46-47.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2023-08-14.
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