Country: Jylland, Denmark
Type: couple dance
Formation: open circle of couples, Varsovienne hold but MR/WR hand on Ws waist, facing in LOD
Steps:
hæl og tå (heel and toe),
chassé (change step),
polka or
hopsa
Sheet music:
Bidstrup, Georg/ Singing games and folk dances.
Brasstown NC: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1941. p.34.
[Same tune as kaakkuri/kiikuri-kaakkuri/tanttuli [Finnish],
tantoli [Norwegian] and
tantoli {Swedish] versions].
Recordings:
Sjøgren, Kim Gamle danske folkedanse track 14 [YouTube].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-2 | (a) | Promenade: Beginning with weight on inside (MR/WL) foot, couples dance heel-toe with outside (ML/WR) (1), followed by a chassé forward in LOD (2). |
| 3-4 | Repeat bars 1-2 with reverse footwork. | |
| 1-4 | Repeat (a). | |
| |:5-8:| | (b) | Polka: Couples take closed waist-shoulder hold and dance turning polka [or hopsa, depending on the
music] moving in LOD.
[Repeat from (a) as desired.] |
See videos from/with Dansk Dansehistorisk Arkiv, recorded 1981, Herlev Gamle Danse 2022.
Provenance: A schottish variant that occurs in tantoli [Denmark], kaakkuri/kiikuri-kaakkuri/tanttuli [Finland], tantoli [Norway] and tantoli [Sweden], former Swedish-speaking islands of Estonia.
Source: video Dansk Dansehistorisk Arkiv/ Ældre selskabsdanse, video recorded 1981.
See also:
-- Bidstrup, Georg/ Singing games and folk dances.
Brasstown NC: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1941. pp. 34-35.
-- Burchenal, Elizabeth/
Dances of the people : a second volume of Folk-dances and singing games; containing twenty-eight folk-dances of the United States, Ireland, England, Scotland,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Switzerland.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1913. p.47.
-- Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Samkväms och gillesdanser. Stockholm: SUB, 1965. pp. 45-46
-- Bryans, Helen L. & John Madsen/
Scandinavian dances. Book II. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1942, pp. 18-18.
-- Tracie, Gordon
Stockton Folk Dance Camp syllabus 1964 pp. 73-74.
Description: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2023-07-19, rev. 2023-08-17.
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