Tantoli

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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