Country: Vendsyssel, Denmark
Type: set dance
Formation: round/square set, 3-6 couples. [Note: Berggreen's description is of a closed circle for 'as many as may'.
Part (b) is then played as many times as there are couples.]
Steps:
hurretrin (buzz step),
hopsabalancé
Sheet music:
(1) Sørensen, Pia & Per/ II: 26 gamle folkedanse fra forskellige egne 3 opl. Kolding: Eget forlag, 2005. p. 44.
(2) nr 180 'taprisør' in: Berggreen, A.P./ Folke-sange og melodier: fædrelandske og fremmede Bind 1 opl. 2, Kjöbenhavn:
Forlaget af den Gyldendalske Boghandling og Th. Lind, 1860. p.254.
A variant of the music for 'Dands fra Turø':
(3) Folkets Hus Spillefolk dans fra Thurø.
(4) nr 179 'dands fra Turø' in: Berggreen, A.P./ Folke-sange og melodier: fædrelandske og fremmede Bind 1 opl. 2, Kjöbenhavn:
Forlaget af den Gyldendalske Boghandling og Th. Lind, 1860. p.254.
Recordings:
Baltinget 'taprisør' Alive track 10 [YouTube];
Baltinget 'taprisør' Classic track 13 [YouTube Music];
Bugge, Kristian 'dands fra Turø' Dæily June Tune #18, 2020 [YouTube];
Dronningens Livstykke 'taprisør' Traditional 1976-1984 track 14;
Gjern Spillemænd 'dans fra Thurø' Gjern Spillemænd i Dallerup Kirke track 13;
Kræn Bysteds 'dands fra Turø' Kræn Bysted's track 09 [YouTube];
Serras 'taprisør' Second hand track 03;
Sjøgren, Kim 'taprisør' Gamle danske folkedanse track 06 [YouTube];
Svabonio 'taprisør' Lost and found track 22.
[Note: several of these recordings but not all are based on 4-couple sets.]
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-8:| | 1 (a) | Circle: All form closed circle, and dance CW, 16 buzz steps. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Figuré: All M begin with R foot and dance in, turning CCW to face corner with 1 hopsabalancé followed by 3 hopsabalancé steps facing corner. |
| 9-16 |
All M then dance 1 hopsabalancé to next W to his R, and 3 hopsabalancé steps in front of her.
All M continue moving CW around the set, dancing 4 hopsabalancé steps to and then in front of each W in the set. [Note: All W stay still in place, only the M move. The music should play bars 9-16 as many times as there are couples in the set.] |
|
| Part (b) is the same in all sequences. | ||
| |:1-8:| | 2 (a) | Swing: All swing partner, closed waist-shoulder hold, 16 buzz steps CW on the spot. |
| |:1-8:| | 3 (a) | W R-hand star: All W form R-hand star, and dance 16 buzz steps CW. |
| |:1-8:| | 4 (a) | M R-hand star: All M form R-hand star, and dance 16 buzz steps CW. |
| |:1-8:| | 5 (a) | W X-arm circle: All W form closed circle with crossed arms, and dance 16 buzz steps CW. |
| |:1-8:| | 6 (a) | M X-arm circle: All M form closed circle with crossed arms, and dance 16 buzz steps CW. |
| |:1-8:| | 7 (a) | W shoulder hold circle: All W form closed circle with shoulder hold, and dance 16 buzz steps CW.
[Berggreen describes hold as W holding each other around the neck.] |
| |:1-8:| | 8 (a) | M shoulder hold circle: All M form closed circle with shoulder hold, and dance 16 buzz steps CW.
[Berggreen describes hold as M holding each other around the neck.] |
| |:1-8:| | 9 (a) | Circle: All form closed circle, and dance 16 buzz steps CW. |
| |:1-8:| | Swing: The dance finishes with swing partner, as in 2 (a). |
Provenance: Originally a dance for 3 couples. First known occurence of sheet music and a dance description is nr 4 "La Caprieceux" in a handwritten musician's notebook from Copenhagen dated 1753. Also found in Svabo's Nótabók from 1775 as 'Lille Caprisose" and in Berggreen, A.P./ Danske folkesange og melodier: med et tillæg af Islandske og Færøiske. 3:e opl. Reitzels Forlag, 1869 [see below]. Berggreen identifies the source of the tune, dated 1843, only as "copied from the notebook of a musician from Jylland" [Berggreen p.270], more specifically Vendsyssel.
Source: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ II: 26 gamle folkedanse fra forskellige egne Samlet og bearbejdet af Pia & Per Sørensen. 3 opl. Kolding: Eget forlag, 2005. p. 45.
See also:
-- Svabonio, Jens Christian/ Nótabók Svabos eftir Jens Christian Svabonio. (ms.) 1775. p.42.
-- Berggreen, Andreas Peter/ Nr 180 'Taprisör' in: Folke-sange og melodier: fædrelandske og fremmede.
Bind 1.. opl. 2 Kjöbenhavn: Forlaget af den Gyldendalske Boghandling og Th. Lind, 1860. pp. 254, 270, 281.
-- Nørgaard, Kjeld/ "Vesterbo trekant" Hjemstavnsliv nr 6-7, 1996.
-- Nørgaard, Kjeld/
Om Berggreens danse, del 1. in: Dansens og musikkens rødder, nr 56, Jan. 2001.
-- Urup, Henning/ Lidt mer om Taprisør. in:
Dansens og musikkens rødder, nr 59, April 2001.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2019-11-18, rev. 2023-04-18.
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