Vals sekstur, Salling

Country: Salling, Denmark
Type: mixer
Formation: any number of couples in closed circle. Best with 8 couples, but then not a mixer.
Steps: walk, waltz
Music: 358:274, sheet music
Recordings: Fjand Svend Bjerg en vestjysk spillemand track 10, Thy spillemandslaug Thy spillemandslaug 2 track 16.

Dance progression

|:1-8:| 1 (a) All dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps.

|:9-16:| (b) Still in waltz hold, but facing LOD, all dance CCW, beginning with outside foot (ML/WR), 16 slow walking steps.

17-32 (c) Couples dance 16 turning waltz steps.

Parts (b) and (c) are the same in all sequences.

|:1-8:| 2 (a) All dance R-hand chain, to 9th oncoming dancer (or first meeting with partner, if 8 couples).

Repeat from (2 (a)) as desired.

See video from KØST2017

Source: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme/Gamle Salling-danse. 4:e opl. København: Foreningen til Folkedansens Fremme, 1980, pp. 41-42.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-05-06

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		Dance progression
\|:1-8:\|	1 (a)	All dance CW, 8 waltz steps. Ditto CCW, 8 waltz steps.
\|:9-16:\|	(b)	Still in waltz hold, but facing LOD, all dance CCW, beginning with outside foot (ML/WR), 16 slow walking steps.
17-32	(c)	Couples dance 16 turning waltz steps.
		Parts (b) and (c) are the same in all sequences.
\|:1-8:\|	2 (a)	All dance R-hand chain, to 9th oncoming dancer (or first meeting with partner, if 8 couples).
		Repeat from (2 (a)) as desired.