Country: Helsingfors, Finland
Type: couple dance. Turn is CCW.
Sheet music:
(1) 'Frölénsklubba, bakmes efter Richard Mette' in
Finlands svenska folkdansring/ Årsprogram 1998-1999. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring rf, 1998. p.23.
(2) 'Fröléns klubba' in: Folkdansaren 70(3):22, 2022.
[Note: 2/4-time music. Could be danced to any polka or polkka tune]
Recordings: Finlands svenska folkdansring Årsprogram 1998-1999 track 15.
| FSF description
Formation: open circle of couples, [facing LOD], waltz hold. Steps: described below. Count 1-&-2-&-3-&-4-& over 2 bars of music. |
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| Pulse/count | Dance progression | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Försteg (promenade step): Beginning with L foot, in open hold, gåsteg (walking steps), 2 steps per bar. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Omdansningssteg (turning step): Note: turn is CCW. Waltz hold. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | With weight on R foot and touching L to R foot, turn [CCW] on R with a light hop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| & | move L forward ready to start a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2-&-3 | L fotombytessteg (change step) diagonally forward to L, with a svikt (lift) on 2 and 3, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| & | move R past L while continuing turn to L [CCW], | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | step onto R with a low, slow hop, W stepping diagonally forward to L, M stepping diagonally back to L, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| & | touch L to R.
2 bars of music=1 bakmes step=1 full turn CCW.
Simultaeously, W begins turn with a fotombytessteg (change step).
Provenance: This bakmes arrived in Finland on the morning of Thursday, August 6, 1920, when Brages folkdance group returned from a 9 day visit in Stockholm, in conjunction with a Nordic folk dance festival, including Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The host association for the Brage group of 17 dancers and 2 musicians was Kulturella folkdansgillet. The Brage folk dancers and musicians, while in Stockholm, learned bakmes, slunga, hambopolska and Herrskapsvals, both the dances and the music, and brought them back to Helsingfors. The original musicians who had been in Stockholm in 1920, Valter Lindberg and Bror Eriksén, passed the music on to later musicians in Brage, including Frans Svahn, from whom Richard Mette learned it. Especially the bakmes was passed on in oral tradition until 1990 when Eivor Wallinvirta documented it, including filming it with 7 couples from Arbetets Vänner Huvudföreningen, Brage and Haga Ungdomsförening, with Richard Mette playing the fiddle. The music was transcribed by Timo Hukkanen, after Mette. An instructional video showing the step was filmed Sept. 1, 1990, with Wallinvirta and Anders Nyström, and a video recording of Richard Mette playing Fröléns klubba was recorded June 28, 2990 - both recordings are available from Suomen kansantanssininstituut. [Biskop, 2022] See video Bakmes på Fölisön 16.8.1990 [redirect from https://rb.gy/d1rjoh] Source: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring/ Årsprogram 1998-1999. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring rf, 1998. p.62.
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| Bob Fraley's description
Formation: couples scattered about dance floor. Open waist-shoulder hold or waltz hold. Steps: described below |
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| Dance progression: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Promenade step: brisk walking steps, in LOD to find a likely spot for the turning portion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turning step: Note: turn is CCW.
pulse: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Man: both R- L - R L^ both R- L - R L^ Woman: R- L- R L^ both R- L - R L^ both Note: turn is CCW on the spot. W starts dancing forward [in LOD], M backward. Note 2: ^ denotes a small svikt (lift). Provenance: As taught by Bob Fraley in Vancouver BC, 1977. |
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See also:
-- Aalto, Fred & Linda/ Finnish dance workshop [syllabus]. Vancouver, 2005-10-08
Description: Laine Ruus, Vancouver, 1977
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2012-06-11, rev. 2023-10-03.
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