| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | Promenade: Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance 4 change steps, moving CCW [in LOD], |
| 5-6 | Couples dance 3 walking steps moving CCW [in LOD], | |
| 7-8 | Couples turn half-way round towards partner, and dance 3 walking steps moving CW [in RLOD]in the circle..
[Note: The above is Malmi's description in Hoppu's paper. The video and Joukowsky's description include other possible versions of the promenade part.] |
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| 9-12 | (b) | Couple turn: Couples take waltz hold and turn, moving in LOD.
[Hoppu, translating Malmi's description, specifies a two-hand hold and 4 ripaska or 'crouch-hop' steps turning half-way round CW. Finish turning CCW, with M finishing to R of partner. In the video (link below), however, the couples are turning CW with either smooth change steps, or a slow (1 bar) pivot followed by a change step.] |
| Repeat (b) if music permits. | ||
| Repeat from (a) as desired. |
See video from Zabava 2018
Provenance: although now best known as a sailors' 'exhibition' dance, the tune has been used for a social (couple) dance as well as for a quadrille dance. According to Hoppu, the tune, which may have its origins in a Moldavian song 'Kalach', and dance became popular in Russia in the early 1900s, especially during the Russian civil war (1918-1922). Hoppu encountered it as a couple dance during a research trip to Ingria (Ingermanland) in 1990. taught by Anatol Joukowsky at 1954 Folk Dance Camp, Stockton CA, and by Irene Ala-Jukuri at Grand Finn Festival, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario July 2010.
Source: Hoppu, Petri
"Jablochko: dans, musik och revolution" in Folkdans forsknng i Norden 2020. [in Swedish]
See also:
-- Malmi, Viola/ Karjalaisen kansantanssin lähteillä. Helsinki: VSL, 1993. p. 68. [in Finnish]
-- Ala-Jukuri, Irene Grand Finn Festival, Sault Ste Marie 2010-07 - syllabus II
-- Joukowsky, Anatol Jablochko Stockton CA: Stockton Folk Dance Camp, 1954.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-13-02, rev. 2023-10-03.
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