Country: Yleissuomalaisia, (all over) Finland
Type: couple dance
| Kerenski
Formation: couples in open circle, waltz hold, M facing out of circle, W facing in. Steps: hoppavalssi or laukka (slip step), sivuaskelikko (side-step), jalan heilautukset (step-swing), kävelyä (walk) Sheet music: (1) Hukkanen, Timo/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.43. (AAB,A=4,B=24) (2) Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 1998. p.37. (AAB,A=4,B=24) (3) Askolin, Erica/ Seura- ja juhlatansseja: nuotisto. Porvoo: Kansantanssinuorten Liitto ry, 2012. p.20. (AABB,A=B=8) Recordings: Aitomäen Pelimannit (2016) track 09 [YouTube]; Danzfolk 'Kerenski - Vengerka' Wie es uns gefällt! (Dwarslöper-0011200) (2001) track 18 [YouTube]; Kangas, Olli & Kari Peltoniemi Finlande: musiques d'Ostrobotnie (Buda Records-92756-2) track 16; Komulainen, Jari & Panu Helke Halihiljaa track 16; Kotikallio, Ilja Karmuuni lauloi (Kansanmusiikki-instituutti – KICD 124) (2015) track 23; Lakselv Spellemannslag Danseslåtter frå Finnmark track 05; Larsen, Willy Kaipuu Valssi/Kerenski (Columbia (3015-F)) (1925) track B [Internet Archive]; Larsen, Willy Land of the midnight sun: early music of Scandinavia on 78 RPM [Internet Archive]; Larsen, Willy Historiallisia levytyksiä osa 3 (Odeon – 5 E048-34302) (1971) track A6; Pelimannikilta Juhla- ja salonkitansseja track 13; Pohjolan Pojat, Walter Eriksson Memories of Finland (Colonial Records – COL-LP-169) track A4; Väänänen, Timo Finlandia 10 (A festival of Finnish kantele music) (Finlandia Records – 0927-44971-2)(2001) track 04. |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-4:| | (a) | Promenade: Starting with outside (ML/WR) foot, dance 2 sidesteps in LOD (1-2),
followed by 4 walking steps in LOD (3-4). Repeat.
Finish turning to face in RLOD. Modify waltz hold by folding joined forearms (ML/WR) in towards chest. |
| 5-12 | Repeat (a) in RLOD. | |
| 13-14 | (b) | Figuré: Holding inside hands, 2 step-swings, starting stepping on outside (ML/WR) foot and swinging free foot. |
| 15-16 | Drop hold and turn full circle individually, M CCW (over L shoulder) and W CW (over R shoulder). 4 walking steps. | |
| 17-20 | Repeat (b). | |
| 21-24 | (c) | Couple turn: Two-hand hold with partner, M facing out of circle, and starting with outside (ML/WR) foot,
dance 4 walking steps towards centre of circle (M backward, W forward) (21-22).
Ditto to return to place (M forward, W backward)(23-24). |
| 25-28 | Take waltz hold, hoppavalssi or laukka steps moving in LOD.
[Vanhapelto taught this with 8 pivot steps.] Repeat from (a) as desired. See videos from/with Borgå Gymnasium, 2020 Provenance: Taught and played by siblings Edith Tuomi (née Lindfors, 1907) and Arvo Lindfors (born 1907) in Pomarkuu, Satakunta. [Tanhuvakka, 2012] Taught by Martti Vanhapelto, in Vancouver, February 1985. Source: Rausmaa, Esko/ Tanhuvakka: suomen perinnetanssit. 3rd ed. [Helsinki]: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p. 45.
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| Kerenskoi, Kalevala, Karelia, (former) Finland
Formation: lines of couples facing couples, or can also be done as couples in open circle facing in LOD. Semi-closed (skewed) waltz hold. Steps: humppa, sivuaskikko (side-step), kävelyä (walk) Sheet music: (1) Tanssinriemu Kerenskoi (2) Junno, Sauli, Viola Malmi & Rauni Riikonen/ Leikkilipas. Leikkejä ja tansseja Karjalasta ja Suomesta. s.l.: Ilias Oy, 2003. p.103. Recordings: Merilä, Eija Kerenski/Kuularuiskulaulu (1970) track A; Merilä, Eija Talonpoikaisarmeijan lauluja (1970) (Scandia – SLP 538) track A5 [YouTube]; Merilä, Eija Talonpoikaisarmeijan lauluja (1978) (Scandia – HSLP 233) track A5; Orivesi All Stars 'Kazazok, Kerenski, Serberjanozka' Kaikenmoisia tansseja cd 1 track 16; Åttopojat Aatetta jaloa (Allstar Music-AllstarCD 014, 2004) track 14 [YouTube]. [Note: in most of these recordings, part B is played twice.] |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-2 | (a) | Promenade: In waltz hold, facing in LOD, step heel of outside foot (ML/WR) forward while
raising heel of inside foot (1:1), lower heel of inside foot to floor (1:3).
Step back onto toes of outside foot while raising heel of inside foot (2:1), lower heel of inside foot (2:3). [Note: Savilampi taught this as: step forward onto heel of outside foot while raising heel of inside foor (1:1), lower heel of inside foot (1:2). Step backwards onto ball of outside foot while raising heel of inside foot (1:3), and lower heel of inside foot (1:4). 4 walking steps in LOD (2).] |
| 3-4 | Beginning with outside foot, dance 4 walking steps forward in LOD. | |
| 5-8 | Repeat (a). | |
| 9-12 | (b) | Couple turn: Take 'butterfly' hold with partner. Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot,
dance 2 side-steps in LOD (9-10), flicking inside (MR/WL) foot up behind towards LOD on (10:3).
Repeat (c) moving in RLOD and with opposite footwork (11-12). |
| 13-16 | Take waltz hold, and dance 4 humppa steps turning CW and moving in LOD.
[Note: Junno et al suggest 'vaihtoaskelpolkka' aka humppa. Savilampi taught it with 4 polka steps.] |
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| 1-16 | Repeat from (a) as desired.
See videos from/with FinnFest 2013; Pispalan Sottiisi 2016; Pispalan Sottiisi 2016; Motoran Vinhakat Kaustinen 2018; Baalit 2019, Provenance: taught by Irene Ala-Jukuri at Grand Finn Fest 2010 in Sault Ste. Marie ON, and by Antti Savilampi at Oriveden tanhukurssi, Murikka, Dec. 27-30, 2019. Source:
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Provenance:
"One Russian-Revolution-themed song that remains well-known in Finland today is 'Kerenski', which borrows its tune
from the popular Russian two-step dance 'Karapet'. 'Kerenski' became a dance-floor hit across Finland in 1919, and
was recorded numerous times in the decades that followed. The song's popularity derives from its caustic mockery of
Alexander Kerensky as a “cook” who tried to “bake” a new Russia by using various nationalities as ingredients - all
before fleeing abroad at the end of 1917." [Suodenjoki
Commercializing 1917].
See also:
-- Junno, Sauli, Viola Malmi & Rauni Riikonen/ Leikkilipas. Leikkejä ja tansseja Karjalasta ja Suomesta.
s.l.: Ilias Oy, 2003. p.103. [|:1-16:|]
-- Suodenjoki, Sami/
Commercializing 1917: the Russian Revolution in Finnish popular songs. 2020.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2012-05-09 rev. 2023-10-03.
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