Country: Finland
Type: couple dance
Formation: couples in open circle, holding inside hands, facing in LOD.
Steps: fotombytessteg/vaihtoaskel (change step),
gångsteg/kävely (walk)
Sheet music:
(1) Finlands Svenska Folkdansring/ 8 gamla salongsdanser. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring r.f., 1973. p.6.
(2) Askolin, Erica/ Seura- ja juhlatansseja: nuotisto. Porvoo: Kansantanssinuorten Liitto ry, 2012. p.25.
(3) Gavrilovski La chaconne 1897.
Recordings:
Herrgårdskvartett Herrskapsdanser nr 1 track 09;
Pelimannikilta Juhla- ja salonkitansseja track 18;
Varuskunnan kavaljeerit Juhlatansseja 1 track 03 [YouTube].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1 | (a) | Pas demi-coupé: With weight on inside (MR/WL) foot, couples 'sweep' outside (ML/WR) foot forward with straight leg and bending somewhat towards outside leg [ie away from partner]. Followed by 2 walking steps (outside then inside). |
| 2 | Repeat with opposite footwork. | |
| 3 | Chassé & pas marché: Beginning with inside (MR/WL) foot and tuned slightly away from partner, couples dance 1 smooth change step (inside-outside-inside foot) forward in LOD, followed by 2 walking steps (outside-inside). | |
| 4 | Repeat with opposite footwork. | |
| 5-8 | Repeat (a).
Finish facing partner, M facing out of circle, W facing in. |
|
| 9 | (b) | Ballancé de menuet: Holding R-in-R hand, with hands lifted high to form an arch, couples step forward
with R foot, lifting L foot from floor, and gazing at partner under the arch (9:1).
Step back onto L foot (9:3), with a slight bow to partner. |
| 10 | Demi tour, chassé & par marché: Couples turn CW 1/2 turn to change places, 1 change-step followed by 2 walking steps. | |
| 11-12 | Repeat (b), holding L-in-L, turning CCW, and with opposite footwork, to return to place. | |
| 13-16 | Repeat (b).
[Repeat from (a) as desired.] |
See YouTube video from/with Kuusankosken lukio vanhojen tanssit 2018.
Provenance: Apparently unrelated to the Baroque dance of the 1600-1700s, of the same name, described in Feuillet notation in the 1704 Recueil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meilleurs entrées de ballet de Mr Pécour, ... [pp.10-19, 176-194]. Appears as a 'new' couple dance in Russia in 1897.
Source: 8 gamla salongsdanser. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring r.f., 1973. p.6.
See also:
-- Mäkelä, Sinikka, Erja Askolin & Matti Lankinen et al/ Seura- ja juhlatansseja: koti- ja
ulkomaisia seratansseja sekä juhla- ja salonkitansseja. Porvoo: Kansantanssinuorten Liitto ry, 2012. p.41.
-- Melkko, Une/ Seuratansseja. Koti- ja ulkomaisia tansseja sekä vanhat tanssit. Porvoo: Werner Söderström Oskeyhtiö., 1960.
-- Tanhukurssi Minnesota '93: pp. 77-78.
-- Николай Людвигович Гавликовский, П.
Константинов [Nikolai Lyudvigovich Gavlikovsky, P. Konstantinov]. (1897).
La Chaconne. Новый салонный танец "Шакон" [New Salon Dance "Chaconne"]. Санкт-Петербург:
Музыкальный магазин "Северная Лира."
(pdf)
-- Tansipalvelin: salonkitanssit [3 variations]
-- Astier, Régine / "Chacone pour une femme: chaconne de Phaéton: a performance study"
Dance research: the journal of the Society for Dance Research
Vol. 15, No. 2, Papers from the Dance to Honour Kings Conference (Winter, 1997), pp. 150-169. (https://doi.org/10.2307/1290893,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1290893)
Description: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2022-06-13, rev. 2023-02-25.
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