Country: Vårdö, Åland/Ahvenanmaa, Finland
Type: couple dance/circle dance/mixer
Formation: varies
Steps: varies
Sheet music:
(1) Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f./ Musik till Åländska folkdanser.
[Finström]: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f., [1981]. p.18.
(2) Brages Folkdanslag/ nr 11 in: II: Dansmelodier till 45 folkdanser. Helsingfors: Brages Förlag, 1949. p.8.
(3) Heikel, Yngvar/ Nr. 61 in: Folkdans: B. dansbeskrivningar sammanställda av Yngvar Heikel.
Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1938. p.327.
(4) Hukkanen, Timo/ 'Lumparlandin ravi' Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.57.
(5) Andersson, Otto & Greta Dahlström/ Nr. 1513 in: Folkdans: A2. yngre dansmelodier.
(Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 466; Finlands Svenska folkdiktning, VI)
Åbo: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1975. p.519.
(6) Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Musik till gillesdanser i Norden: fiol. Stockholm: Svenska Ungdomsringen för
Bygdekultur, 1970. p. 37 and on FolkWiki.
(7) Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ 'Lumparland's trot' in: Folk-dances of Finland,
containing sixty-five dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p.68.
[Same tune as Engelska trippen.]
Recordings:
Komulainen, Jari & Panu Helke Halihiljaa - Tanhuvakkan sävelmistön paritanssit track 25.
| Lumparlandstravarin, Lumparland
Type: circle dance/mixer Formation: any number of couples in closed circle. Steps: klacksteg/kanta-askelikkoja (heel step), gångsteg/kävelyä (walk) |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| |:1-4:| | (a) | Ring (circle): All dance CW, 16 walking steps.
On the last 2 steps, W step in to form inner circle facing respective partners who are facing into circle. Free hand at waist. |
| 5-6 | (b) | Klack step & omdansning (heel steps & couple turn): All beginning with L foot, couples dance 2 heel steps. |
| 7-8 | Couples take two-hand hold witn partner and turn 1/2 turn CW, 4 walking steps. | |
| 9-12 | Couples repeat (b).
[Repeat from (a) as desired.] The dance can be danced as a mixer by having M or W move up 1 couple at beginning (a) each time.] Provenance: documented by Yngvar Heikel in 1922, as danced by Finström's Ungdomsförbund. Source: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f./ Beskrivning av Åländska folkdanser. [Finström]: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f., [1982]. pp.38-39 |
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| Lumparlandstravarin, Vårdö, var. 1
Type: couple dance/mixer Formation: any number of couples in open circle, facing in LOD. M has R arm around Ws back; W has L arm around Ms back. Free hand hanging at side. Steps: engelska/enkeliskahyppely (jig step), sidsteg/sivuaskele (side step), gångsteg/kävelyä (walk), hoppsteg/hyppyaskele (step hop), |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-8 | (a) | Promenade: Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance CCW (in LOD) around the set, 16 walking steps. Each inside (MR/WL) step is a sweeping step, such that inside foot sweeps along floor before closing to outside foot. |
| 1-8 | M turns to R. W to L, change hold [ie hold with ML/WR arm around partner's back], and repeat (a)
moving in RLOD.
Finish facing partner. |
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| 9-12 | (b) | Engelska (jig steps & couple turn): Hands on hips. M beginning with L, W with R foot, couples dance 8 jig steps. |
| 13-14 | Couples take waltz hold and dance in LOD, 2 side steps (13). Ditto in RLOD, 2 side steps (14). | |
| 15-16 | Couples turn CW, 4 step-hops. | |
| 9-16 | Repeat (b).
[Repeat from (a) as desired.] [Can be danced as a mixer by having M or W move up 1 couple at beginning of (a) each time.] Provenance: documented by Viking Sundberg, 1950, based on informant Ida Gustava Lindholm, née 1873 in Vårdö. She had moved to Lumparland in 1894, had never seen Lumparlandstravarin danced in Lumparland, but remembered it from her childhood in Vårdö. Source: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f./ Beskrivning av Åländska folkdanser. [Finström]: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f., [1982]. p.39 |
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| Lumparlandstravarin, Vårdö, var. 2
Type: couple dance/mixer Formation: any number of couples in open circle, holding inside hands, facing in LOD. Free hand hanging at side. Steps: klacksteg/kanta-askelikkoja (heel step), gångsteg/kävelyä (walk) |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| |:1-8:| | (a) | Ring (circle): Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance CCW (in LOD) around the set, 30 walking steps.
[On the last 2 steps, turn to] face partner. |
| 9-10 | (b) | Klacksteg & omdansning (heel steps & couple turn): Couples dance L heel step, stepping forward onto R foot with heel (9). Repeat with R heel srep (10). |
| 11-12 | Repeat (b). | |
| 13-16 | Couples take 2-hand hold with partner, and, beginning with L foot, turn CW 1-1/2 times on the spot, 8 walking steps.
Finish in partner's place. |
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| 9-16 | Repeat all of (b), beginning heel steps with L heel forward and turning CCW to return to place.
[Repeat from (a) as desired.] Can be danced as a mixer by having M or W move up 1 couple at beginning of (a) each time. Provenance: documented by Otto Andersson, 1905. Source: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f./ Beskrivning av Åländska folkdanser. [Finström]: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f., [1982]. p.40 |
Source: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f./ Beskrivning av Åländska folkdanser.
[Finström]: Ålands Ungdomsförbund r.f., [1982]. pp.38-40
See also:
-- Heikel, Yngvar/ Nr. 550 in: Folkdans: B. dansbeskrivningar sammanställda av Yngvar Heikel.
(Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 268; Finlands Svenska folkdiktning, VI) Faksimilutgåva 1982.
Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1938. pp. XIII, 327-328, 442, 465.
-- Brages Folkdanslag/ nr 11 in: 45 folkdanser. Helsingfors: Brages Förlag, 1949. pp. 22-23.
-- Rausmaa, Esko/ Tanhuvakka: suomen perinnetanssit. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.67.
-- Svenska ungdomsringen för bygdekultur/ Beskrivning av gillesdanser i Norden. Stockholm: Svenska ungdomsringen för
bygdekultur, 1970 p.90.
-- Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ 'Lumparland's trot' in: Folk-dances of Finland,
containing sixty-five dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p.68.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2019-12-14, rev. 2023-03-27.
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