Country: Pori, Satakunta, Finland
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, M facing LOD, W facing RLOD. Holding inside (MR/WL) hands, free fist at waist.
[Tanhuvakka 1977 has couples facing into centre of circle.]
Steps:
laukka (slip steps),
polkka
Sheet music:
(1) Hukkanen, Timo/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.71.;
(2) Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 1998. p.62.
Recordings:
Katrillaten 2 (SKY-02) track 16.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-2 | (a) | Vastakkain ja seläkkäin: Dance 2 polkka steps in place, turning to face partner on 1st, and away from partner on second, swinging arms back and forth with motion of body. |
| 3-4 | Take 'butterfly' hold with partner (two-hand hold, arms stretched out to sides at shoulder height), dance 4 slip steps to ML, ie into centre of circle. [Tanhuvakka 1977 has couples explicitly dancing into centre of circle.] | |
| 5-8 | Repeat (a), this time dancing slip steps back to place. | |
| 9-16 | (b) | Polkka: Take polkka hold (waltz hold, with ML/WR joined hands on Man's L hip) and dance 4 polkka steps turning CW while moving in the LOD, then 4 polkka steps turning CCW. |
| [Repeat from (a) as desired.] |
See video from/with Karjalan Nuorten kansantanssiryhmä Lykky 2021
Source: Recalled by Otto Harjun, 1936. Described by Sofia Stensfors (born 1858). It had been widespread in her youth. The tune, under the name 'Ristiääninen polkka', as played by Arvo Lindfors (born 1904), from Pomarkku/Påmark. Taught by ?, in Vanouver in the early 1970s.
Source: Rausmaa, Esko/ Tanhuvakka: Suomen perinnetanssit. s.l.: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p. 104.
See also:
-- Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakka. Porvoo: W Söderström, 1977. pp. 100-101.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2012-06-19, rev. 2023-03-10.
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