Country: Suistamo, Karelia, formerly Finland
Type: set dance
Formation: 4 couple quadrille, numbered 1-4, CW from the top couple (couple standing with backs to the music)
Steps: laukka (slip-steps),
polkka,
k&ävelyä (walk)
Sheet music:
(1) Hukkanen, Timo/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.72.;
(2) Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 1998. p.63.
(3) 'after Feodor Pratsu, Impilahti, Karelia' 'huuliharppu'/mouthorgan tabulature
Recordings:
Finlands Svenska Folkdansring Årsprogram 2005-2006 track 05;
Kettunen, Antti [YouTube];
Nieminen, Rauno 'after Feodor Pratsu, Impilahti, Karelia' Nordic Folk Instruments bowed lyre (Caprice 2011) [YouTube];
See also midi file.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| |:1-4:||:5-8:| | (1) | Alkupiiri (circle): All form closed circle, and dance CW, 16 walking steps. Ditto CCW, 16 walking steps. |
| |:1-4:||:5-8:| | (1) | Nyykytys: Couple 1 takes waltz hold, and dances across the set, CW around couple 3, then CW around couple 2, CCW around couple 4, and return to original place. 32 slip-steps. |
| 3x|:1-4:||:5-8:| | Couples 2, 3, and 4 repeat, one couple at a time. [Ie Dancing first CW around the couple opposite, CW around the couple standing to their left, and CCW around the couple standing to their right, and return to place.] | |
| 1-4 | (2) | Tyttöjen kierto (W visits): W1 dances CW around M3, 4 polkka steps. |
| 1-4 | W1 takes 2-hand hold with M3, and they turn one full turn on the spot, 4 polkka steps. | |
| |:5-8:| | W1 repeats (2) with M2. | |
| |:1-4:||:5-8:| | W1 repeats (2) with M4, and then with her partner. | |
| 6x|:1-4:||:5-8:| | W2, W3, and W4 repeat (2), in turn. [Ie each W begins with opposite M, then M standing to her original left, then M standing to her original right, and finally her partner.] | |
| 8x|:1-4:||:5-8:| | (3) | Poikien kierto (M visits): all M repeat (2), one at a time, as described above. |
| 1-2 | (4) | Tyttöjen vaihto (W change): head couples, holding inside hands, advance with 4 walking steps |
| 3-4 | head M take opposite W by her L hand in his R hand, and turning CCW back to M's place. | |
| 1-4 | Head couples take 2-hand hold and turn CW on the spot, 8 walking steps. | |
| |:5-8:| | Side couples repeat (4) to exchange partners. | |
| |:1-4:| | Head couples repeat (4) to return to original partner. | |
| |:5-8:| | Side couples repeat (4) to return to original partner. | |
| 2x|:1-4:||:5-8:| | (5) | Poikien vaihto (M change): repeat (4). This time it is the M who move to opposite place. |
| |:1-4:||:5-8:| | (6) | Loppupiiri (circle): all form closed circle, and dance 16 walking steps CW and 16 walking steps CCW. |
See a shortened and rechoreographed version from Hämeenlinnan kurssilta 2017 for Nordlek 2018.
This was one of the combined dances at Nordlek 2006 in Göteborg and 2018 in Falun.
Source: Rausmaa, Esko/ Tanhuvakka: Suomen perinnetanssit. [Helsinki]: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. pp. 244-245.
See also:
-- Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakka. Porvoo: W Söderström, 1977 pp. 211-213.
-- Blomberg, Marcus description May 2005 for Nordlek 2006. [in Swedish]
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2018-11-06, rev. 2023-03-10.
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