Country: Etelä-Karjala, Finland
Type: set dance
Formation: 4, 6 or 8 in a square set.
Head couples have backs to music or face music. Couples are numbered CW around set beginning with head couple with back to music.
Steps: polkka,
laukka (slip-steps),
kävelyä (walk)
Sheet music:
(1) Hukkanen, Timo/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.77.
(2) Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 1998. p.68.
(3) Väisänen, Yrjö/ nr 95 in: Kisapirtti: 125 suomalaista kansantanssia - sävelmistö.
Porvoo: Werner Söderström Oy, [1962]. p.48.
(4) Martinsson, Bengt/ Danser från Norrr-Västerbotten samt Finland. Luleå: Svenska Ungdomsringen
för Bygdekultur - Övre Norrlands Distrikt, feb. 1978. p.40.
Recordings:
Kansantanhuyhtye Suomalaisia tanhuja (1957 PSO) track B7 [YouTube];
Karvinen, Antti Suomalaisia kansantanhuja 2 (1960 Fazer) track B1 [YouTube];
Karvinen, Antti Tanhuamme track B4;
Katrillaten 2 track 25;
Rytmi-kvintetti (Saaren yhtye) Tanhumusiikkia track A8.
See also: midi file;
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-8 | 1 (a) | Piiri (circle): All couples form closed circle, and dance 16 walking steps CW, swinging arms in and out. |
| 1-8 | Repeat CCW. 16 walking steps. | |
| 9-16 | (b) | Polkka: Take polkka hold (waltz hold, but with ML/WR joined hands on Man's L hip) and dance 8 polkka steps turning CW and moving in the LOD, half way round the set. |
| 9-16 | Dance 8 polkka steps turning CCW and moving in the LOD, to return to place. | |
| 1-8 | 2 (a) | Pikkupiirit (small circles): Head M (ie M1 and M3) and side W (W2 and W4) form small circle, M holding W waists, and W with hands on M shoulders. Dance 16 slip-steps moving CW, 2 full circuits and return to place. [Tanhuvakka has front basket hold.] |
| 1-8 | M2, M4, W1 and W3 repeat (2 a), but moving CCW, to return to place. | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Polkka: Repeat (1 b). |
| 1-8 | 3 (a) | Pääparien piiri (heads circle): Head couples (couples 1 and 3) form closed circle, hands at shoulder height. Dance 8 slip-steps moving CW, and 8 slip-steps moving CCW, and return to place. |
| 1-4 | Sivuparien kihuminen (sides cross over): Side couples, holding inside hands, dance 8 walking steps to opposite place, passing on the R, W slightly in front of partner, and swinging inside hands. | |
| 5-8 | Side couples repeat to return to place. 8 walking steps. | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Polkka: Repeat (1 b).
[Vanhapelto taught this as a repeat of (3 (a)) with side couples dancing as head couples above, and head couples dancing as side couples above.] |
| 1-8 | 4 (a) | Hanhenmarssi (chase): All turn to L, M with arms folded on chest, W with hands on partner's shoulders. Dance 16 walking steps moving CW in the set. |
| 1-8 | All turn 1/2 turn to L, W with fists on hips, M with hands on partner's shoulders. Dance 16 walking steps moving CCW in the set to return to place. | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Polkka: Repeat (1 b). |
| |:1-8:| | 5 (a) | Piirilaukka (slip-step circle): All form closed circle, hands at shoulder level. Dance 16 slip-steps, moving CW. Repeat, moving CCW. |
See video from/with Spjutsunds Folkdanslag 1994 (at 40:42). See also a possibly Ingrian version
Provenance: Taught by Martti Vanhapelto in Hillsboro, OR, 1987-10-09.
Source: Rausmaa, Esko/ Tanhuvakka: suomen perinnetanssit. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p. 218-219.
See also:
-- Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakka. Porvoo: W Söderström, 1977. pp. 217-218.
-- Rausmaa, Esko/ 'oikea käsi' in: Katrillia tanssimaan!. Kaustinen: Kansanmusiikin keskusliitto, 2000. p.16.
-- Väisänen, Yrjö/ nr 95 in: Kisapirtti: 125 suomalaista kansantanssia
Porvoo/Helsinki: Werner Söderström Oy, 1962. pp. 111-112.
-- Martinsson, Bengt/ Danser från Norrr-Västerbotten samt Finland. Luleå: Svenska Ungdomsringen
för Bygdekultur - Övre Norrlands Distrikt, feb. 1978. p.19.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2012-11-11, rev. 2023-03-18.
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