Country: Viitasaari, Finland
Type: set dance
Formation: quadrille set of 4 couples. Head couples have backs to or face music, side couples stand to R of respective head couples. Couples are numbered from 1 to 4 CW around the set. Holding inside hands.
Sheet music:
(1) Hukkanen, Timo/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.95.
(2) Hukkanen, Timo/ 'fria valet aka riian vaali Lapinjärveltä' Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.11.
(3) Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 1998. p.76.
(4) Väisänen, Yrjö/ nr 31 in: Kisapirtti: 125 suomalaista kansantanssia - sävelmistö.
Porvoo: Werner Söderström Oy, [1962]. p.15.
(5) Collan, Anni/ nr 45 in: Suomalainen kisapirtti - nuotit. 4 painos. Helsinki: V. Söderström, 1946. p. 41.
(11) Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ 'free choice' in: Folk-dances of Finland,
containing sixty-five dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. pp. 52-53.
Recordings: Pelimannikilta Katrillaten 1 (SKY-01) track 11.
| As described in Tanhuvakka
Steps: vuorokarkelo, kävelyä (walk) |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | Vastuu (advance & retire): Head couples begin with outside (ML/WR) foot and advance, 4 walking steps. Retire ditto. |
| 1-4 | Head couples take 2-hand hold with partner, and turn CW on the spot, 8 walking steps. | |
| 5-12 | (b) | Vuorokarkelo: Head couples dance vuorokarkelo with opposite, continue to opposite place (5-8), and dance karkelo again with opposite to return to place (9-12). |
| 13-16 | Head couples take 2-hand hold with partner, and turn CW on the spot, 8 walking steps. | |
| |:1-4:| | Head couples repeat (a). | |
| 5-16 | Head couples repeat (b). | |
| 17-19 | (c) | Läpikäynti (cross over): Head couples change places, W passing on the inside. 6 walking steps.
At opposite place, hold inside hands.
Repeat turning CCW, 6 walking steps (9-11). |
| 17-19 | Head couples change places as above. | |
| |:17-19:| | Head couples take 2-hand hold with partner, and turn CW on the spot, 6 walking steps, and CCW 6 walking steps. | |
| |:20-23:| | (d) | Kättely (chain): All dance R-hand chain once around the set and return to place. 16 walking steps. |
| |:20-23:| | Head couples take 2-hand hold with partner, and turn CW on the spot, 8 walking steps. Ditto CCW, 8 walking steps. | |
| 2x(|:1-4:|,5-16, 2x|:17-19:|,2x|:20-23:|) |
Side couples repeat from (a).
Provenance: First described by Asko Pulkkinen in 1909. Source: Rausmaa, Esko/ Tanhuvakka: suomen perinnetanssit. 3rd ed. [Helsinki]: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.148. See also:
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| As taught by Suonpää
Steps: polkka, kävelyä (walk) Recordings: [recordings as above, but played ca 25-30% faster] |
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| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-2 | (a) | Vastuu (advance & retire): Head couples begin with outside (ML/WR) foot and advance, 4 walking steps. |
| 3-4 | Head couples retire. Meanwhile, side couples advance as above. 4 walking steps. | |
| 1-2 | Head couples advance. Meanwhile, side couples retire. 4 walking steps. | |
| 3-4 | Head couples retire. Meanwhile, side couples advance. 4 walking steps. | |
| 5-7 | (b) | Polkkavastuu (advance & retire): Head couples advance, 3 polkka steps, turning face-to-face, back-to-back, face-to-face.
Meanwhile, side couples retire, 3 polkka steps, turning face-to-face, back-to-back, face-to-face. |
| 8-10 | Head couples retire, 3 polkka steps, turning face-to-face, back-to-back, face-to-face.
Meanwhile, side couples advance, 3 polkka steps, turning face-to-face, back-to-back, face-to-face. |
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| 11-16 | Head and side couples repeat (b). | |
| |:17-19:| | (c) | Paripyörintä (couple turn): Couples take two-hand hold with partner, and turn CW in place (side couples moving out to place)
(9-11). 6 walking steps
Repeat turning CCW, 6 walking steps (9-11). |
| 2x|:20-23:| | (d) | Kättely (chain): All dance R-hand chain once around the set and return to place. 32 walking steps. |
| Repeat from (a) as desired. Side couples begin vastuu, head couples dance as side couples above. Ie the two pairs of couples exchange roles in repeat.
Provenance: As taught by Matti Suonpää, Toronto, 2012.
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Provenance: First described by Asko Pulkkinen, and later translated by Pirkko Satola for a workshop she taught in Shingle Springs, CA, August 1999. Often danced as "dessert" following a quadrille on Åland/Ahvenanmaa and eastern Nyland/Uusimaa, as well as after other dances. such as 'Fyrkant' and 'Kontra'. It was often in turn followed by a waltz.
See also:
-- Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko Tanhuvakka. Porvoo: W Söderström, 1977. p. 223.
-- Väisänen, Yrjö/ nr 31 in: Kisapirtti: 125 suomalaista kansantanssia. Porvoo: Werner Söderström
Oy, [1962]. pp. 54-55.
-- Collan, Anni/ nr 45 in: Suomalainen kisapirtti. 4 painos. Helsinki: V. Söderström, 1946. pp. 87-88.
-- Heikel, Yngvar/ Nr. 107 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. XI, 100-105, 422-423, 463-464
-- Finlands svenska folkdansring/ Årsprogram 1999-2000. [Helsingfors]: Finlands Svenska Folkdansring rf, [1999]. pp. 70-71.
-- Burchenal, Elizabeth (trans.)/ 'free choice' in: Folk-dances of Finland,
containing sixty-five dances.... New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1915. p.53.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2019-03-02, rev. 2023-05-14.
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