Country: Viipuri, Etelä-Karjala (south Karelia), Finland
Type: set dance
Formation: 4 couple quadrille, couples are numbered CW from couple 1 which stands with backs to the music.
Steps: kävelyä (walk)
Sheet music:
(1) Hukkanen, Timo/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.104.
(2) Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakan sävelmistö. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 1998. p.85.
Recordings: Kutinaa kengissä - tanhut yli 10-vuotiat (KTNLCD02) track 29.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| |:1-8:| | 1 (a) | Piiri (circle): All couples form closed circle, and walk 16 steps CW, and 16 steps CCW. |
| 9-12 | (b) | Vastuu (advance & retire): Couples 1 and 3 dance 4 walking steps toward opposite couple, giving a brief curstey/bow on the last step. 4 walking steps backwards to place. |
| 13-16 | Couples 2 and 4 repeat (b). | |
| 9-16 | (c) | Kättely (chain): All couples right-hand chain, 16 walking steps. |
| 9-16 | (d) | Vastuu (advance & retire): Repeat (1 b). |
| |:1-8:| | 2 (a) | Haalaaminen (M chain): All M take R elbow hook with corner W (ie M1/W2, M2/W3 etc.) and dance 8 walking steps CW on the spot,
move on to the next W CW in the set (ie M1/W3, M2/W4, etc), take L-elbow hook and dance 8 walking steps CCW, move on to the next W CW in the set , take R-elbow hook and dance 8 walking steps CW, move on to partner, take L-elbow hook and dance 8 walking steps CW, returning to place. |
| 9-16 | (b) | Vastuu (advance & retire): Repeat (1 b). 16 walking steps. |
| 9-16 | (c) | Kättely (chain): Repeast (1 c). 16 walking steps. |
| 9-16 | (d) | Vastuu (advance & retire): Repeat (1 b). |
| |:1-8:| | 3 (a) | Piiri (circle): Repeat (1 a). |
Provenance: the dance was taught by Anna Jäppinen, who had learned it in the rural area around Vyborg circa 1850. The dance has been shortened by omitting the repeated 'advance & retire' at the end of each part/seuqnce and by combining the men's chain (2 (a)) into one sequence, although originally each M performed it individually in turn. Published by Anni Collan in 1908 (as 'Vanha sappu'). Taught by Turun Kansantanssin Ystävät in Vancouver, April 1984.
Source: Rausmaa, Esko/ Tanhuvakka: suomen perinnetanssit. 3rd ed. [Helsinki]: Suomalaisen Kansantanssin Ystävät ry, 2012. p.230.
See also:
-- Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa & Esko/ Tanhuvakka: suuri suomalainen kansantanssikirja. Porvoo: Werner Söderström, 1977. p.256.
Original description in Swedish: Laine Ruus, Vancouver, 1984-04.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2012-03-16, rev. 2023-09-27.
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