Country: Iceland
Type: longways progressive set dance
Formation: even number of couples facing couples in two lines, odd-numbered couples in one line, even-numbered couples in the other.
Steps:
balancé (pas de basque),
vals (waltz)
Sheet music: documentation prepared for Nordic ball at Nordlek 2012 & 2018
Recording:
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-2 | (a) | Balancé & cross-over: Couples dance 2 balancés, to R and to L.
Note: all couples begin dancing simultaneously. |
| 3-4 | Couples change places with opposite couple, 2 waltz steps.
Finish turning 1/2 turn CW (over R shoulder). |
|
| 5-8 | Repeat (a) [to return to original place.] | |
| 1-8 | Repeat (a). Finish facing into set. | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Clap & cross-over: With a clap [on first beat] couples cross-over with 4 waltz steps (9-12).
Repeat 3 times (13-16,9-16).
Finish in waltz hold, facing in LOD. |
| |:17-24:| | (c) | Waltz: Couples dance turning waltz twice round opposite couple, 16 waltz steps.
[Odd numbered couples repeat from (a) with next even-numbered couple 'downstream' in the set. Ie, even-numbered couples move up the set, odd-numbered couples move down the set. At the top and bottom of the set, odd-numbered couples become even-numbered, and vice versa.] The dance repeats from (a) until the top odd-numbered couple has returned to its original place, |
Provenance: One of the dances at the Nordic Balls at Nordlek 2012 in Steinkjer, Norway, and at Nordlek 2018 in Falun, Sweden.
Source: documentation prepared for Nordic ball at Nordlek 2012 & 2018.
See also:
-- Dansbókin. Reykjavík: Guðmundur Gamalielsson, 1914. [apparently translated from Danish, which was in turn translated
from an English source published ca 1860]
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2023-06-30.
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