Country: United States of America
See also:
Lotte gick/Lottes død/Laditå/Vrølv i hatten [Danish version],
Raatikko [Finnish version],
Lottistå [Norwegian version],
Laditå/Lott ist tod [Swedish version]
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, waltz hold, M backs to centre, W facing into centre
Steps:
gallop,
sidestep,
waltz à deux temps:
- "1st. Slide the left foot to the left (sideways) and then bring the right foot up close to the left foot in third position. (Count one).
- 2d. Slide the left foot diagonally forward, turn half round on the left foot, and bring the right foot close behind, to the ankle of the left (Count two).
- Then recommence with the right foot and so on alternately.
- The directions for the lady are the same as above, excepting that her feet should be reversed.
- When dancing, the couples may turn either to the right or the left, or dance forward or backward, as they please.
- The Deux Temps should not be danced for a long time without resting as it soon becomes laborious, and where effort is apparent, grace is wanting.
- The position is the same as for the waltz or polka
- To dance the Deux Temps well, it must be danced with short steps, the feet sliding so smoothly over the surface of the
floor that they scarcely seem to be raised above it. Anything like jumping is inadmissible; moreover, though a very quick dance,
it should be danced very quietly and elegantly and every inclination to romp or compete in speed be carefully checked and corrected."
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | Starting with ML/WR foot, dance 4 slow sidesteps forward in LOD. |
| 5-8 | Starting with MR/WL foot, dance 8 quick gallop steps back in RLOD. | |
| 1-8 | Repeat (a). | |
| |:9-16:| | (b) | "Dance the Waltz à Deux Temps, during sixteen bars of music."
[Starting with ML/WR foot, dance 16 polka steps, turning CW as a couple, and moving in LOD.] |
| Repeat from (a) as desired. |
Note: music and lyrics documented in Sachsen and Thüringen, Germany, in 1830.
Source (dance):
Hillgrove, Thomas/A complete practical guide to the art of dancing. Containing descriptions of all fashionable
and approved dances, full directions for calling the figures, the amount of music required; hints on etiquette, the toilet, etc..
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863. pp. 169-170.
Description: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2020-06-18.
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