Country: Germany and Austria
Type: couple dance
Formation: any number of couples in open circle, holding inside hands, facing LOD.
Steps:
vals (waltz),
tyrolervals
Sheet music:
(1) Dancilla Wiki Beim Kronenwirt
(2) Vogt, Margrit/ nr 19 in: Alte niederdeutsche Volkstänze.
Münster: F. Coppenrath Verlag, 1986. p.152.
Recordings:
Die Schweizer Musikanten 'Beim Kronenwirt' Bei Uns im Langenthal (2009 Disky Entertainment) [YouTube]
[Note this recording as is does not fit this Danish version of the dance. Use any waltz with appropriate structure, ie AABBCC,A=B=C=8.].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression:
[Bar counts below reflect music as played in the video below, not the sheet music linked above.] |
| 1-2 | (a) | Promenade: Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance 2 travelling waltz steps forward in LOD. |
| 3-4 | M turns CCW [over L shoulder], while W turns CW [over R shoulder], to face RLOD. | |
| 5-8 | Repeat (a), with opposite footwork, moving in RLOD. | |
| 1-8 | Repeat (a).
Finish facing partner in double circle, M facing out of circle, W facing in. |
|
| |:9-16:| | (b) | Clap & turn: Partners face, clap own hands (9), R hands with partner (10), L hands with partner (11), both hands with partner (12).
Couples take 2-hand hold with partner, and turn CW on the spot (13-16), 4 waltz steps. Repeat (b), turning CCW on the spot (9-16). |
| |:17-24:| | (c) | W turn & waltz: Holding outside (ML/WR) hands, W turns CW under joined hands, moving in LOD, while M follows with waltz steps (17-20), 4 waltz steps.
Couples take waltz hold and dance turning waltz moving in LOD (21-24), 4 waltz steps. Repeat (c) (17-24). Repeat from (a) as desired. |
Provenance: A Danish version of a dance common in northern Germany.
See video from/with Herlev Gamle Danse 2022
Source: video Herlev Gamle Danse 2022
See also:
-- Vogt, Margrit/ nr 19 in: Alte niederdeutsche Volkstänze.
(Beiträge zur Volkskultur in Nordwestdeutschland, herausgegeben von der Volkskundlichen Kommission für Westfalen, Landschaftsverband
Westfalen-Lippe, Heft 53) Münster: F. Coppenrath Verlag, 1986. pp. 60, 152.
Description: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2023-08-18.
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