Country: Gjemnes, Nordmøre, Norway
Type: longways progressive set dance
Formation: sets of 3 couples each, holding inside hands, one behind the other, facing music. From the music, numbered 1, 2, 3.
Steps: running steps or
bytomfotsteg frå polsdan på Nordmøre (change-step)
Sheet music: Semb, Klara Norske folkedansar II: turdansar. Oslo: Noregs Boklag/Det Norske Samlaget, 1991. p. 339. (NFII 1991).
See a different version in [John Chambers abc collection].
Recordings:
Hiksnes, Arild Gilleråsen, Gjemnes, Nordmøre
Norske folkedansar: turdansar frå Vestlandet (Grappa 1998) track 04.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | Beginning with a stamp on beat (1:1), and beginning on outside (ML/WR) foot, all retire with 12 small running steps. |
| 1-4 | Beginning with a stamp on beat (1:1), and beginning on outside (ML/WR) foot, all advance with 12 small running steps.
Finish with couple 1 (closest to music) dropping hold and facing partner. |
|
| 5-8 | (b) | With a stamp on beat (5:1) couple 1 crosses, dance outside couple 2 (M1 CW around W2, and W1 CCW around M2), cross again, and dance outside couple 3 (M1 CCW around M3, and W1 CW around W3) to finish at the end of the set, ie in order couples 2-3-1, holding inside hands. 12 running steps. |
| 5-8 | Beginning with a stamp on beat (5:1), and beginning on outside (ML/WR) foot, all advance with 12 small running steps.
On the last 2 steps, couple 2 turns individually to face couple 3, and hold inside (MR/WL) hands. |
|
| 9-24 | (c) | Couple 2 forms and arch which couple 3 dances under, then couple 1 forms an arch which couple 2 dances under, etc. Ie end couples form arches, couple in
the centre dances under the arches. At the ends, couples turn individually to face the set and hold 'new' inside hands.
When couples have danced under the arches formed by the other two couples twice, and returned to their original position at the beginning of the arches, they have done one full set of arches. Repeat arches twice, without stopping. 48 running steps. |
| Repeat from (a) with a new couple 1, as desired.
Note: at each repeat, a different couple becomes couple 1. |
See YouTube videos with Folkedanslaget Springar'n (2x dip & dive), Folkedanslaget Springar'n (3x dip & dive), Pargas Folkdansare.
Note: this was one of the combined dances for Nordlek 2009 in Lahtis.
Provenance: First published in Leikarvollen 1928:483 under the name 'tritur frå Nordmøre', description by Johan P. Kvalvåg (1874-1968), Tingvoll. In the 1948 edition of NFII, the following instruction was included: "you can do as you like with the free hand, either holding it on your hip or not, but of course all should do the same".
Printed sources:
Semb, Klara Norske folkedansar II: turdansar. Oslo: Noregs Boklag/Det Norske Samlaget, 1991. pp. 101-102, 339. (NFII 1991)
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-06-14
Tillbaka till innehållsförteckningen/Back to table of contents