Country: Norway
Type: couple dance
Formation: open circle of couples, open waist-shoulder hold, facing in LOD
Steps:
bytomfotsteg frå feiar (change step, forward),
eintaktsnu frå feiar (pivot step),
totaktsnu frå feiar (change step, turning),
häl og tå (heel-toe)
Sheet music: 'tantoli frå Østfold' in:
Semb, Klara/ Norske folkdansar: turdansar. Oslo: Noregs Boklag/Det Norske Samlaget, 1991. pp. 299, 418.
[Note: same tune as
Danish tantoli,
Finnish kaakkuri/kiikuri-kaakkuri/tanttuli and
Swedish tantoli.]
Recordings:
Haltli, Frode Norske turdansar 4 - turdansar frå Austlandet track 25 [YouTube];
Tradisjonsdans i Buskerud 3 - turdans track 20 [YouTube];
Aage Grundstad's Ensemble Norske tur- og folkedanser 2 track 16 [YouTube].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| 1-2 | (a) | Promenade: With weight on inside (MR/WL) foot, couples dance forward in LOD with a häl og tå step, followed by 1 bytomfotsteg. |
| 3-4 | Repeat (a) with opposite footwork. | |
| 1-4 | Repeat (a). | |
| 5-8 | (b) | Polka: Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples take closed waist-shoulder hold and move in LOD, turning CW, with 4 change steps. M begins with a stamp on L foot. |
| 5-8 | Couples dance 8 pivot steps. On steps 7 and 8, M lifts W while turning 1/2 turn CW, to finish by placing partner on his R side. | |
| Repeat from (a) as desired. |
See video from/with Folkedanslaget Springar'n.
Provenance: A schottish variant that occurs in
tantoli [Denmark],
kaakkuri/kiikuri-kaakkuri/tanttuli [Finland],
tantoli [Norway],
tantoli [Sweden] and
former Swedish-speaking islands of Estonia.
Norwegian description first published in the 1925 edition of Norske folkedansar II, with the following note by Semb "I wrote descriptions of
Tantoli, Stoppen, Fingerpolka and Lottistå in Austfold several years ago, but did not include
them in the first edition. These dances were still being commonly danced around the countryside."
Source: Semb, Klara/ Norske folkdansar: turdansar. Oslo: Noregs Boklag/Det Norske Samlaget, 1991. pp. 299, 418.
See also:
-- Semb, Klara/ Norske folkdansar II: rettleiing om dansen. Oslo: Noregs Boklag, 1971. p.263.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-12-06, rev. 2023-08-17.
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