Country: Holt, Aust-Agder, Norway
Type: set dance
Formation: sets of 2 couples facing, in closed circles, hands at shoulder height. When appropriate, free hand(s) at waist, thumbs back, fingers forward.
Steps: krossteg (cross behind),
figurersteg med tre trin (with 3 lifts (SSS)).
Sheet music:
(1) Semb, Klara/ Norske folkedansar - turdansar. Oslo: Noregs Boklag/Det Norske samlaget, 1991. p. 362.
(2) Semb, Klara/ Norske folkdansar III: slåttar til turdansane. Oslo: Noregs Boklag, 1970. p.30.
(3) documentation for Nordlek 2024.
[Part B is same as part A of rakes of London,
aka rakes of Mallow or Marlow(e), etc., earliest dated to 1733]
Recordings:
Egeland, Ånon & Susanne Lundeng Norske turdansar 2 - turdansar frå Agder og Nord-Norge track 11
{YouTube];
for Nordlek 2024.
| Bars | Part | Dance progression |
| |:1-4:| | 1 (a) | Ring (circle): In closed circle, all circle CW, 6 L krossteg followed by 3 stamps L-R-L (1-4). Ditto 6 R krossteg CCW, and stamps R-L-R. |
| |:5-8:| | (b) | Figurering (figuré): All drop hold and face partner, hands at waist (thumbs back, fingers forward).
Begin with weight on R foot, dance 4 figurersteg on the spot (5-8). On the last beat of bar 8, all pivot a 3/4 turn on R foot, M turning R (CW) and
W turning L (CCW), to finish facing opposite.
All dance 4 figurersteg facing opposite, with same footwork [ie beginning with weight on R foot (5-8)]. |
| |:1-4:| | 2 (a) | Mølle (1-hand star): All form R-hand star with thumb hold (M with M, W with W, M's hands over,
W hands under), and free hand on waist as above. All face centre of set, leaning slightly back. Beginning with L foot, circle CW, 6 L krossteg followed by 3 stamps (1-4).
Ditto in L-hand star CCW, 6 R-krossteg followed by 3 stamps (1-4). |
| |:5-8:| | (b) | Figurering (figuré): repeat (1 (b)). |
| |:1-4:| | 3 (a) | Mølle (2-hand star): All form 2-hand star, M's hands over, W hands under. Beginning with L foot, circle CW, 6 L krossteg followed by 3 stamps (1-4).
Ditto CCW, 6 R-krossteg followed by 3 stamps (1-4). |
| |:5-8:| | (b) | Figurering (figuré): repeat (1 (b)). |
| |:1-4:| | 4 (a) | Klap & ring (clap & circle): All drop hold, still facing centre of set.
Beginning with L foot, circle CW, 6 L krossteg followed by 3 stamps (1-4).
Meanwhile, L hand is slightly extended with palm up, and with R hand palm down, clap hands with each step.
Ditto CCW, 6 R-krossteg followed by 3 stamps (1-4). |
| |:5-8:| | (b) | Figurering (figuré): repeat (1 (b)). |
| |:1-4:| | 5 (a) | Ring (closed circle): the dance finishes with a repeat of (1 (a)),
Note: this last sequence is NOT followed by a Figurering (1 (b)), |
See videos from/with Folkedanslaget Springar'n 2015; Go'foten og & Byttomfoten with Farande Fant 2016; Dansarar frå Tragder 2023 for Nordlek 2024 .
Provenance: A notebook by Klara Semb contains a first description, likely written in 1941, based on information from Marta Håvardson Langtvedt (born 1866), Holt, It was first published in the 1948 edition of Norske folkedansar II - turdansar. Egil Bakka conducted field research in Landvik in 1967 and 1969, and recorded a video of four dancers dancing the totur. Steps in parts (a) and (b) have been the subject of variation and revision. The tune was first published in the 1952 edition of Norske folkedansar III - slåtter, also based on information from Marta Håvardson Langtvedt, who had learned the tune in her youth from the elderly Tordis Bertrand. One of the combined dances at Nordlek 2024 in Arendal, Norway.
Source: Semb, Klara/ Norske folkedansar - turdansar. Oslo: Noregs Boklag/Det Norske samlaget, 1991. pp. 164-167. [also at
Nordlek 2024 website].
See also:
-- Semb, Klara/ Norske folkdansar II: rettleiing om dansen. Oslo: Noregs Boklag, 1971. pp. 177-179.
-- Danserettleiingar - Turdans n.d.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-09-05, rev. 2023-11-08.
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