Country: Ofoten, Norway
Type: set dance for four, six or eight couples
Formation: 4-6-8 couples in a quadrille. Head couples stand with backs to or facing music. Side couples stand to right or left of head couples.
Steps: bytomfotsteg frå feiar (change step),
sluttsteg (step close), walk, waltz
Sheet music: Trondheimar/feiar med vals from the manuscript sheet music of
Daniel Hægstad, Lødingen [documentation provided by Nordlek 2018] or
<http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Norway/misc/FeiarMedVals1/0000>
Recordings:
Egeland, Ånon & Susanne Lundeng Norske turdansar II frå Agder Og Nord-Norge track 23
[YouTube];
Grundstad, Aage Norske tur- og folkedanser track 6 [YouTube].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| :1-8: | (a) | All take waltz hold with partner, and dance turning waltz half-way round the set, finishing diagonally across from start position. On last beats, reforming the quadrille formation. 16 waltz steps. |
| 9-12 | (b) | Head couples advance, beginning with L foot with 2 short walking steps, and a sluttsteg (step L, touch R; 9-10). On closing R to L, courtesy to opposite couple.
Head couples retire with 2 walking steps and a sluttsteg, beginning with R foot (11-12). |
| 9-12 | Side couples repeat (b). | |
| :13-16: | (c) | All dance R-hand chain, beginning with L foot, to first meeting with partner. 8 chassé steps.
Finish in original place. |
| Repeat from (a) as desired. | ||
| Can also be danced with 4 or 6 couples. In a 6-couple set, 2 couples on each head couple side, and one couple on each side couple side. In the waltz, couples change places with the diagonally opposite couple, as above, and return to original place in the chain.
When the set consists of only 4 couples, heads and sides consist of only one couple each, so that each couple returns to original place in the waltz. They also chain around the full set and return to place. |
Provenance: a description of the dance was first published in Nynorsk Vikeblad nr. 6 1934:34. The same music is used for both a couple dance and a quadrille.
In order to distinguish between the two dances, the couple dance was called 'feiar med vals' and the quadrille 'Trondheimar', or 'Bergenser' as it is also called, in the introduction to the 1952 edition
of Klara Semb's Norske folkedansar - turdansar.
Sources:
-- Semb, Klara/ Norske folkedansar - turdansar. Oslo: Noregs Boklag/Det Norske samlaget, 1991. pp. 198-200.
-- Norwegian documentation provided by Nordlek 2018.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-08-28.
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