Country: Sweden
Type: couple dance
Formation: open circle of couples, open waist-shoulder hold, facing in LOD
Steps:
hoppsteg (step-hop),
häl och tå (heel-toe),
schottissteg (schottish promenade step),
sidsteg (side step),
tresteg (change step),
step-swing
Note: the schottish step is danced swinging free foot forward and back on beat (4) of the bar so that the
backward schottish step can begin on beat (1) of the following bar.
Sheet music:
(1) Karlson, Gustaf (ed.)/ Svenska folkdanser och sällskapsdanser. 3:e uppl. Stockholm: Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur, 1944. p. 166.
(2) Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Musik till gillesdanser i Norden: fiol. Stockholm: Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur, 1970. p. 33.
(3) Bryans, Helen L. & John Madsen/ Scandinavian dances. Book II. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1942, pp. 18-19.
[Note: same tune as
Danish tantoli,
Finnish kaakkuri/kiikuri-kaakkuri/tanttuli and
Norwegian tantoli]
Recordings:
Bröderna Almkvist Våra populäraste gilledanser track B6 ((Roldex - RXLP-141) 1981);
Burns, Joseph V. & Edith S. Wheeler [Internet archive];
Ek, Lars med orkester Gilledanser track A3 ((Round Up – LPRO 35) 1976);
Gunnar Hahn and his Folk Dance Orchestra Swedish folk dances track A5 ((RCA Records – LPM 9837) 1959);
Gunnar Hahns Folkdansorkester Vol 3 track A2 (RCA – EPS 95) 1958;
Johansson, Allan Vid Hällungens strand [YouTube];
Michael Herman's Folk Dance Orchestra (RCA Victor (LPM 1621) 1958) [Internet archive];
Prince's Band (Columbia (A-3054) 1914) [Internet archive];
Victor Band (RCA Victor (20992-B) 1927) [Internet archive];
Åsapärs På Liseberg track B7 ((Karusell - 2942 011) 1975);
| Bars | Sequence | Dance progression |
| 1-2 | 1 (a) | Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance forward with 2 step-hops, followed by turning CW with 2 step-hops. |
| 3-8 | Repeat (a) 3 times. | |
| 9-12 | (b) | Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance forward in LOD with 1 schottish step.
Ditto backward in RLOD, beginning with inside (MR/WL) foot, with 1 schottish step (9-10).
Couples turn twice round with 4 step-hops (11-12). |
| 13-16 | Repeat (b).
Note: open waist-shoulder hold throughout. |
|
| 1-4 | 2 (a) | Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, couples dance forward with
1 heel-toe step with inside foot stretched forward with heel to the floor, then back with toe to the floor (1-2),
followed by 1 change step forward in LOD (3-4).
Note: when heel is stretched forward, weight-bearing knee is slightly bent. |
| 5-8 | Repeat (a). | |
| 9-16 | (b) | Couples take waltz hold, and beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, turn with
[16]step-hops, moving in LOD.
On the first step-hop move joined (ML/WR) arms down, and on the second up, then alternatingly down and up with each step hop. Finish in a double circle, M facing out with arms crossed on chest, W facing in with hands on hips. |
| 1-4 | 3 (a) | Beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, sll dance 3 side steps moving in LOD followed by a step-swing with a stamp (1-2),
Ditto moving in RLOD (3-4).
Note: couples face throughout. |
| 5-8 | Repeat (a). | |
| 9-16 | (b) | Repeat (2 (b)). |
| 1-2 | 4 (a) | Couples take open waist-shoulder hold, and, beginning with outside (ML/WR) foot, dance forward in LOD with 1 schottish step (1). Ditto backward in RLOD, beginning with inside (MR/WL) foot, with 1 schottish step (2). |
| 3-4 | All lift outside (ML/WR) knee, and swing lower leg forward and back twice (3).
With outside lower leg swung back, touch toes to floor 3 times (4). |
|
| 5-8 | Repeat (4 (a)). | |
| 9-16 | (b) | Repeat (2 (b)). |
| Lyrics - from Västmanland:
Jag och min flicka vi skulle dansa polka. När vi kom opp så var det Tantoli. Min flicka kunde dansa, men jag kunde inte. Å därför så va de ju bäst låta bli. Tralalalala tralala lalala Gordon Tracie's translation:
|
See YouTube video from Gammaldansarnas Riksförbund (GRF) 2000.
Provenance: A schottish variant that occurs in
tantoli [Denmark],
kaakkuri/kiikuri-kaakkuri/tanttuli [Finland],
tantoli [Norway],
tantoli [Sweden], and the
former Swedish-speaking islands of Estonia.
Some of the above sequences were known as Finsk Tantoli (Finnish tantoli). The dance with several
sequences has been documented in central Sweden. The dance was frequently accompanied by singing, such as
the lyrics above from Västmanland.
Source: Karlson, Gustaf (ed.)/ Svenska folkdanser och sällskapsdanser. 3:e uppl. Stockholm: Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur, 1944. p. 24.
See also:
-- Acla tantoli
-- Burchenal, Elizabeth
Dances of the people : a second volume of Folk-dances and singing games; containing twenty-eight folk-dances of the United States, Ireland, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Switzerland....
New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1913. p.47.
-- Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Samkväms och gillesdanser. Stockholm: Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur, 1965. pp. 45-46
-- Bidstrup, Georg/ Singing games and folk dances.
Brasstown NC: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1941. pp. 34-35.
-- Bryans, Helen L. & John Madsen/ Scandinavian dances. Book II. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1942, pp. 18-19.
-- Tracie, Gordon
Stockton Folk Dance Camp syllabus 1964 pp. 73-74.
Translation (based on Karlson): Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2021-12-06, rev. 2023-08-17.
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