Folk dance from Denmark

2-tur fra Vejle (2-trip from Vejle)
Niels Mejlhede Jensen, Bøgeløvsvej 4, 2830 Virum, Denmark. e-mail (web master)

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Dance description:

 
Animation of the dance

2-tur fra Vejle (2-trip from Vejle)

  • Dance of many couples in a big circle
  • walking steps,  chasse and polka 
  • Introduction to the dance is danced only once: a, b
    • a: bar 1-8: walking the big circle clockwise and anti clockwise
    • b: bar 9-18: chasse and polka + chasse and polka
  • The many times repeated dance is in 2 sections: c, d :
    • c: bar 1-8: chain
    • d: bar 9-18: chasse and polka (= in b)


    (Please note: the animation figure to the left had to be cut down to a minimum because of download time: so the small repetitions are left out).

 

2-tur fra Vejle (2-trip from Vejle) - dance of many couples, all the couples in the ballroom
bar 1-8 circle clockwise All the couples walk around clockwise in a big circle, holding hands; gent + lady: left + right foot pr bar; the hands may circle a little (gents start left hand backwards and right hand forward).
bar 1-8 repeated circle anti clockwise Walk anti clockwise.

(In folk dancing we traditionally say: sun wise ("with" the sun) and contra sun wise ("against" the sun). This comes naturally in a country far to the north with a low sun, like southern Alaska. It is not at all natural in Australia).

The circle is not walked again. The rest of the dance is repeated over and over, as described below.
bar 9-10 couple wise towards center One chasse + go + go (see dance no 5) toward the centre of the ballroom, in couples, normal hold = ordinary position; gent left, lady right foot.
Singing: "One and two and we say hi", raising the joined fore hands towards the centre on "hi".
The first time you dance this with your partner; but later, after the chain, you here have a new partner.
bar 11-12 couplewise away from center One chasse + go + go back again, out from the centre.
bar 13-16 big circle chain Polka around, two rounds
bar 9-18 
(8 bars)		 (no figure) Again towards the centre: chasse and polka of bar 9-16 is repeated.
bar 1-8 big circle chain Chain = grand right and left: gents walk anti clockwise (left foot), ladies clockwise (also left foot), giving first right hand, then left hand, passing by each other.
(Right and left foot is not more important than you have fun; it may be more "funny" then to work it out with the meeting hands, before this music is over).
(bar 1-8) polka in big circle (Chain - to a new partner).
. (no figure) The dance now continues with the "towards the middle" and polka part, now with a new partner (supposedly). And then the chain, and then the polka; the chain, the polka; etc. The walking circle is only an introduction. The dance ends with the polka.

The dance is repeated as long as pleased
 

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