Folk dances with ballroom dance and latin dance (modern old time dance)

Sailor folk dances

Folk dances with basic steps from ballroom dance and latin dance:

tango, quickstep, foxtrot, rumba, cha-cha, samba, jive, mambo, salsa, charleston

 

Table of dances

English main page

CONTENTS  Table of dances

Klik til dansk

Niels Mejlhede Jensen, Bøgeløvsvej 4, 2830 Virum, Denmark. e-mail (web master);    Mejlhede Jensen Family.  

20 examples of the different types of Danish folk dances on my website of 1999: http://www.lavigne.dk/oldfolkdance.

20th-century classic vivid couple dances placed in traditional (Danish) folk dance structures with its predictability and social get together.

By dancing these dances you will in an amusing instructive way get a wide knowledge of the basic steps and the most common moves in ballroom dances and latin dances.

 

General pages

 

Introduction

Why these dances with new basic steps in folk dancing?

Introduction to cha-cha dances

More introduction, from my previous book about why cha-cha in these sailor dances.

Folk dance terms and structures

What is a quadrille, a line dance, a circle, a chain?

Video and literature

Videos and DVDs, and a little from historic literature.

Waltz

About the history of waltz in folk dancing. (Basic waltz? There is no waltz among the 26 dances here).

 

 

Photos for illustrating some of the dance figures

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Photo 4

Photo 5

Photo 6

Photo 7

Photo 8

Cross over break

Lady turn under arm, left

Lady turn under arm, right

Bota foga in

Bota foga out

Lady roll

Figure of 8

Armlock

I hope in the future to be able to illustrate these dances here with instructive videos.

 

 

Table, with links to the dances    

 

no

dance type

dance, name in English

dance, name in Danish

dance steps

 

 

 

 

 

01

Couple, Mixer

Sailor rhinelander

Sømands-rheinlænder

cha-polka

02

Line, 2Couples

Leave

Landlov på Frederikshavnerkajen

cha-cha-cha

03

3 Couples

Seaman triangle

Sømands 3-kant Bermudasuget

cha-cha-cha

04

Quadrille

Plunging quadrille-breaker

Sømands-kvadrille Styrt-søer

cha-cha-cha

05a /

05b

Line = Country

Sailors lined up  / 

Sailors walk the line

Søfolk på række Bråd-søer / 

Søfolk rækker ud

cha-cha-cha

06

Mixer

Dandelion sorceress teat-cover

Blomsterkrans af troldhekser

cha-cha-cha

07

Mixer

Cha-cha trip

Calypsøens vendekreds

cha-cha-cha

08

Mixer

Cha-polka

Tja 2tur

cha-cha-cha

09

Mixer

Tango reverse

Tango venstre2tur

spanish tango

10

Mixer

Tango right

Tango højre2tur

spanish tango

11

Mixer

Tangoing turnover

Tangoens vendekreds

spanish tango

12

Quadrille

Tango-rock

Tango-rokken

spanish tango

13

Mixer

Argentine caprice

Argentiner-lune

argentine tango

14

Line, 2Couples

Argentine air

Argentiner-luft

argentine tango

15

Mixer

Foxy furs

Rævepelse

foxtrot

16

Line, 2Couples

Foxy games

Rævestreger

foxtrot

17

Mixer

Quick trip

Kvik 2tur

quickstep

18

Line, 2Couples

Quicksands

Kviksandet

quickstep

19

Line, 2Couples

Rump awash

Rumben i vandskorpen

social rumba

20

Line, 2Couples

Cuban wriggle

Cuba vrik

european rumba

21

Mixer

Samba hair-pad

Samba valken

samba

22

Mixer

Rocking Spinning Mill

Spinderokken

jive

23

Line, 2Couples

Rocking tooth

Rokke-tanden

rock

24

Mixer

Mambo trip

Mambo 2tur

mambo

25

Quadrille, Mix

Salsita’s mambo-roll

Salsitas mambo-rulle

salsa, mambo

26

Line, 2Couples

Carlson’s Charleston city walk

Carlsons bytur

charleston

 

In mixer dances you get around to new partners. Quadrille dance = square of 4 couples. Line dance = country dance, i.e. 2 lines opposite one another.

Each dance is described in a short summary, as well as in detail referring to the numbered bars of the music notes.

All the dances have music note sheets with the melody for violin and accordion. And notes of a 2’ voice (b voice). And notes for A- and B- clarinet.

The note sheets (should) open in a separate window, for you to open 2 separate windows with dance instruction in one and music note in the other.

The music and dances are free to use for non commercial purposes, for your enjoyment.