Modern folk dance
with ballroom dance steps and latin dance steps
Sailor
rhinelander
Golfstrømeren
(Golf tram), Calyp-søer (Calypso waves) |
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Steps: (Cha-cha-cha);
walk walk 1 chasse; rock polka
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Couple dance, mixer |
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Music
notes in pdf format, Golfstrømeren |
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Calypsøer |
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Jesuita cha-cha-cha |
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Topics on this page |
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Our sailor has been to
We dance for the pleasure so you are free to select a
relaxed informal hold etc.
Maybe we dance on a pitching ship floor, ship deck
(this is possible on some passenger boats). This gives a bouncing feeling in
body and hips.
Some fiddlers e.g. from the island Læsø played for
dancing on the ship deck when they were sailors.
(A traditional Danish rhinelander dance is described with
animation figures in dance week 5 on my website of 1999 now placed on: http://www.lavigne.dk/oldfolkdance)
Dance description
Start: all couples stand in the line of
dance (lod) after one another: Lady (L) to the right of Gent (G).
Short description:
Dance in
2 parts:
1a
walk walk forward + 1side-chasse
1b
walk walk forward against lod + 1side-chasse
2a
rock rock + turn-chasse ½ turn
2b
rock rock + turn-chasse ½
turn
Description in detail:
bar no in melody Golfstrømeren
1 Lady (L) left hand (lh) in Gent
(G) right hand (rh): 2 walk steps forward (G: lf, rf, L: rf, lf).
2 Turning to face each other: 1
chasse (G: lf rf lf, L: rf lf rf).
3 L rh in G lh: walk against line
of dance (lod) 2 steps (G: rf lf, L: lf rf).
4 Turning to face each other: 1
chasse.
5 Close hold, feet apart: weight on
front foot (G: lf, L: rf),
then weight on the other foot
(you ”rock” or “wave” a little as a couple).
6 1 chasse with ½ couple turn.
7-8 Rock + ½ chasse-turn on the opposite
side.
Dance steps and dance figures:
The dance is fast so small steps.
If you feel like it then a little cha-cha-cha waving
in the hips (the floor is pitching (on a ship)).
Usual rhinelander-polka is
danced: 1 chasse + walk walk
Here in Sailor-rhinelander we
dance: walk walk + 1 chasse
Chasse we have on the characteristic cha-cha-cha in
the music.
Cha-cha-cha is here in the melody Golfstrømeren on the
3 notes in bar 2, bar 4, etc. see the figure just below.
Cha-cha-cha is in traditional cha-cha-cha melodies in
4/4 measure ”across the bar line” on count 4, 4½, 1, see Jesuita melody.
The tempo is faster than polka. So it fits to stand
and bounce the legs and wave the hips.
(It is up to you how much you want to move your hips.
Find your style. The important thing is to enjoy yourself).
Sailor-rhinelander
dance-description note for note:
gå: go = walk, vug: rock, for-fod: front foot, bag-fod: hind foot, drej:
turn
Herre:
walk as in rhinelander forward and turn and walk back; common
close hold rock and turn around
Variations, mixer dance in sailor-rhinelander
Variation 1: turn away from each other:
1a
walk walk forward + 1 chasse starting to turn away from
each other
1b
walk walk back in a curve away from each other + 1 chasse
towards each other
2a
rock rock + turn-chasse ½ turn
2b
rock rock + turn-chasse ½
turn
Variation 2: forward:
1a
walk walk forward + 1 chasse forward
1b
walk walk forward + facing each other 1 chasse to the side
back
2a
rock rock + turn-chasse ½ turn
2b
rock rock + turn-chasse ½
turn
Mixer:
Gent dances variation 1 and Lady variation 2;
so when G turn his back to L to curve back, L walks
forward to the next G. (Or opposite for G and L)
For the 4 melody lines you can choose:
1
basic sailor-rhinelander
2
variation 1
3
variation 2
4
mixer
or
only 1 and 4.
Music
Accordion: 2 + 2
beats pr bar in 2/4; and 4 + 4 pr bar in 4/4 (foreslår jeg (som start) fordi
det her er en dansk melodi, (dog med fremmed accent)).
Double bass marks beat 1 as in usual Danish folk
dance, and lighter rhythm instruments beat 2.
You find your own style, maybe with Caribbean touch.
3 melodies are attached: Golfstrømeren, Calyp-søer,
and Jesuita. Golfstrømeren is for easy learning the dance. Jesuita is for
including a true cha-cha-cha melody with start of dance on beat 2 instead of
beat 1, which I not use otherwise (see though rhumba in dance 20 Cuban Wriggle).
Video
There are many dance instruction videos with
cha-cha-cha, see video list.