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- Scandinavian Dances
- Scandinavian Dancers of Vancouver B.C. Society
- Scandinavian Dancers of Vancouver - Where we dance - Scandinavian Community Centre, 6540 Thomas Street, Burnaby V5B 4P9, Phone 294-2777
- Wednesday (Sept-April) - Classes 19h30-20h45, Requests 21h00-22h00?, Membership $85/year or $8/session
- Second Wednesday Live Music Night - Victoria Drive Community Hall (upstairs), 2026 E 43rd Avenue, Vancouver, just east of Victoria Drive - Live music
- ScandiPerformers - YouTube
- Segasovitch - YouTube
- Dances in Weekly Sessions in Vancouver, BC
- Workshops in Vancouver, BC - List of all dances
- Silk Road Festival | Scandinavian Dancers of Vancouver - Silk Road Festival
- Purpurit - a Finnish Canadian Folk Dance Group sponsored by the Vancouver Finlandia Club
- Zoom dance demos - YouTube - 2020
- 2004 SDoV Performance - YouTube
- Cordray.no - Norwegian dance - List of video sources - Alix Cordray
- Dansvideo
- FACoNE - Folk Arts Center of New England
- Folk Dance Federation of California
- FolkDancing.com
- Folklore Village
- WI
- Leif Virtanen - YouTube
- Nordic Dancers NW
- Scandinavian Dances - YouTube
- Seattle Skandia FolkDance Society | skandia-folkdance.org
- W - 19h30-21h00 - Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, room 2 (upper building)
- R - 19h30-21h00 - Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, room 32 (brick building)
- F (1st&3rd Friday) - 19h30-23h00 - Cedar Valley Grange, 20526-52nd Ave. West, Lynnwood - Live music
- Skandia Folkdance Special Events
- FSGW = Folklore Society of Greater Washington (DC)
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- Norsk Folkdans Stemne - Camp - August in Fort Worden / Port Townsend, WA - ~US$500/person
- TLD - DK Denmark, FI Finland, NO Norway, SE Sweden
- Music
- Ä and Å have been placed at the beginning of the alphabet instead of at the end, as Real Scandinavians would do.
- Ærø mollevit - see Mollevit
- Ajle-majns-totur -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Ann Katrinns støkk', Viborgegnen -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Atabakspolska = Atabak-polska = Ätabak-polska - a left-foot polskor - see Polska
- Älvdalspolska - Polska från Ålvdalen - See Left-foot Polskor - Ålvdalens polska - see Polska
- Bakmes
- Bakmes Variations -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Bakmes frän Kall -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Polska och Bakmes från Oviken -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Polska och Slängpolsk från Övre Klarälvsdalen - see Polska
- Bakmes från Ragunda
- Bette Mett', Mars & Thy -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Bodapolska - See right-foot Polska
- Bøhmerdans, Vendsyssel -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Boot Scootin - traditional Finnish dance?
- Busserull - YouTube
- Cylinder Kontra - YouTube
- Den gamel ottetur paa langs, Thy -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Den toppede høne, Vendsyssel -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Dronningens dans, Nordfyn | Last of the sequence: Totur, Tretur, Firetur, Halvfemtetur, Femtur, Tolvtur, Dronningenslivstykke -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Engelska
- Engelska for tre par - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQRDV7vOfBI
- Engelska - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAjtETLdeOs
- Engelska fran Stigtomta -||- see SaltSpring 2005
- Engelska Från Bohusiän -||- see SDV Workshop 2006
- Engalska från Norbotten (Mixer) -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Familiedans -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Familjevalsen -||- see Waltz
- Figaro der alle dansar -||- see SDV Workshop 2012
- Finnskogspols = Polsdans fra Finnskogen - see Polska
- Finsk Bakma -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Firetur fra Varde, Denmark
- Firtur fr Varde - YouTube - Scandiperformers Vancouver, BC
- Firetur fra Varde, Denmark
- Firetur fra Varde - YouTube
- Roskilde Spillemandslaug - "Firtur fra Varde" - YouTube
- Firetur, Thy | Third of the sequence: Totur, Tretur, Firetur, Halvfemtetur, Femtur, Tolvtur, Dronningenslivstykke -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Set of dances: Tretur, Totur fra Hanemose, Firtur/Firetur/Firetur fra Valse -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Galop kontra - YouTube
- Gammal Finlandssvensk Vals (Mixer) -||- see Waltz
- Gammalpolska - See Polska
- Gammalt fra Bryne -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Gammlvänster från Oviken -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Gangar fra Setesdal -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Giljerosen -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Haj Zelenenky -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Hallingspringar -||- see SDV Workshop 2006
- Halvfemtetur
- Hambo - See Polska
- Hambo - a right-foot polskor
- Hambo (Sweden) = Hambopolska | Folk Dance Musings - http://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/2014/01/hambo-sweden.html
- Hambo -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Hambo från Hagforstrakten -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Hambo - Polkettering, Hambo och Bakmes från Lillhärdal - see Lillhardal
- Hambo Från Oviken -||- see SDV Workshop 2017
- Hambo & Hambo Mixer -||- see SaltSpring 2005
- Hambo från Hagforstrakten -||- see see SDV Workshop 2005 (notes)
- Hälsingehambon 2017 final huvudklassen - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYXfEKmF1J0
- Hambo - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCsTS5GDkvE
- Hambo - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GehGejNtGZY
- Sammenspil set includes Hambo
- Hambo med Vals från Järvsö
- Hambopolska
- Hopsa -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Humppa Promenad
(mixer)
- Hyfs (polka) - see Polkett
- Jans'n -||- see SDV Workshop 2000
- Jydsk på næesen -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Kerenski -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Kontra med mølle, Vejleegnen -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Krossadans med Tre -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Langdans fran Solleron -||- see SaltSpring 2004
- Lappakatrilli -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Les Lanciers - See Quadrilles
- Lillhardal = Lillhärdal | Little Hairball (Polketeering, hambo & bakmes från Lillhärdal)
- Louvnasschottis - see Schottis
- Mazurka
- Mellem kagel og æ væg, Thy Song -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Mellparing = a mellow schottis variant
- Minuet
- Menuett - Vörå Menuett och Polska (Orivesi) -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Menuett (med Polska) från Nagu -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Menuett från Nagu (group) -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Menuett - Lang menuet, Væggerløse -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Mollevit (minuet) | menuet/mollevet/mollevit/monevit (Danish) | menuett (Finnish) | menuet (Swedish)
- Mollevit - Ærø mollevit -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Mollevit - Kontra med mollevit -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Mollevit, Midsummer 2016 - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_lxhRkFH1A
- Mollevit fra Ærø - Danish - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cd0SQ4d9yw
- Mollevit fra Ærø - Danish - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It43bOmGf0E
- Mollevet
- Steps
- Danced to 3/4 time music. Originally it was a couple dance. When many couples are dancing, they are in lines, M in one line facing their partners in the opposite line.
- M and W do same step at same time but with same footwork:
- R forward (1), close L to R (2), L forward (3), R forward (4), L forward (5), close R to L (6). The mollevet/mollevit step is danced with more lift ('svikt') than a menuet step)
- One menuet/mollevet/mollevit step is danced over two bars of music. The basic forms are:
- Forward step: R forward (1), close L to R without weight (2), L forward (3), R a little past L foot (4), L a little past R foot (5), close R to L without weight (6).
Backward step: like forward step, but backwards.
On the spot: R back (1), close L to R (2), L back (3), R forward (4), L forward (5), while turning body to R and closing R to L foot (6)
Turn step: R forward with a nod on passing partner (1), close L to R while beginning half-turn over L shoulder, with weight remaining on R foot (2), L beside R (3), R forward (4), L forward while turning to R (so that L side is to opposite dancer's L side) (5), close R to L without weight(6).
- These basic forms are combined in various sequences. Most minuets consist of an introduction (often only danced by the head couple), the basic pattern repeated a number of times, an intermezzo ('middain'), the basic pattern again repeated a number of times, and an ending ('kveeldin').
- Nikongestykket = Rigadon med 3 mandspersoner og 6 fruentimmer -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Nordlandspols - - see Polska
- Norskleitjen
- Norskleitjen -||- see SDV Workshop 2000
- Norskleitjen -||- see see SDV Workshop 2005 (notes)
- Ny Berliner -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Orsa Polska - See Polska
- Otte mands
- Otte mands dans -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Otte mands reel, Roskildeegnen -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Otte mands reel, Roskildeegnen -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Oulun Pojat -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Ovreklaralvsdalen - see Polska
- See: Polska och Slängpolsk från Övre Klarälvsdalen -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Pidatysoolkka -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Polka
- See also: international.htm ...
- Tokyo Polka Line Dance = Eva's Polka -|- USA - by Richard Powers
- Loituma's Polka = Leva's Polka = Ievan's Polkka = Ievan Polka = Ievan Polkka
- See also: international.htm ...
- Finnish Polka = Finnish Polkka = Suomalainen -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Polka och Bakmes från Kall - PDF - Gill Gooch 1999
- Polka och Bakmes från Kall - Stockton Folk Dance Camp
- Polka och Bakmes från Kall - YouTube
- Polka med Bakmess fra Kall -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Polka och Bakmes från Kall -||- see SDV Workshop 2007
- Polka - Ordinary Polka -||--||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Polka - Rheinlænder Polka -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Polka - Rheinlaender polka/Fynbo -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Polka - Saksanpolkka or Tyyska -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Polka - Seattle Polka -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Polka - Finnish Polkka -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Polka - Ameriikan Polkka -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Polka - Polkkakättönen -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Pariser Polka
- Seattle Polka -||- see SaltSpring 2005
- Polkett
- Polska
(pols; plural = polskor)
- See also: Balkmes
- Järvsöpolska = Jarvsopolska
- Polska -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Polska Alfta-Albrå/Hläsingland - YouTube
- M's and W's footwork in couple turn is very similar to Bingsjö.
- Most couples are using standard polska hold throughout; one or two men may be placing R fist under W's left elbow, as described in some written sources.
- Note the resting step (polska hold, M walking forward and W backward, stepping on beats 1 and 3).
- Polska - Atabakspolska -||- see SDV Workshop 2000
- Polska - Bingsjo Polska - a left-foot polskor - see Polska
- Polska - Boda polska - see Right-Foot Polskor
- Polska - Bondpolska från Överhärde -||- see see SDV Workshop 2005 (notes)
- Polska - Gammalpolska - see Polska Left-foot Polskor
- Polska - Gammalvänster = Polska och Bakmes från Oviken -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Polska - Korpin Polska -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Polska - Polska efter Ture Bäckstam -||- see SDV Workshop 2016
- Polska - Polska från Årnot -||- see SDV Workshop 2009
- Polska - Polska från Ålvdalen - Ålvdalens polska - Älvdalspolska - See Left-foot Polskor
- Polska - Polska och Bakmes från Kall -||- see SDV Workshop 2007
- Polska - Polska och Bakmes från Övre Klarälvsdalen -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Polska - Polska och Slängpolsk från Övre Klarälvsdalen -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Polska - Rättvik polska - a left-foot polskor
- Polska - Rupolska -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Polska - Rupolska -||- see see SDV Workshop 2005 (notes)
- Polska - Slängpolska Från Småland -||- see SDV Workshop 2009
- Polska - Slängpolska Från Gryt -||- see SDV Workshop 2006
- Polska - Slängpolska Från Vikbolandet -||- see SDV Workshop 2006
- Polska - Slängpolska från Malung -||- see SDV Workshop 2014
- Polska - Storhurveln (Svängpolska) from Funäsdalen -||- see SDV Workshop 2017
- Polska - Vörå Menuett och Polska (Orivesi) -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Right-foot Polskor = Man's weight is on R foot on beat 1 of the turn
- Hambo - See Hambo
- Boda Polska = Bodapolska - a right-foot polskor
- Orsa Polska - a right-foot polskor
- Left-foot Polskor = Man's weight is on L foot on beat 1 of the turn
- Ålvdalens polska = Alvdalens polska = Polska från Ålvdalen = Älvdalspolska (NOT Alvadens or Ålvadens) - a left-foot polskor
- Åtabaks Polska = Atabaks Polska = Åtabakspolska = Atabakspolska - a left-foot polskor
- Gammalpolska från Föllinge = Föllinge Gammalpolska - a left-foot polskor
- Rättvik polska = Rättvikpolska - [Rattvik polska = Rattvikpolska] - a left-foot polskor
- Bingsjöpolska - [Bingsjopolska] - a left-foot polskor
- Also: Bingsjöpolska polska & Rørospols in Lilla 'Lag set
- Bingsjo Polska -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Polskor från Bingsjö - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g15pTfr0ZzA
- Bingsjöpolska - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yOMr01zK3M
- Other Polskor
- Sønderhoning - [Sonderhoning]
- Gammalskils polska / Slangpolska
- Finnskogspols = Polsdans fra Finnskogen
- Nordlandspols
- Rørospols - [Rorospols] = Røros pols
- Not Polskor
- Gothenburg Mazurka - See Mazurka
- Mellparing = a mellow schottis variant -|- See Mellparing
- Stabberinglender = a peppy reinlender variant
- Short First Beat Polska : an Overview - Scandi Folk Nerd - Emilie Waldken - YouTube
- Quadrilles
- Raatikko -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Reinlender
- Rheinlaender polka/Fynbo -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Reinlender - Østerdals reinlender -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Reinlender Fran Fosen -||- see SDV Workshop 2006
- Reinlender with wrap mixer. 1st part -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Knut Arne's Reinlender -||- see SDV Workshop 2017
- Røros Ringlender -||- see SDV Workshop 2016
- Røros Ringlender -- Variation -||- see SDV Workshop 2017
- Røros Ringlender - [Roros Ringlender]
- Rigadon med 3 mandspersoner og 6 fruentimmer = Nikongestykket -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Rørospols - see Polska
- Rupolska - see Polska
- Saksanpolkka or Tyyska -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Salty Dog Rag - USA ...
- Sandsværril -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Schottis
- Modern Schottis -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Gammal Schottis -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Schottis fran Hammerdal -||- see SaltSpring 2004
- Schottis fran Viksta, "German Polska" -||- see SaltSpring 2004
- Scandinavian Schottische: Five variations & -||- see SaltSpring 2005
- Sex-Change, Four-Handed & Sick-Sack Schottis -||- see SaltSpring 2005
- Schottis - Jans'n variations -- schottis -||- see SDV Workshop 2000
- Louvnasschottis -||- see SDV Workshop 2000
- Löuvnässchottis -||- see see SDV Workshop 2005 (notes)
- Schottis - Löuvnässchottis -||- see SDV Workshop 2006
- Schottis med Bakmes från Kall -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Schottis och Bakmes från Kall -||- see SDV Workshop 2007
- Schottis från Ovanmyra -||- see SDV Workshop 2014
- Schottis - Jubileums Schottis = Changing Schottis from Värmland -||- see SDV Workshop 2014
- Schottis från Oviken -||- see SDV Workshop 2016
- Schottis från Boda -||- see SDV Workshop 2017
- Schottis fran Oviken
- Schottis - MP3 live at Ransäterstämman 2008 - YouTube - Reiländer -
- Schottis efter Hakberg - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=witQChVTSi4 - music only
- Seattle Polka -||- see Polks
- Senpolska
- Sex-Change ||- see Schottis
- Silia Valssi -||- see SDV Workshop 1999
- Silloin mä Leikin -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Själaskuttan -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Smygvals
- Snoa
- Sønderborg Dobbelt Kvadrille
- [Sonderborg Dobbelt Kvadrille]
- Sønderhoning - [Sonderhoning] - See Polska
- Spinnrocken
- Springdans
- Springdans fra Hadeland -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Springdans fra Land -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Springdans fra Hadeland -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Springdans fra Rogaland (Soldal) -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Springedans frän Hogdal -||- see see SDV Workshop 2005 (notes)
- Springgar fra Sunfjord -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Springleik
- Stabberinglender
- Stegvals = Stigvals - see Waltz
- Stigar = Stigaren -||- see SDV Workshop 2012
- Storhurveln (Svängpolska) from Funäsdalen -||- see SDV Workshop 2017
- Swede-Finn Mixer -||- see SaltSpring 2005
- Swedish Bugg Line Dance - Bugg is a totally Swedish swing dance form and is very popular on Swedish dancefloors when dance bands play.
- Tango - Finnish Tango -||- see SDV Workshop 1999
- Teleganger -||- see SDV Workshop 2007
- Telespringar
- Totur fra Vejle | First of the sequence: Totur, Tretur, Firetur, Halvfemtetur, Femtur, Tolvtur, Dronningenslivstykke -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Set of dances: Tretur, Totur fra Hanemose, Firtur/Firetur/Firetur fra Valse -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Tretur, Thy | Second of the sequence: Totur, Tretur, Firetur, Halvfemtetur, Femtur, Tolvtur, Dronningenslivstykke -||- see SDV Workshop 2011
- Set of dances: Tretur, Totur fra Hanemose, Firtur/Firetur/Firetur fra Valse -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Trekant fra Horsens -||- see SDV Workshop 2015
- Trepolska - YouTube
- Vågå -||- see SDV Workshop 2012
- Valdresspringar -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Vindeliska = Vengerka -||- see SDV Workshop 2008
- Vingelvals -||- see SaltSpring 2004
- Vossarull
- Vossaspringar = Springar fra Voss -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Waltz
- Stegvals -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Stegvals frä Foling -||- see SDV Workshop 2000
- Stigvals från Kall -||- see SDV Workshop 2001
- Stigvals och Bakmes från Kall -||- see SDV Workshop 2007
- Familjevalsen -||- see SaltSpring 2005
- Gammal Finlandssvensk Vals (Mixer) -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Waltz -||- see 1995.Scandinavian.Beginner.Couple.Dances.DVD
- Waltz - Hesitation Waltz fra Vågå -||- see SDV Workshop 1998
- Waltz - Jans'n variations -- vals -||- see SDV Workshop 2000
- Waltz - Perhevalssl (Family Waltz) -||- see SDV Workshop 2005
- Waltz - Vals fra Fosen -||- see SDV Workshop 2012
- Waltz mixer. Anna's -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Waltz - Last waltz -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Waltz - Spinnrocken (mazurka-waltz mixer) -||- see SDV Workshop 2016
- Waltz - Petaluma Waltz Mixer -||- see SDV Workshop 2017
- Zither number - Pols tune -||- see SDV Workshop 2013
- Zwiefacher ...