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Origin: |
Germany |
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Background: |
At the conclusion of wedding festivities the guests form a line and follow the fiddler through the whole house of the newlyweds to inaugurate their new home. |
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Source: |
Hanny “Honey” Budnick, a German, living in the Philadelphia area. “I use the dance at the beginning of an event and guide it into the first 'real' dance, usually a circle.” |
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Music: |
Any slow 2/4 or 4/4 music, with a nice lilt. Perhaps a slow schottische. |
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Formation: |
Single line of dancers, hands joined and down. The line of direction (LOD) is to the left. The leader (on the left end of the line) may lead the line anywhere in the room, as if the line is snaking through the newlyweds’ house. |
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Pattern |
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1 – 8 |
Starting with left foot, walk with 16 slow steps to left, 2 steps per measure |
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8 – 16 |
Starting with left foot, and continuing to the left, step-together-step pattern (cts 1 & 2) for each measure (8 two-steps) |
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Repeat 1 – 16 to end of music |
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Presented at the 2008 Door County Folk Festival (Wisconsin) by Leslie Hyll (Dayton, Ohio)