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.mejlhede.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.