Suggested Music: St. Gilgen S Figurentanz

BOARISCHER

(1 MAY 1990)

"St. Gilgen Figurentanz"

Österreich

Suggested music:‘St. Gilgen’s Figurentanz’

Steps:Walk, shuhplattl, step-swing

Meter:2/4

Formation:Couples in open position facing LOD, inside hands joined, at shoulder

height, M's free hand "holding suspenders", W's free hand on hip

Sequence:Walk

Men Wrapped

Duck and Turn

Women Wrapped

Shuhplattler

MEASUREPATTERN

WALK

1-8M starting on left, W right, walk 16 steps in LOD

MEN WRAPPED

1-8M bring left arm up in a wide circular movement while walking in place,

keeping hold of W's L hand (use all eight beats. At 4 M's L hand should be up). W walks CCW around M coming to original position, facing LOD. Joined hands/arms should come across the M's chest. As the W comes back to position, M's left arm should be completing arc to end up arched in front of couple. W extends right hand forward with palm forward as M takes hand with his over with his thumb on back of W hand.

1-8In this configuration, couple walks forward 16 steps

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DUCK AND TURN

1Without letting go of hands, M "appel" (quick hard stamp) on both feet,

knees bent, and duck straight down (do NOT back out). W starts moving CCW towards center of circle.

2-12As soon as W's hands pass over M's head, M stands up and couple rotates

12 steps CCW in place, pulling away from each other with crossed high handhold. M should end up on inside of circle on counts 1 & 8, W inside on counts 4 & 12.

13-16Without letting go of hands, raise hands over W's head. W does a ¾ CCW

turn in place with four steps to end up facing LOD. M continues to walk in CCW circle around W to end up on inside of circle facing LOD. Lower joined M's right and W's left onto W's right shoulder. Extend other joined hands in front as in MEN WRAPPED above.

WOMEN WRAPPED

1-12Couple walks LOD.

13-16M releases W's right (his left) and with his right starts the W into a full

CW turn to face LOD, as he lets go and turns ¼ CCW to face center

SHUHPLATTL

NOTE: At this sequence, the original dance notes say that the men do hand claps in any desired rhythm (free style) as women, with hands on hips, repeat step right and swing left foot across right, repeat to left, and then alternate right and left for a total of eight times. The Shuhplattler sequence below was taught by the Rathkamp German Dancers at the Deutscher Volkstanz Lehrgang 1 held in Houston in April of 1990. The plattl is actually from "Bankltanz" (Bench Dance) as performed by the Enzian Volkstanzgruppe of Newark, Delaware and taught to Erich Wolz. Because of music, the sequence has been modified to correspond to the music. Also, it has been modified to allow the women more to do rather than doing such a simple step the entire clap sequence.

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CLAP

1-2MEN: Facing center of circle, clap hands together twice quickly, then clap

adjacent M's hands in LOWER POSITION (about waist high or slightly lower, depending on arm length) - Meas. 1. Clap hands together twice quickly, then clap adjacent M's hands in UPPER POSITION (slightly higher than head, depending on arm length) - Meas. 2. When hands are clapped LOWER (Meas. 1), M look at W over R shoulder. When hands are clapped UPPER (Meas. 2), M look at W over L shoulder.

WOMEN: Facing LOD, take two walking steps (R-L) in LOD - Meas. 1,

then two pivots (R-L) in LOD - Meas. 2, to progress to next M

3-8Sequence continues as 1-2 above except that on last measure, M clap

hands together once then put hands up in shuhplattl position (see below)

Plattl

** Quick, even tempo

** Even-numbered slaps (2&4) are ALWAYS on the left thigh

** Odd-numbered slaps (1&3) are either on the left sole (in front

or in back) or on right sole (in back)

** Keep fingers together and thumb close to the palm of the hand

"KREUZ" = right hand on left sole in back

"FRONT" = right hand on left sole in front

"SIDE" = right hand on right thigh

"BACK" = right hand on right sole in back

PLATTL

KREUZ - 2 - FRONT - SIDE - 2 - BACK - 4

KREUZ - 2 - FRONT - SIDE - Stamp - Stamp

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The stamps are two-footed hop-stamps. The first hop-stamp, keep both palms up, forearms perpendicular to upper arms that are parallel to the ground, M face in. The last hop-stamp, grasp suspenders, M turn ¼ CW to face LOD.

1-8MEN: Do Plattl sequence above

WOMEN: In place, facing M,

1: Step-touch to the right

2: Step-touch to the left

3-4: Do 4 walking steps (R-L-R-L) turning

CW in place to come back facing M

5-8: Repeat 1-4 above except end facing LOD

Repeat Walk (16 count)

Repeat Men Wrapped

Repeat Duck and Turn

Repeat Women Wrapped except that on last measure, M release L hand and turn W CW

by right to bow.

NOTE: The term “Boarischer”, which is the Bavarian dialect for “Bavarian” is NOT the name of this dance. A Boarischer is a type of dance with a certain rhythm and pattern- such as Rheinländer.

From Let's Dance, May/June 1974. Introduced into the U.S. by Morry Gelman. Modified for performance by the Rathkamp German Dancers. These dance notes and choreography were written by Dr. Douglas Lee Hall, Der Deutsche Volkstanzverein von San Antonio. ©1991. May be used for non-commercial purposes without written permission of the author.