Gallop (dance)
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| Technology: | Folk dance |
| Type: | Paartanz ( Society dance ) |
| Music: | Folk music |
| Time signature : | 2 / 4 -stroke |
| Tempo: | ~ 60 TPM (120 (to 176) bpm ) |
| Origin: | Austria , Germany |
| Creation time: | before 1800 |
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The canter (including sliders , the gallop, French .: the canter ) is a lively, excited dance in 2 / 4 -Stroke, predominantly in today folk dance is used.
Origins
During the gallop , the dancers originally only embraced each other with one arm and stepped forward, always with one foot, dragging the other, changing from time to time the advancing foot and the encircling arm. Later the pace and speed were increased to the point of frenzy.
In the past, the gallop was danced at the end of a volta or a contre danse . The dance was often the sweeter at the end of a ball. It has been known in Vienna since 1803, it now consisted of a quick sideways gallop in one direction and replaced the Langaus, which the authorities had banned a few years earlier as being "harmful to health" . In 1820 the gallop was one of the most popular dances in the city of Linz.
From 1830 the gallop was noticeably replaced by the fast polka as a fashion dance. Around 1840 Johann Strauss (father) decided not to write a canter any more. The rural gallop almost without exception retained the old slide form, galloping in one direction.
In the German ballrooms it came into fashion around 1824, but no longer in the form of continuous galloping, but as a very fast round dance with the step pattern of the polka and the step character of the gallop. It was danced in this version in Paris, from where it came back to Germany under the name Schnellpolka . From 1870, the ballroom's popularity began to decline.
Gallop today
Today the gallop is danced mainly on balls in Austria and southern Germany, and it is still alive in folk dance. Sometimes the gallop steps are interrupted by short phases of walking or polka steps.
Dance form
Compared to many other classical dances, performing the gallop does not require any practice. The couples walk on the dance floor in dance posture and jump from one side of the dance floor to the other, sometimes reversing the dance posture and dancing back again. Continuous, rapid lateral adjustment step with a slight, springy jump. During the jump, the following leg is pulled up ( gallop step ).
In a variant, the couples stand side by side in a row and hold their hands above their heads. An additional couple dance under their hands and join at the end of the row.
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- ↑ Ludwigsberg Hold: Dance grammar for Austrian folk dance. Innsbruck 2000, ISBN 3-901829-06-7 , p. 35.
- ↑ Krebspolka, gallop in folk dance