Round dancing on the ice

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Dance group at the Vienna Ice Skating Club (1920s)

Round dancing on the ice is ballroom dancing on the ice in a dance circle. Round dancing is not a competitive sport and is not subject to any set of rules. It developed from 1868 on the square of the Vienna Ice Skating Club. The tradition of round dancing is passed on orally from generation to generation. Today it is practiced in Vienna and Munich. In October 2018, UNESCO added circular dancing on ice to the Austrian register of intangible cultural heritage .

The dance circle

The dance circle is a meeting point and space for round dancing. It is a Viennese invention writes Ingrid Wendl . The dance circle is demarcated for the dancers during normal public walking, mostly with strings. In the past, the dancers were also referred to as a group, using the term dance circle. Like in a ballroom, the dance is counter-clockwise.

Differentiation between round dancing and ice dancing

Round dancing has established itself as a ballroom dance on the ice and is only practiced for fun. From round dancing, ice dancing has developed into a competitive sport. Several couples or groups can dance freely at the same time in the dance circle. The couples or groups can choose for themselves which dances are danced to which music. The sequence of steps can be adjusted according to ability and stamina. It is essential that the sequence of steps matches the beat of the music and that constant momentum is maintained. Ice dancing is performed on a rectangular surface, usually 60 × 30 m. The ISU (International Skating Union) provides a catalog of sample dances, formerly called compulsory dances. The sequence of steps and traces are precisely specified for each dance. There are evaluation criteria for the model dances that allow an evaluation by the judges in the competition. Some pattern dances go back in their original form to round dances. For example, the "Fourteenstep" developed from the so-called Schöller March.

history

The origins of round dancing go back to the appearance of the American figure skater Jackson Haines on the site of the newly founded Vienna Ice Skating Club in February 1868. He ran several dances, including a waltz , across the ice. The audience was particularly enthusiastic about this transfer of the Viennese waltz to the ice , later called the Haines Waltz . It could be danced by a dancer or in pairs. Based on the balls that had become popular in Vienna at the time , dance events and costume parties soon established themselves on the ice as part of social life.

The first round dances can be found in the book "Traces on the Ice". In the first edition from 1881 there are three dances that were danced in a circle:

  • Haynes Waltz
  • The American waltz
  • The polka mazurka

In the second edition of "Traces on the Ice" from 1892, 17 dances, such as the "Schöller-Marsch" and the "Neu-Links-Walzer", were described.

More dances were published in "Artificial Skating".

In 1932 the Linzer Tages Post wrote “ ... let's take a look at the origins of dance on the ice and its home. We have to go back to the time about 40 years ago, to the old Vienna of the line walls. The cradle of the "Viennese dance on the ice" was in the old Viennese ice skating club, where there is now a train station, and at Engelmann in Hernals. ... The Haynes Waltz ruled unreservedly at that time. ... In the 1990s ... the Schöller step and the Schöller waltz came. "

The dances changed over the years, the steps were decorated or simplified again. This is mentioned in the case of the ten step (forerunner of the fourteen step) in "Ice Hockey Skating and Dancing": 'It is optional whether these steps, ..., are done as an ordinary chassé, or whether, in the second step, the right foot is placed behind the left and the left then raised off the ice. ' - briefly with or without back cross.

today

During round dancing on the ice, essential elements of Viennese dance culture have been preserved. The juxtaposition of couple and group dances has great parallels with the dance festivals of the Biedermeier period and the Viennese balls in the middle of the 19th century. Different versions of a dance are danced next to each other at the same time (see steps of ten above).

The dances still in use today are:

  • Kilian
  • Waltz (Schöller Waltz, Crazy Waltz, Herzln)
  • Java (step 16)
  • tango

As group dances there are the Kettenkilian, the circular waltz, the button and the dumpling. A mixed form is the row kilian - several couples in a row dance the same step synchronously. A special feature among the group dances is the circular waltz. Any number of dancers hold hands loosely and form a circle. Anyone can join in spontaneously without a dance partner. One person takes the lead and announces special turns and changes of direction. This makes the circular waltz a real dance game ( Cottilon ), as it was extremely popular in the 19th century, but is rarely practiced today.

The Kilian is danced as a round dance in its original form with a Mohawk. The ISU model dance Kilian was further developed by a Choctaw. The waltz is danced as a Schöller waltz, as a crazy waltz (formerly "Neu-Links-Walzer") or with the pace of the heart. The pace consists of a string of threes and can be seen as a further development of the English (once-back).

The Java is a dance that consists of 16 steps. Technically it is a combination of the Schöllermarsch and the Haines waltz. "An interesting combination valse, containing figures of both the 'Ten-Step' and the 'Jackson Haines' valses, may be made by introducing preliminary steps of the' Ten-Step 'and adding to them the peculiar steps characteristic of the' Jackson Haines' valse. ” This could also explain the name Java (JAckson Haines VAlse), which in Munich is called Jawa (JAckson Haines WAlzer).

A specialty in Munich is the Münchner Dipferl, which has certain similarities with the Kettenkilian.

The individual dance steps of the dances are freely combined with each other in round dancing, depending on the space and skills of the ice dancers.

Learning the sport

Getting started in this sport is relatively easy, provided that you have mastered simple art-skating steps, running steps forwards and backwards, as well as rotations such as Mohawk and threesomes.

Circular dancing courses are offered in Vienna at the Wiener Eislauf-Verein ( ice skating club) , on the Engelmann artificial ice rink and in the Wiener EisStadthalle.

Courses are also regularly offered in Munich.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Alexander Aigner: Ice skating over the roofs. DerStandard, March 27, 2008, accessed September 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Mirjam Marits: Viennese round dancing on the ice is a Unesco cultural heritage. Die Presse, October 3, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ingrid Wendl: Ice cream with style . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7141-7105-3 , p. 127 .
  5. ^ Wiener Sporttagblatt . Vienna December 15, 1927, p. 5 .
  6. ^ Wiener Sporttagblatt . Vienna September 24, 1929, p. 6 .
  7. ↑ ISU (Ed.): Judging System - Handbook for Officials Pattern Dance . June 18, 2016, p. 3, 13, 35 .
  8. ^ Fourteenstep information. April 14, 2013, accessed September 4, 2017 .
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  10. ^ Charles v. Korper, Max Wirth, Demeter Diamantidi: Tracks on the Ice . Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1881, p. 286 .
  11. ^ Charles v. Korper, Max Wirth, Demeter Diamantidi: Traces on the Ice - The Development of Ice Skating on the Track of the Vienna Ice Skating Club . 1st edition. Vienna 1881, p. 284 ff .
  12. ^ Charles v. Korper, Max Wirth, Demeter Diamantidi: Tracks on the Ice . Ed .: Alfred Hölder. 2nd Edition. Vienna 1892.
  13. ^ Robert Holletschek: Skill in ice skating . 8th edition. Bergverlag Rudolf Rothner, Munich 1925.
  14. ↑ Linzer Tages-Post . Linz December 16, 1932, p. 6 .
  15. ^ Carl Erhardt: Ice Hockey Skating and Dancing . W. Foulsham & Co, London, p. 57 .
  16. ↑ Ice dancing - round dance. Accessed September 2, 2017 (German, English).
  17. ^ Otto Bohatsch: Sport in the Viennese ice skating club . Ed .: Wiener Eislaufverein. Vienna December 21, 1928, p. 1 .
  18. ^ Robert Holletschek: Skill in ice skating . 8th edition. Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich 1925, p. 121 .
  19. ^ I. Brokaw: The art of skating . 1915, p. 163 .
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  21. ↑ Vienna Ice Skating Club. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Engelmann artificial ice rink. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 3, 2017 ; accessed on September 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.engelmann.co.at
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  24. ↑ Ice Dance Munich. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .