Thanks, Sir Dominic! I knew I hadn't got it quite right but I couldn't navigate back to the place where I had spotted the name. I was also thinking that someone with slightly more time on their hands than me might like to edit the bits of video together. Jx
@kimberk01 switching the lead is the dancers' interpretation, it's not traditional. I think it's coincidental that you've seen her (them) mostly working with nyckelharpa. Do you live in the UK, by the way? Petra has taught at Scandimoot (early May, in the Yorkshire Dales- search on google for Scandimoot to find the webpage on wikispaces), and at Kinnersley, with her partner Anton Schneider and most recently with another dancer, Martin Eneling.
Well, I should have been more specific. Yes, I was looking to find out what regional style.Yeah, the on the spot style, I would peg it more in the Western part, closer to Norway. But I have seen this Petra Eriksson dance in other videos always with a nyckelharpa which tells me otherwise. What intrigues me is the switch in who takes the lead. I wonder if that is the dancer's interpretation, a more modern variation perhaps? Thanks though! Whatever the case with this dance I want to learn it!
@kimberk01 Hi - släng polska, first to slow music and then fast, as interpreted by Petra and Anton. Yes if's from Sweden. Sorry I can't say which regional style it is closest to. One thing worth noting is that they don't move around the room much, they dance round and round each other, and I think this is a clue as to the regional style. If you move around the room as well as round each other it tends to feel more processional. Neither way is right or wrong.
CT waterfront :-) He said he was Zulu & learned to play from his grandfather, but had invented this particular mouthpiece structure & was playing improvisations. The shaker was a plastic ball from a ballcock, filled it with 20c coins. I play Swedish & Norwegian tunes on a plastic flute which uses the same harmonic principles although the mouthpiece is constructed differently & I use 2 hands to hold the flute. There are also traditions of harmonic flutes in other countries.
