Böhmerwald Landler
Böhmerwald Landler
Starting position:
Boy on the inner side, girl on the outer of the Flankenkreis, both hands grasped. He has his back of the left hand showing down, back of his right hand showing up.
Execution:
First round
Entering:
Grasped hands swinging for and back twice. Simultaneousely doing short Nachstellschritte.
I. Part
Measure 1: 1. quarter: Boy stamps with his foot and swings the grasped hands forward. (Each measure one Dreierschritt, continuing until the 8. Measure.). 2. and 3. quarter: The girl turns once clockwise, while the hands are swung over the head.
Measure 2: Swinging forward of the hands.
Measure 3: Swinging back of the hands and turning the girl counter-clockwise once, the hands swing over the head. Simultaneousely the boy makes a larger step to the outer side, moving along the left side of the girl; the girl makes the same to the inner side, so that they change their places.
Measure 4: While swinging the grasped hands shall be swung apart at the height of the shoulders - simultaneousely making a small step together and back again. (typically for the Böhmerwaldlandler)
Measure 5-8: As in measure 1 to 4, again changing the places.
II. Part
"Arm in Arm" with Dreierschritt going in dancing direction, in the 8. measure turning face-to-face.
III. Part
"Clapping" (Abbreviations: thigh - th / own hands- oh / in the hands of the partner - P)
Boy: th-oh-oh/P-oh-P/th-oh-oh/P-oh-P/
Girl: oh-oh-oh/P-oh-P/oh-oh-oh/P-oh-P/
Second round
I. Part
As in the 1. round.
II. Part
As in the 1. round. In the last measure two other pairs (before the dance starts these pairs are named) turn around, so that they form a square.
III. Part
"Clapping". The clapping is done as in the first round, but instead of "P" the dancer clapps his hands with both partners standing on his side. After the last clapping again the starting position.
Third round
I.+II. Part
As in the 1. round. At the end of the II. part, all dancers form a circle with their faces to the middle of the circle.
III. Part
Clapping as in the 2. round. With the last clap in the first quarter of the 8. measure all raised hands remain some seconds put together and then are lowered slowly.
This simple form of a "Landlerischen", which has some different forms, was reported to me by Gerti Gröll from Linz (Upper Austria), who learned it in 1940 by W. Petschl from Krummau from the Böhmerwald. The origin of this dance was the region of Krummau-Kaplitz. After the 2nd world war it was distributed in the upper and lower Mühlviertel.
Source: Volkstanzmappe, Hermann Derschmidt