How to play
- Participants
- Pairs, with enough space to extend a leg and turn.
- Space
- A level area where each couple can step and turn without colliding with others.
- Equipment
- Music suitable for this version, or a live musician · A leader who demonstrates the movements and musical section boundaries before starting
- Starting formation
- Face your partner, holding both hands with arms extended.
- Section I, bar 1, count one: hop on the left foot and extend the right leg forwards, heel down, leaning towards it. The heel need not touch the floor.
- Count two: hop again on the left, draw the right foot towards the left ankle and straighten your body.
- Bar 2: stamp right, left, right on one-and-two. In bars 3–4 repeat the sequence with the legs reversed.
- Bars 5–8: repeat the first four bars.
- Section II, bars 1–8: take polka hold and dance a waltz-polka. The source’s alternative for children keeps both arms extended and turns the couple on the spot using the double step. Learn whichever step you choose before dancing.
- Teaching choice for the children’s alternative: all couples turn clockwise. This direction is chosen for the rehearsal; the source leaves it unspecified.
Ending: After eight bars of section II, return to the beginning. Agree beforehand to finish the workshop after a complete cycle.
Documented version: The LNKC paired Kiškelis, with either waltz-polka or the source’s children’s turning alternative in section II.
Getting ready
Practise the first section slowly on your own: left supporting leg, right foot out and in, three stamps. Then reverse legs. Ask a leader who knows the chosen turning step to teach it separately.
What a leader needs to teach
LNKC does not explain the weight transfers or counts for either the waltz-polka or the double step suggested for children. The children’s alternative is therefore not a self-contained lesson. Rehearse section I from the description; a leader must teach the chosen second-section step and couple turn.
Which version are we learning?
The LNKC paired Kiškelis, with either waltz-polka or the source’s children’s turning alternative in section II.