How to play
- Participants
- An even number of participants, arranged in pairs.
- 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
- Couples form a circle, one behind another. The partner taking the source’s girl role stands on the other partner’s right. Join inside hands and extend them forwards.
- Section I, bars 1–8: couples travel left around the circle with running steps. At the end of bar 8, both turn outwards to face the opposite direction and rejoin inside hands.
- Section I, bars 9–16: travel in the opposite direction. At the end, release hands and face your partner.
- Section II, bar 1: touch right palms on count one and left palms on count two. In bar 2, clap both palms against your partner’s palms three times.
- Section II, bars 3–4: link right elbows and exchange places in four walking steps. Release and face each other again.
- Section II, bars 5–16: repeat that four-bar clapping and changing sequence three more times, using left, right and left elbows in turn.
- Teaching choice: the three claps in bar 2 can be counted one-and-two; the source does not spell out their rhythm. The leader demonstrates the running-step pulse before the dance.
Ending: Finish after bar 16 of section II. Agree how many complete cycles to perform; stopping there is a workshop arrangement, not a separate ending specified by the source.
Documented version: An educational version proposed in S. Zvicevičienė’s 2006 thesis, linked there to a record from Z. Antanavičienė of Telšiai.
Getting ready
Practise the four-bar clapping and elbow-link sequence without music first. Add the circle travel once both partners can exchange places and find each other again.
Which version are we learning?
An educational version proposed in S. Zvicevičienė’s 2006 thesis, linked there to a record from Z. Antanavičienė of Telšiai.