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Dance Polka Dot Polka 8986

Reel · 32 bars · 5 persons · Square   (Progression: 53412)

Devised by
Colin Andrews
Intensity
80808/08088/80044/04840 = 50% (whole dance)
Formations
Steps
  • Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
Published in
Extra Info
Five dancers in a square: head dancers 1+3, sides 2+4, 5 in centre facing 1. Music: “Lively polka or rant”. …

Five dancers in a square: head dancers 1+3, sides 2+4, 5 in centre facing 1. Music: “Lively polka or rant”.

On 8 july 2016 the author wrote to the SCDDB editors “A further update on the 'Polka Dot Polka. Although I was completely unaware at the time I made up the dance, I have been told very recently that there is actually a traditional 5 -hand reel dance mentioned in one of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels. As he was an accomplished fiddle player, playing for village dances, I suspect that the 5 hand reel was a genuine dance though whether it survived and the notation was ever ‘collected’ I don’t know.”

Polka Dot Polka 5pS · R32

5 dancers in a square, 1+3 head, 2+4 on sides, 5 in middle facing 1

1–
1+5+3 Rsh Reel3
9–
4+5+2 Lsh Reel3
17–
1+5 set | change places RH ; 1+4 repeat
25–
4+3 repeat ; 3+2 repeat (5,3,4,1,2)
Polka Dot Polka 5pS · R32

5 person square set with 5th person in centre facing up

1-8
5+1+3 dance RSh Reel up/down
9-16
5+2+4 dance LSh Reel across
17-24
5+1 set & 1/2 turn RH to change places; 1+4 set & 1/2 turn RH
25-32
4+3 set & 1/2 turn RH ; 3+2 set & 1/2 turn RH. 5 3 4 1 2

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Added on: 2023-04-11 (Murrough Landon)
Quality: Reasonable

NameDateOwnerLast changed
Budapest Dance Club 2016-02-25 Zsolt Molnar Feb. 26, 2016, 9:02 a.m.
170424 Nürnberg 2017-04-24 Annette Lotz July 23, 2017, 10:50 a.m.
Budapest Local Club - 07.11.2023 2023-11-07 lldikó Szakolczai Nov. 11, 2023, 5:07 p.m.
Budapest Local Club 12.03.2024 2024-03-12 lldikó Szakolczai March 20, 2024, 9:43 a.m.
2018-05-05 Nürnberg Auftritt 2018-05-05 Annette Lotz July 3, 2018, 4:38 p.m.
Santa Cruz Introductory Class, December 14, 2023 (San Francisco Branch) 2023-12-14 Juliet Davoren Dec. 4, 2023, 7:43 a.m.
2018-01-29 Nürnberg Prep Demo 2018-01-29 Annette Lotz July 3, 2018, 4:43 p.m.
20220920 - Bo’ness Class - Margie 2022-09-20 Zsofia Jozsef Sept. 22, 2022, 10:38 a.m.
Набережная 2019-06-04+ Denis Lisov June 4, 2019, 3:27 p.m.
Lethbridge 2023/05, 31 May Year End Social 2023-05-31 Fiona Miller May 27, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
2020-08-03 Nürnberg- Dance in the Parc 2020-08-03 Annette Lotz Aug. 8, 2020, 1:03 p.m.
5-Person Dances David Wasson Aug. 16, 2022, 7:02 p.m.
2020-07-06 Nürnberg Dance in the Parc 2020-07-06 Annette Lotz July 8, 2020, 9:04 p.m.
SCD Nürnberg (2016-04-04) 2016-04-04 Roland Ritthaler April 18, 2016, 10:53 a.m.
2018-02-26 Nürnberg 2018-02-26 Annette Lotz July 3, 2018, 4:41 p.m.
Easy Five person dances Zdravko Podolski Sept. 10, 2023, 1:06 p.m.
2018-05-05 Nürnberg Auftritt 2018-05-05 Annette Lotz July 3, 2018, 4:38 p.m.
U3A 16th August Mountpleasant George Hobson Aug. 13, 2021, 3:11 p.m.
WSCDS 2021 Sept. 8 2021-09-08 Charlotte Holton Sept. 2, 2021, 2:04 a.m.
RSCDS SF Begnners' Ball 2018 2018-06-16 Rachel Pusey March 4, 2018, 5:46 p.m.
Bristol 2021 Summer Fling Rosamund Rawlings July 2, 2021, 1:52 p.m.
SF Hildesheim 2-6-7 etc. Paare Cord Walter May 21, 2023, 10:04 p.m.
SCD Nürnberg Workshop 2016-07-17 Roland Ritthaler July 16, 2016, 9:38 p.m.
Santa Cruz August-September 2022 2022-08-11 Juliet Davoren Nov. 4, 2022, 5:29 a.m.
Easy set Mary Cant Sept. 22, 2023, 1:39 p.m.
Dance Suggestions 2019 Judith Kowalczik Dec. 31, 2018, 6:19 p.m.
no hands (minimal hands) Diana Hastie March 10, 2020, 10:44 a.m.

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reel in second 8 bars

Anne Young · April 10, 2013, 10 p.m.

I don’t see that you know a source for this dance, so I don’t know that I was taught the correct version, but the left shoulder reel (as I was taught it) begins with person 5 giving left shoulder to person 4 (rather than person 2, as indicated in the diagram). That choice of who to begin the reel with flows smoothly from the right shoulder reel in the first 8 bars.

Thanks for making so many of these cribs/diagrams available.

Anne

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IdSubjectDateSubmitterAssigned toPriorityDisposition
953 Polka Dot Polka June 3, 2016, 6:22 p.m. Ron Houston Eric Ferguson Normal Fixed
954 Polka Dot Polka June 3, 2016, 6:54 p.m. Colin Andrews --- Normal Fixed