Hambo Dance

[amazing763]

I have found that the key to learning the hambo is that the men and the women study it from the instructor separately. Only when a couple are educated in the proper footwork and weighting can they dance it together.

As danced in this video it is dangerous if any who do not know it well are on the dance floor. If the lady's leg swings out (which it should not, actually), she can knock over the dancers behind her.

At US folk dances it is often announced as, "The hambo, for those who know it."

[gbj1941]

Any chance of your dancers doing it again, but this time really slowed down - really slow-motion - so that non-Swedes can actually catch on to how to do it ourselves? Please!

[jmstorm]

Loved seeing this, was reminded of it by an episode in the recent PBS show EMMA by Jane Austin, showing a dance called TOWN SQUARE, similar to square dancing I did as a young woman at a barn dance in Townsend.VT I also danced the hambo at a Sons of Norway Hall in Bayridge, Brooklyn. Such fun to do! I'm now 81 yrs. and it's one of my fondest memories.. (Travolta's SAT.NITE FEVER was filmed at the Bayridge Hall)

[banana51287]

I love hambo! I wish I could do it better

[kimberk01]

There are so many variations on the hambo/polska dance.What many people consider the "proper" Hambo is often the Halsingehambo. What is cool about this variation is that all the picture drawings of "Swedish" dancers you find on tablecloths, cards, etc are in this very position, the woman's left foot going way back like that. I have seen a performance group from Estonia the performed a "Swedish" Hambo and it looked just like this too.

[Alatarielxx]

This is a very interesting way to do the dance... I would've been smacked by the leader of my dance group if I ever let my foot "fly" like the woman was doing; but it's pretty neat to watch. I wonder if it's a variation?

[Jakkimaru]

Those steps aren't exactly steps of hambo, the line goes right but the way those girls move their feet during the stepping isn't right, feet shouldn't "fly" so much, they go so far from their partner, feet and the whole presence of the dancer should be close to the partner.

[motstraumen]

Thank you for posting this. This showed some steps that I hadn't seen in many years. We dance this in Scandinavia. In Norway we call it Mazurka, in Sweden Hambo and I have even heard it called Hoppvals. Thanks Again