Finnish Folk Dances

Kiikurit Finnish Folk Dancers from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada performing 2 dances at the Finlandia Club gala benefiting the building restoration fund on Saturday, December 1, 2007 as well as marking the 90th anniversary of Finland's independence
in 1917.

Dance #1: Ellin Polkka
Dance #2: Suvitunnelma

Choreographed by director Harri Kurtti

Kiikurit Finnish folk dance group was formed in 1970 and has performed in Finland, Australia, various festivals in the U.S. and Canada and will be at Finnfest 2008 in Duluth, Minnesota

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Entertainment

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• Kiikurit
• Finnish
• folk
• dance
• kansantanssi
• Soumalais-Kanadalaiset

[km2941]

hi do you know where I can find the music to the dances? or if you have them and if you could send them to me?

[habbeatle]

@km2941 I have them on my computer so I"ll send them to you

[pacdv]

I must say ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!!

[habbeatle]

Thanks for your compliment, very much appreciated!!

[billingsfolkdancers]

I really enjoyed these dances. My international dance group is learning several Finnish dances. Could you please tell me the names of these dances? Thank you.

[habbeatle]

Very glad you enjoyed these dances, the names of them are Ellin Polkka (Elli's Polkka) and Suvitunnelma (Summer Flair or Fling)

[peteliuz79]

Proud to be Finn! :) We have rich cultural heritage and history.

[arghhhstar]

The second one(Suvitunnelma-Summer sentiment) is composed by Viljami Niittykoski from Kaustinen.He was contemporary with Konsta Jylhä.

[TPV1500]

Maria Kalaniemi has played this one in 90's and even later on. Please look at this link and its "associated" videos

[TPV1500]

@TheBoza1234 Greetings from Tampere, Finland, Eu: first one is "Polka of (girl named) Elli". Second one is "Summer feelings"

Helena (ancient greek name)-> Elin (scandinavian form) or Elina (finnish form) -> Elli (kind of nickname)

[TheBoza1234]

name of the songs ?



[boblaits]

Sure nice to here good old Finnish Music, being of Finnish heritage. Don't here enough of it.

[Bisqwit]

@peteliuz79 Yeah, this is very nice. This is one part of "Finnishness" that I can be happy about. (Too bad it's rather stagnant, but that's another story.) I saw this yesterday live in Järvenpää, where there was a dance revolution event, with dancers from a number of different local dance schools / activity groups present. I was there also, dancing Israeli folk dances (and also some dances from Yugoslavia, France, even Japan) with a small group led by dance teacher Jouni Pajunen.

[shybettigurl]

yay finland!!! Suomi!!!!

[HinderIsSteph124]

can someone teach these dances to me

[muneerawhite]

It looks great. It's a shame that young people "can't" like these dances. Nobody will believe them if they do.

I myself think it's beautiful. A hundred times better then the so called dancing you see in clubs these days.