Schottische

At our Folkmadness 1996 camp, at an after hours dance, they dance the Schottische. This is a Scandinavian dance that goes something like: 1 2 3 hop, 1 2 3 hop, step hop step hop step hop step hop. The dance was played by our fine musicians.

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[randyaragon1]

I remember that my Mom and Dad used to dance this "Chotis" as they called it at saturday night dances where only the Violin and Guitar were played. In early New Mexico, people danced either a Waltz, Schottisch (Chotis) or polkas to the Violin and Guitar. It was much later after the Mexican revolution when Mexicans fled north and brought their music that it was heard in New Mexico.

[Merejkowski]

The Schottische has influenced Scandinavian folk dances, but it's actually from central Europe, not Scandinavia.

[VerDeTerre1001]

There's one couple that knows how to dance it and the camera is bouncing around the couples who can't get the timing down. The filmer should have waiting until the couples got the rhythm. Looking at this, it's hard to see what the dance really should be.

[Skeeter66]

@nortenero

My sister was playing a chotis here in Austin, Texas (we're from here), and I've never seen anyone dance a chotis/schotis/schottisches, but a family from MX (I want to say Monterrey) danced to it, a son and a mother. Dancing together like normal. They went to the guys left one, two, three, and then kick a little behind the other leg, then they traveled the other way, one, two, three kick. Is that how nortenos dance? You can check out her playing two schotises in my videos.

[Alumicone]

I grew up to this song around the Alsace communities in SW Texas, and it was very different from the couples dancing. In fact, it was a two-parter, first the Cotton-Eyed Joe, immediately flowed into the Shottis without changing partners. The dancers were lined up like spokes in a wheel, and the spokes revolved around the center 'hub'. The entire 'spoke' line swayed together with the familiar swagger, followed by the skipping. You'd think everyone in the line was drunk.

[gakkeer]

What's the song?

[karpov89]

@Heroe34ful Well but Jenkka is not the same as Schottis; the music is different and it is not danced in pairs, at least as I when I was dancing Jenkka in the gym class in school.

[nortenero]

We Northern Mexicans have Schottisches as well! We call them Chotís, though, 

[seewaage]

@SaskBirdies My familly is Norwegian and Bavarian from western North Dakota and they told me that they used to do this dance too. I suppose that North Dakota and Saskatchewan are close cousins in a way.

[SaskBirdies]

Yesss! Further to the below I've found it's the Horse and Buggy Schottische - you can find one by that name, but they don't start doing it with 2 couples until into the 3 minute mark.