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2 6 SWEDISH SONG GAMES
the knee straight, the foot off the floor. Head, body, and right foot
form a straight line; hips Arm. If fall-out step is taken in circle, hand
in hand, the hands are lifted in low chain.
Grasp. See ring grasp: thumb grasp in star: Faroe grasp: skating
grasp.
Hips firm. Hands with palms on hips, thumbs backward, fingers
together stretched forward and downward.
Jig step {sailor). Danced in \ or \ time, thus: step left i, hop left 2,
step right 3, hop right 4; body sways to left and right with each step.
Boys start with left foot, girls with right.
Kick step. Danced in place. In time to music, starting with
left, alternately swing legs from hip forward and upward with knee
straight and foot extended.
Long dance. While dancing in circle, one player, as leader, drops
hand of player on either his right or his left, thus forming a continuous
line which he leads around in a maze; if indoors, in and out of different
rooms. Older or stronger players should be at the end of the line.
Moving to the right or left. Ordinary march step, players facing
slightly the direction in which the circle moves.
Ring grasp. Players face each other and join hands, thus forming a
ring (circle).
Skating grasp. Boy and girl, side by side, hands joined, right to
right, left to left.
Star, with thumb grasp. Two boys and two girls in square
formation, the boys opposite each other and the girls opposite each other.
Boys grasp with right hand each, other’s right thumbs: girls place their
right hands upon those ot the beys, freehand’s of all on hips.
Star, with four couples. The girte i^ center with right thumb grasp,
and with boys’ right hands in their left. The arms forming the star are
extended, the others are be^t, ;;ree/)>arfdV on hips. A star is made
in the same way with the boys in the center.
Starting position. Position in which players are standing at
beginning of dance or figure.
Thumb grasp: See star.
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