Dance Form:

Collected by Erna Schutzenberger and Hermann Derschmidt in ' Spinnradl unser Tanzbuch', Vol. 1

Meter:

3/4 time

Steps:

Triple-walking steps (walking steps in 3/4 time)

Formation:

One man between two women. Man takes women's outside hands who then join their inside hands behind man's back.

Figure I

Measure 1-8

All dance forward with triple-walking steps. The man turns alternately to the right and the left woman. On the 3rd quarter of the 7th and the 1st quarter of the 8th measure the man stamps left-right

Figure 2

Measure 1

On the first quarter the man draws the women gently forward, so that their joined hands pass over his head he while bends his knees slightly. He immediately stands up and stands behind the joined hands of the women.

2nd and 3rd quarter: The right woman, standing upright, turns with 2 steps once CCW. She now stands between the man and the left woman. (Attention! Do not unwrap the arms and don't lift them overhead)

Measure 2

First quarter: The right woman slips under the joined, lifted arms of the man and the left women in that they dance forward with a light triple-walking  step , passing their joined hands over her head.

2nd and 3rd quarter: The left woman, standing upright, turns CW until she has turned her back toward the man.

Measure 3

1st quarter: The left woman turns herself CW out

2nd and 3rd quarter: The man turns CCW out to gain starting position.

Measure 4-6

As measure 1-3

Measure 7-8

All three dance three running steps forward and a closing jump.

(no heavy jump but a springy closing of both feet)

Measure 9-16

As measure 1-8