Dances by Birgit Rasmussen

Dances written by Birgit Rasmussen, our first caller and honorary member, will be published here, and she invites you to read and use her dances. She has formulated this introduction to her off-spins:

Prompted by my husband I have decided to publish some of the dances which I composed for my dancers over the years. Since I started calling traditional squares and contras in 1990 I have given each dancer who "rounded a corner" a dance, complete with calls, graphical description and choice of music. This happened when they turned 50, 60, 70 and 75, or had been happily married for 25 or 50 years.

My dances were mostly written when I needed special figures in my teaching which I could not find in existing dances in any of the books at my disposal. I may inadvertently have made a dance very similar or even identical to what someone else has done. If so, I apologize, and ask the author kindly to inform me and supply details. birgit@grandsquare.dk

My hope is that other callers may find it interesting to try some of the dances once in a while.

The idea of using the web for publishing is not new. When the WorldWideWeb and the HTML language became available in the 'nineties I wrote homepages for my husband but stopped many years ago.

By the way, I have a homepage. There you will find a bit more about folkdance and a couple of photos. http://brkjr.dk/br/

credit	title	formation	level
Birgit Rasmussen 1994	To Karen	Mixer	Fairly easy
Birgit Rasmussen 1996	Elegant Lady	Contra	Fairly easy
Birgit Rasmussen 1996	To Jens Peter	Sicilian Circle	Relatively easy
Birgit Rasmussen 1996	To Kath and Jens Peter at Silverwedding	Mixer	Relatively easy
Birgit Rasmussen 1997	To Kath	Sicilian Circle	Fairly easy
Birgit Rasmussen 1997	To Lars	Sicilian Circle	Fairly easy
Birgit Rasmussen 1997	To Mona	Sicilian Circle	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 1999	To Claus	Sicilian Circle	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 1999	To Inga	Sicilian Circle	Easy
Birgit Rasmussen 1999	To Lita and John's Goldwedding	Sicilian Circle	Fairly easy
Birgit Rasmussen 1999	To Mette	Sicilian Circle	Easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2000	To Anne Marie D-J	Sicilian Circle	Fairly easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2000	To Gunna	Sicilian Circle	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2000	To Ole	Sicilian Circle	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2000	To Torsten	Mescolanza	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2001	To Bodil	Sicilian Circle	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2001	To Bodil and Mogens Silverwedding	Square	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2001	To Jytte	Sicilian Circle	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2002	To Asger	Sicilian Circle	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2002	To Inger and Mogens	Square	Very difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2002	To Per	Square	Easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2003	To Erik K	Sicilian Circle	Fairly easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2003	To Hanne	Square, with five Couples	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2003	To Inge O.	Sicilian Circle	Easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2003	To Inge R	Sicilian Circle	Easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2003	To Lis	Square	Easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2003	To Marianne	Sicilian Circle	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2003	To Victor	Square	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	Grand Square Lancers 1st set	Square	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	Grand Square Lancers 2nd set	Square	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	Grand Square Lancers 3rd set	Square	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	Grand Square Lancers 4th set	Square	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	Grand Square Lancers 5th set	Square	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	To Erik L	Mescolanza	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	To Helen	Mescolanza	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	To John	Contra, duple improper	Fairly easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	To Kaj O	Hexagon, 6 couples	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	To Knud Bagger	Contra, proper	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	To Lene	Sicilian Circle	Easy
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	To Mogens K	Triplet, proper	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2004	To Ulla	Square	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2005	To Doris	Mescolanza	Very difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2005	To Hans T.	Mescolanza	Difficult
Birgit Rasmussen 2005	To Judith	Sicilian Circle	Intermediate
Birgit Rasmussen 2006	For Your Hammer - Toes	Contra, duple improper	Easy but unusual
Birgit Rasmussen 2006	To Jytte and Ole's Silverwedding	Tempest	Difficult
Kjeld Rasmussen 1995	Tommy's Texas Two-Step	Couple	Fairly easy
Kjeld Rasmussen 1998	Kjeld's Second	Sicilian Circle	Fairly easy
Kjeld Rasmussen 1998	Move Old Birgit	Contra	Difficult
Kjeld Rasmussen 2005	Hurry Old Birgit	Sicilian Circle	Intermediate