Talk:Polska (dance)

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The current version of this article make it sound like sixteenth-note polska equals slängpolska, which I hardly think is correct. Rather I suppose slängpolska is a version of sixteenth-note polska. / Habj 14:07, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

There are many slängpolska, some sixteenth-note, some triplets (like Slängpolska från Västerbotten), and some are not even pair dances (e.g., Slängpolska från Vikbolandet is for two pairs). However, the most common type of slängpolsa is usually referred to simply as "slängpolska" (although I believe it also has a longer name indicating the region it comes from). I heard that "slängpolska" originally just meant that it contains fast rotation (indeed one of the turns in the "common" slängpolska is a fast rotation). Also, I woudn't say it's that similar to salsa or swing. It has some resemblance since the dancers usually only touch each other in their hands, you dance on one spot rather than in a circle, and it is composed of several tours improvised in sequence, but the pace and "mood" are very different - much less extrovert and perhaps more beautiful than playful. --130.243.176.249 22:51, 8 March 2006 (UTC)