Finnish Folk Dances

[@muneerawhite]

It looks great. It's a shame that young people "can't" like these dances. Nobody will believe them if they do. I myself think it's beautiful. A hundred times better then the so called dancing you see in clubs these days.

[@saarinenj1]

This is very easy to dance i dont need to practice it.

[@boblaits]

Sure nice to here good old Finnish Music, being of Finnish heritage. Don't here enough of it.

[@habbeatle]

Your comments were much appreciated by the group when I relayed them at our practice, thank you!, though I usually prefer the more up tempo dances to me the second slower one really captures that sense of pathos and melancholy you could imagine existed around the time of Finland's independence after a number of years of bitter civil war, you still see it today in many older finns, gives me a nice connection to my maternal grandparents who came to Canada just after this time

[@habbeatle]

Very glad you enjoyed these dances, the names of them are Ellin Polkka (Elli's Polkka) and Suvitunnelma (Summer Flair or Fling)

[@PupsIsMyDog]

I could hear some levan polka music mins that

[@chanel65269]

Ievan polkka...ive heard it too many times...since i was baby, i started To hear it xD

[@saarinenj1]

PupsIsMyDog Do you know the real meaning of levan polkka?

[@hotforwordstoo]

Kiitos, tack! There are few familys from Finland and Sweden, located in North eastern Ontario and North western Québec.

[@arghhhstar]

The second one(Suvitunnelma-Summer sentiment) is composed by Viljami Niittykoski from Kaustinen.He was contemporary with Konsta Jylhä.

[@kathleenfroggatt1490]

Great dancing!

[@AccordionLadyMi]

I enjoyed this so much. Both the music and the dancing are Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this video. Fran

[@ahabah72]

See some elements that are used in country square dancing and vaguely remember doing something like these when I was in an international folk-dance group ... hope to go back to that group in September. Love (Finnish) folklore and dance!

[@habbeatle]

Thanks for your compliment, very much appreciated!!

[@Assiolomaglia]

Very nice!

[@habbeatle]

thanks for the kind words, it was our first time performing them in public and we were a bit nervous as it was a full house but it seemed to go over well with everyone

[@flamah10n]

So cool! What a funny song!

[@TPV1500]

@TheBoza1234 Greetings from Tampere, Finland, Eu: first one is "Polka of (girl named) Elli". Second one is "Summer feelings" Helena (ancient greek name)-> Elin (scandinavian form) or Elina (finnish form) -> Elli (kind of nickname)

[@Bisqwit]

@peteliuz79 Yeah, this is very nice. This is one part of "Finnishness" that I can be happy about. (Too bad it's rather stagnant, but that's another story.) I saw this yesterday live in Järvenpää, where there was a dance revolution event, with dancers from a number of different local dance schools / activity groups present. I was there also, dancing Israeli folk dances (and also some dances from Yugoslavia, France, even Japan) with a small group led by dance teacher Jouni Pajunen.

[@TPV1500]

Maria Kalaniemi has played this one in 90's and even later on. Please look at this link and its "associated" videos

[@shybettigurl]

yay finland!!! Suomi!!!!

[@HinderIsSteph124]

can someone teach these dances to me

[@scy4927]

interesting!

[@habbeatle]

@km2941 I have them on my computer so I"ll send them to you

[@km2941]

hi do you know where I can find the music to the dances? or if you have them and if you could send them to me?

[@TheBoza1234]

name of the songs ?

[@DeltaDusky]

This is nothing like what I saw on The Simpsons 🤔

[@vanhapelto]

Too bad there's no video's on here of Kiikurit from the 80's and 90's...

[@MsLansdo]

Hi, I belong to a small Finnish community and teach at a school there. I am of Finnish heritage. I was wondering if we could borrow some of these moves and the music for our Christmas Event in December. Kiitos.

[@Ivar-b5y]

Ofc you can, its just traditional dances

[@inathalybv]

What is the name of the song??

[@jorma123456789]

Finland and Russia share a border. Finland and Poland don't. =)

[@gaaiessaaies]

How can you say its not Slavic?

[@mrhugotuff]

gaaiessaaies it’s not

[@corneliouscook6062]

its finnish

[@optimusmaximum968]

just boring...how i got here???

[@FL--uv3xb]

I kept staring at the Canada flag in the background like, 'I'm a Canadian.' then a guy coughed and I started laughing cuz it was more entertaining then the dance.

[@gaaiessaaies]

Why are they playing slav music????

[@corneliouscook6062]

its not slav.

[@kalleuhlenius452]

Its more ugric music

[@mybestie5858]

I don’t think that’s Slavic

[@maito3348]

That sounds like levan polka and its finnish song

[@kontsikka]

enjoy and........................jump voises ..............down........................nice :)

[@kontsikka]

nice, but no noice when you jump etc...........greetins from Finland and ex tanssija

[@kontsikka]

nice......but voices.....tiptoes not jhgygyyg........me ex dancer.......

[@inathalybv]

What is the name of the song?