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Leif Rygg – lausdans kar!?

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Now here's some fun for those of you familiar with the folk music scene in Norway — Leif Rygg competing in… lausdans / halling ?!?!

The video was taken at the recent Vestlandskappleiken 2009, held in Jostedalen. This is a multi-province folk music and dance competition on Norway's west coast.
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Pizza-kast

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And in our final entry for this week's "halling-fest"…
Apparently some Norwegians prefer their pizza without peppers. The Norwegian pizza brand, Grandiosa, has made a commercial in the style of a American Idol-like competion about their new pizza "without peppers (paprika)". What they call "paprika" is what we in the USA would call "sweet red peppers".
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A polska halling

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Many people think that halling is a dance found only in Norway. That's not true. Sweden, too, has a halling tradition.

Halling is usually played and danced in a beat of 2/4 or 4/4. Here we have an interesting blending of halling being danced to a polska tune, which is in an asymmetrical beat of three.
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A wonderfully laus-y way to dance

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We're going to celebrate the dance known as "halling" this week by featuring both the dance and music for the dance.
In 2007 the winner of the Norwegian national competition in Class B laus/halling competition was Ulf-Arne Johannessen from Ål, Hallingdal. This was the second time Johannessen had won in Class B (open class) competition which [...]

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Halling dance in Age of Conan video game

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In October, I wrote about how the Norwegian dance, halling (also known as laus) had been filmed in motion-capture for inclusion in the Age of Conan game. Hallgrim Hansegård, a Class A (Master) laus dancer in Norway, was the dancer filmed for the sequence.
I've now located a video that shows the dance in its entirety [...]

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1939: Valdresspringar and laus (halling)

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Ta:lik recording company has some truly neat videos that they've been putting on their YouTube channel.
Here is a silent video (that's right, there's no sound!) that's meant to feature the hardingfele fiddler Ola O. Reishagen from Vestre Slidre in Valdres.
He was known as Oscar Hamry after he emigrated to the USA. After coming to Minnesota, [...]

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Halling / Laus to join the gaming world

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Norway's famous "show-off" traditional dance for men — the halling — is going to move into the gaming world.
Class A Halling dancer and leader of the Frikar dance group, Hallgrim Hansegård, has been filming motion capture for the upcoming release of a Cimmerian dance for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.

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