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Midsummer Dance is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the Swedish artist Anders Zorn. There are three versions of the painting; the most well-known one is exhibited at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. [1] Another version, painted at the same time, is now exhibited at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. [2]
Små grodorna being danced at midsummer, 1969, Årsnäs, Sweden. Små grodorna (Swedish for "The Little Frogs") is a traditional Swedish dance and song traditionally performed at midsummer, where the participants dance around the maypole. The dance involves movements that illustrate body parts that frogs lack, namely "ears" (öron) and "tails ...
Anette Björlin, program officer at Skansen, explains that for many, Midsummer at Skansen is simply an unmissable event. “Last year we had around 28,000 visitors on Midsummer Eve alone,” she says.
In their joint will, Anders and Emma Zorn donated their entire holdings to the Swedish State. Some of his most important works can be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Swedish: Nationalmuseum) in Stockholm. Among them is Midsummer Dance (1897), a depiction of dancers in the evening light of a rural Midsummer's Eve celebration.
Dancing around the midsummer pole, in Åmmeberg, Sweden. A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may occur on 1 May or Pentecost , although in some countries it is instead erected during Midsummer (20–26 June). In some cases, the ...
Karl Wilhelm Alexander Ekman (born 1984) is a Swedish ballet dancer and choreographer.His choreographies have been performed by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, the Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Semperoper Ballett, the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Norwegian National Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet, the São Paulo City Ballet [], the Sydney Dance Company, and the Wiener Staatsballett.
Midsummer dance to prästens lilla kråka in Årsnäs in Sweden in 1969. The participants are about to pull themselves towards the midsummer pole.. Prästens lilla kråka is a Swedish singing game, now also a children's song, which is used when dancing around the Christmas tree and the Midsummer pole.
Midsummer dance to Björnen sover in Årsnäs in Sweden in June 1985. One person is appointed to act as bear, taking cover and pretending to sleep; Other participants walk around the "bear" in a ring, singing Björnen sover (the "bear is sleeping"). At the end of the song, the bear "wakes up", and begins to chase the other participants.