Line Dance Scripts
October 13, 2009
Congratulations, it’s week 5 and by the end of tonight’s class you’ll be halfway through our 10 week introduction course to Line Dancing, if I put it into perspective you’ve only been Line Dancing for four hours to date, just half a day at work!
Last week we introduced 2 new dances and changed the music for the other dances we’ve taught so far, we like to change the music and mix things up to keep it interesting, it makes you think more than you would if it were the same track every week and also stops you getting bored.
You’ll notice change on the back of this week’s newsletter, “The Dance Steps Explained” have been replaced by a simplified version of the dance scripts. A couple of you asked for the scripts but due to past experience we were reluctant to provide them. In our experience new dancers are put off when confronted with a Line Dance script and for some reason soon stop coming to the classes once they have a script in their hands, it’s almost like they lose the will to carry on, strange but true…
What we have come up with is a simplified script format, we hope you find it easier to understand and follow but if you can’t remember exactly how a Grapevine goes, for example, you can refer to the “The Dance Steps Explained” on the back of the first 4 newsletters.
The steps we want to master this week is the shuffle, both forwards and sideways versions and we’ll do this by introducing a new dance. The shuffle is a 3 step move over two counts of the music, 1 & 2, the & is a quickly inserted between the first and last steps which makes the move seem much quicker than it really is. The key to getting on top of this move is to take smaller steps, smaller steps give you more time to complete the move.
Once we have mastered shuffles we will be ready to start learning new moves and dances on a more regular basis…
Dolly & Tony