This week's Monday Moment: Beating boredom through learning and making...Line Dancing.
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Line Dancing isn't just fun. There are also competitions world wide that include this dance style.
Here is one sample (of a variety of line dances) from a group out of Canada (performing at the UCWDC World Competition event).
If you are new to line dancing, here are two tutorials to get you started.
These two dances are played at nearly all venues that play line dance songs.
Electric Slide
Cupid Shuffle
If you are relatively new to line dancing, here are some things you may want to know:
- Although in-person instruction is ideal for couples dancing (so you can feel the various lead-follow cues), YouTube isn't a bad choice for learning to line dance. It's just you and the music.
Competitive line dancers worry about foot position and shaping. Recreational line dancers just try to get the moves right and look good doing it. Give it a try.
Each area has its own variations of the dances, so don’t be surprised if your favorite line dance looks different when you travel.
There are different kinds of line dances: couple, group, progressing (around the floor) and non-progressing (where you basically stay in your box on the floor). Have fun. Try not to hit your neighbor.
- Line dances that have been popular in and around Wichita, KS at one time or other include: Electric Slide, Tush Push, Watermelon Crawl, Reggae Cowboy, Slappin’ Leather, Cowboy Cha Cha, Choo Choo Train, Thump Factor, Cadillac Ranch, Copperhead Road, Waltz Across Texas, Dizzy, Boot Scoot and Boogie, Macarena, Tribal Dance (2 Unlimited...but a line dance version I can't find on YouTube, sorry folks), Barbie Girl, Mambo #5, 10-step, 14-step (YouTube calls it a 14-Step Polka), Cotton-eyed Joe, Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, Wobble, etc
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To see this (and all the Monday Moments so far) visit:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17NJmXgWEWhKu-r2cPXBmcL1xv6PJLFTE1TluyNeouP0/edit?usp=sharing
