![]() Count 8 is sometimes replaced with a touch, scuff or a hold. Ī sequence of steps forming a box shape on floor usually done over 8 beats. To move the free leg by lifting the hip and stepping forward with a circular movement. Step back turning slightly in nominated direction.Ī circular movement starting in the pelvis region, moving through the diaphragm, chest and shoulders. Performed forward, backwards or sideways, body rolls are a ripple of the body either up or down over a specified number of counts. Ī step with the free foot crossing behind the weighted foot. Step onto the ball of one foot (on & count), step and/or change weight onto the other foot. The nominated foot crosses and touches behind the other foot.Ī step in any direction followed by a close step and a hold. ![]() Swing nominated foot in a semi circle from front to back. The free leg is extended backwards, forwards or to the side, parallel to the floor. Eg: Left Applejack – Taking weight onto left heel and right toe swivel left toe and right heel to left side. įeet are positioned slightly apart with weight on the heel of one foot and the ball of the other foot swivel toe and heel respectively out to make a “V” and then return to the center position. With feet crossed and ankles locked rock weight onto forward foot. Used to describe the movement of one foot in front of another. The other steps and terms will come as you progress. I have marked the line dance steps beginner terms with an (*). The simplest of the syncopated step sequences is the shuffle which is three steps in two beats. In the table below I have used the symbol “&” to denote a syncopated step. Syncopation is where you do two steps in the one beat. A non-syncopated step sequence is when each step in the sequence is done on successive beats of the music. Some step sequences are syncopated, others are not. ![]() Progressing from novice to beginner to intermediate and finally to advanced is really a matter of learning more and increasingly complex step sequences and putting them together. Remembering the named step sequences is actually more important than trying to learn a particular dance – while dances come into popularity and then vanish into oblivion, the step sequences never change. Very rarely an instructor will teach a particular step sequence by itself – back when I first started I remember my then instructor getting the whole class in a circle and then practicing shuffles, around and around and around, until we’d gotten it right. As the class improves, the teacher will increasingly just use the step description. Therefore, when you start in a beginner class it is the task of the instructor not only to teach you dances and to boost your confidence, but just as importantly, to also teach you at the very least the basic step sequences. While this makes it so much easier, to design and teach a dance, line-dancing is now full of names for step sequences that a beginner needs to learn or will be completely clueless when first learning to line-dance. To make it easier to create a dance sheet for a dance, choreographers and line-dancers have come up with names for short sequences of steps – thus instead of saying “step to the side, cross behind, step to the side, step together”, one merely says “vine”. As line-dances became more complex, the drawn out diagrams disappeared and were replaced with “step sheets”. Since line-dancing is a choreographed style of dance, you are following a sequence of steps that have been conceived by the choreographer.
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