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Line dances are very easy to learn, mainly because the steps are
straightforward, and you do not have to coordinate you movements with a
partner. Line dances also involve repeating series of steps, so if you get
lost, can easily catch up with the rest of the class. Line dances are also
perhaps the most popular dances now performed in many western-oriented
clubs.
Line dance formations
Because of its cowboy image, line dance is often thought to have originated
in the Wild West. According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, line dancing in
fact originated in the age of disco, though the concept goes back to folk
dances such as the Virginia reel. Line dancing declined with the death of
disco until it was more or less single-handedly revived by Billy Ray Cyrus
with his hit “Achy Breaky Heart”— thus the cowboy image.
Each dance can be described to
consist of a number of walls. A wall is the direction in which the dancers
face at any given time, which would be the front, the back or one of the
sides.
A one-wall dance would mean that at
the end of the routine, the dancers would be facing in the same direction as
they had started and so each sequence would repeat exactly the same. A
two-wall dance would mean the start of each routine alternates between two
walls (almost always the front and back walls) A four wall line dance is one
in which at the end the whole routine of dance moves, the dancers turn 90
degrees, so that they would face all four walls in turn during four
repetitions of the routine.
Click
HERE for the steps of a number of fun line
dances.
Video of a sample line dance.
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