Line Dancing For Seniors | movie | 1992 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

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00:00 (waves crashing)

00:02 (upbeat music)

00:05 First and most simple of line dance steps.

00:10 I'm gonna do a step, close, step, touch.

00:14 So I step to the right with my right foot,

00:17 close with my left foot, put my weight on it,

00:20 and then I do a step to the right again

00:22 and touch with my left.

00:25 Going back the other way, a step, close, step, touch.

00:30 Do I step left, close my right, step with the left,

00:34 and touch.

00:35 That is called basic number one.

00:39 First and most simple step in line dancing.

00:42 Step, close, step, touch, step, close, step, touch.

00:45 Okay, I'd like to explain to you now

00:48 the second almost basic step in line dancing.

00:52 That is the grapevine, or shorten up, we say vine.

00:57 A vine to the right, you step with your right foot

01:00 to the right, cross behind on the second count

01:04 with the left foot, step right again,

01:06 and touch with the left.

01:08 Now to do it in the other direction,

01:10 you step to the left, cross behind with your right,

01:13 step left again, and touch with your right.

01:16 Four counts, four beats of music.

01:19 Vine right, vine left.

01:21 Now if I want you to do just what I said,

01:24 vine right, vine left, and not break it down

01:27 into two different vines, I say grapevine to the right,

01:31 both ways.

01:32 So I take a step behind, step and touch,

01:35 and go right back the other way,

01:36 and I don't have to say anything about it.

01:39 Sometimes people will take and cross over in the beginning,

01:42 or they'll front or cross behind.

01:44 That is not a grapevine.

01:46 You step in the direction of the grapevine

01:48 with that particular foot.

01:50 Grapevine right, step right, cross behind,

01:53 and count number two, count three, step, and then touch.

01:56 Everyone, of course, knows how to walk forward,

02:00 and in line dancing, we have many dances

02:02 where you're gonna walk forward, usually four,

02:05 sometimes only two, what it might be.

02:08 So we walk without further explanations,

02:11 walking forward, four, starting with the right foot,

02:13 I walk right, left, right, left,

02:16 and I back up four, one, two, three, four.

02:20 Now, opposed to that, in line dancing,

02:22 we have a term that we use called strutting.

02:27 I'm gonna strut four now.

02:29 I'm gonna cover about the same amount of distance,

02:32 but if I'm gonna consider one measure of music, four beats,

02:35 I'm gonna do two measure of four beats each.

02:38 So I strut forward four, step right and touch,

02:42 left and touch, right and touch, left and touch.

02:45 Or I strut back, one and touch,

02:47 two and touch, three and touch, and four and touch.

02:51 That is a strut, as opposed to a walk.

02:54 We use both of them extensively in line dancing.

02:58 Now, there is one more type of locomotive action

03:02 that I'd like to explain, and that is kicks.

03:06 A kick is really done from the knee down.

03:09 You come up with your foot with your knee bent,

03:11 and you snap from the knee forward, and that is a kick,

03:15 and that's the way a kick should be performed.

03:17 As opposed to the step and a kick, or rather, lift.

03:21 Step, lift, step, lift, step, lift.

03:24 (upbeat music)

03:26 I start primarily with beginners

03:33 with this particular dance.

03:35 Basic to the right, both way.

03:38 Step to the right, step, close, step, and touch.

03:41 Back the other way, step, close, and touch.

03:44 Now, strut forward, forward, right, left, right,

03:47 and bind to the right, and step behind, bind left.

03:52 Now, I'm going to turn halfway around

03:54 with four strutting steps.

03:55 Step right, touch left, touch right.

03:58 From the beginning, that's the end of the dance.

04:00 Basic to the right, basic to the left.

04:02 Strut forward, forward, one, two, three,

04:06 and bind to the right, step behind, bind left,

04:09 and strut halfway around, four, two, three,

04:13 and there, we've done the dance twice through.

04:17 (upbeat music)

04:21 Basic, front.

04:26 Front.

04:30 Right, right.

04:33 Close.

04:34 Strut halfway around.

04:37 Basic.

04:40 Basic.

04:42 Forward.

04:43 Bind.

04:46 Both ways.

04:48 Strut circle.

04:50 Bind.

05:00 Right, left.

05:03 Strut circle.

05:04 Basic.

05:07 We have to come back, come back.

05:13 Bind.

05:13 Strut circle.

05:17 I have a father.

05:20 Bind.

05:41 (upbeat music)

05:43 (audience laughing)

05:46 (upbeat music)

05:50 Front.

05:51 Bind.

05:54 Forward.

05:56 Bind.

05:57 Come back.

06:13 Basic.

06:15 Front.

06:17 Bind.

06:18 Bind.

06:21 Bind.

06:25 Basic.

06:28 Front.

06:31 Bind.

06:35 Forward.

06:38 (upbeat music)

06:41, and we're right.

06:43 (upbeat music)

06:45 And we're right.

07:07 (audience applauding)

Line Dancing For Seniors | movie | 1992 | Official Clip

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