Step Kick — Step right forward take the weight on your right and kick left. Step Hitch — Step your right forward and take the weight and hitch your left knee up. Stomp — To strike the floor with the whole foot to emphasise the sound. With or without a transfer of weight.
Swivel — A rotation on the balls of the feet using them as a pivot taking the heels to the right or left. Side Touches — Step onto right foot and take the weight, touch your left next to right. Can be performed starting on the left. Toe Struts — Would commence with the ball of the foot going down then the heel lowering to the floor. Weave — Step right to the side cross left in front of right take the weight and step right to the right side and cross your left behind right.
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Line Dance Basic Steps Below are some basic steps for beginner line dancers. Hope it helps!! Flick — A low kick using the ankle and flexed knee. Search for:. It is usually still called and written as a jazz square or box. Example: R kick ball change is done by kicking fwd. Usually syncopated. Example: Kick R ft. A tight cross of the feet Transferring of wt.
Can be fwd, diagonal or side. A term that causes much debate. While in general denotes just to begin the main dance again, it will be noted occasionally on some dance s that you will be restarting the dance again after only doing a portion of it.
Again used to make the dance fit the music. Example: R fwd rock — step fwd with R, then rock back onto L recovering your weight. Two weight changes in opposite directions using 2 beats of music. Fwd and back rock steps are done in 5th foot position, side rock steps in second position. Your cts. Can be either R or L. Cross ft. This dance pattern is accomplished by leaning in the opposite direction of the back crossing foot.
Side shuffles are executed by stepping to the side, bring the other ft. Example: Touch toe to floor on count 1, then drop the heel on count 2 taking weight to that foot. Can be toes, heels, forward, side, etc. Example: side switches - touch R toe to R side, bring back to center and change wt. You will find them in various numbers, 4, 6, 8,etc. This list hopefully though will help those of you in my classes to understand how to do these steps.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me or see me at class. I wish there was a set of official terms too, but until there is, each of us will just continue to do the best we can, interpreting all the step sheets to the best of our ability. This list will help you get through my classes. Side Rock Side Shuffle Side Together, Side Touch Skate Step Slide Step Step Turn Stomp Sweep Swivel Toe Strut Triple Step Twinkle Step Weave Wizard Steps.
I do want to credit D. In their book, there are actually a total of 85 different line dance steps mentioned. In addition to this, there are interspersed throughout about 10 additional line dance terms with thorough definitions. So please do pick up this book to have as a handy guide!
Super cheap too! So, to begin with we have a pretty tricky and difficult step! The step consists of taking a toe out to the side as the other heel comes into the instep. This is a very common and pretty easy step to add to your arsenal! It is just what you think! Just lift a foot and lightly kick, but brush the ball of your foot across the floor as you do so. This another pretty easy and common step!
For a right hip bump, adjusting the weight to your right foot and then bump your hip out to the right, same thing for the left! To perform a Charleston Step , in line dance: bring your right foot forward and touch, and then touch back, then touch your left toe back and then step forward onto your left foot. These last 3 get pretty fancy! This is an important concept, see the video at the end of this post by Patti Leathers as she does a great job explaining this and how it is important in line dance.
Same thing for going to the left. This is just lifting up one knee while hopping forward on the other leg. R Step back L step back together with right foot, R step forward. This can be done with the left foot as well. With the right or left foot, stepping in front and crossing the other foot. Crossing Shuffle — this is the same thing, but then a shuffle step of both feet still ending with the L or R foot crossed and in front of the other foot.
Behind, Side Cross — this is when you step behind on foot going either way. Already just mentioned above! I imagine typically both will swivel out at the same time. For the Toe Fan, with the heel stationary, you just rotate or swivel the toe outward. A Flick is basically just kicking or flicking either foot backward.
You would raise you foot and bend the knee. Grapevines are a way to travel to the right or left using four counts To do a grapevine to the right, start with weight on your left foot, step to your right with your right foot 1 then left foot steps behind 2 right foot steps to the side 3 and bring your left foot back to just touch 4.
Having just touched your left foot, your weight is still on your right foot, a grapevine to the left is now just the opposite. Step to the side with your left, step behind with your right, step again to the left, and touch with your right. A grapevine can alternatively be done with a brush or scuff as the 4th step instead of just the touch.
A Heel Grind is performed by putting your heel out in front and then with toe turned in a little turn toe out to the side. A Heel Jack is just putting your heel out in front and tapping your heel on the ground. But the video below shows how it might typically fit in with other steps, in the case shown, a grapevine.
With the weight on the balls of your feel swivel your heel out, away from each other and then swivel them back together! This is very simple! A Heel Strut is basically walking, but you start with what is a Heel Jack; tapping your heel out in front of you, and then completing a step. Just looks like a more dramatic step and also takes up 2 beats of music to complete. Usually just one, but possibly more depending on the choreography of the line dance. A Hook step is bending the knee of one leg and then crossing it in the air in front of and just below the other knee.
Notice Cindy in the video tapping her foot in both instances. A Jazz Box , also known as a Box Step is a way to basically make a box or a square with your steps. You begin with crossing over your right foot in front of your left first corner of the box Now step back a little with your left foot 2nd corner of the box Then return your right foot back next to your left foot 3rd corner of the box Lastly, cross over your left foot in front of your right foot 4th corner of the box.
This would be a Right Jazz Box, but to do a Left one, just start with the left foot crossing over the right. Step touch the left foot again to the right foot and then return it. Below is a quick demonstration video of the K-Step. A Kick-Ball Change is super common in line dances and a good beginner step to be familiar with.
It is performed by a low kick of the right foot forward, then return and step weight on the ball of the right foot. Then change weight back to the left foot. A Lock Step is like a shuffle step, but you step forward and step behind the first step. Then you stop your first foot out again.
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