Line dance

• Line dance


  • people dancing in lines to music
  • Choreographed dances with the repeating series of steps that are performed in unison by a group of people in lines or rows
  • Most often without the dancers making contact with one another
• Folk dancing


  Believed to be the origin of line dance
• Contra dancing


  A form of American folk dance where dancers form two parallel lines and perform a sequence of dance movement with different partners
• Popular song in line dance

  • Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus (1992)
  • Macarena
  • disco era in 1980s - 90s
• Line dancing is ideal for singles and non-dancers because its steps are simple and do not involve dancing with partner.
• Line dance format

  • focus on movements of legs and feet
  • Advanced dances including arms and hands
  • COUNTS ; movements of line dance (one beat = one count)
• Basic line dance steps

  • cha cha
  • Charleston
  • Grapevine
  • Kick ball challenge
  • rumba box
• Benefits of line dancing

  • easy to follow and do because of repeated and group performance
  • Ideal for singles and non-dancers
  • Has good progression because it has different levels of difficulty
  • Social dance that can be easily followed