InLineDancing

A Beginner Needs to Know

It is very easy to learn. You'll soon be dancing even if you've never danced before. If it's your first class and New Beginner class or a social event for non-dancers, I guarantee you'll be dancing within 5 minutes of starting to learn at your first line dance!

It is a good form of general keep-fit and as much (or as little) exercise as you want to put into it. It is now recommended by many doctors for gentle heart and lung exercise, for keeping you supple and exercising those muscles. This is particularly beneficial if you do no other form of exercise. You can put as much or as little energy into your dancing as you like - and remember to smile while you dance!

Also it is excellent for exercising your memory when learning the dances as well as exercise for your legs. The dances aren't long at all but learning a new dance and brushing up on old ones and reviewing recent ones all help.

Co-ordination is a big part of what is helped in Line Dancing

.There are always new line dances being written or a great dance track in the pop charts. Beginner dances take only 5 minutes to teach before we are actually dancing them to music.

Line dance to great music! We use anything from soul, R&B, country, new country and country rock, rock, pop, from jive from the 50s to this week's pop and album chart-toppers together with music from around world including Irish, Latin, salsa ... and more!

... oh yes ... and did I say it's great fun!!!

Come and meet with others in your locality and maybe make some new friends too. If you are new, do go up to someone you don't know and say hello and introduce yourself.Line dancing has proved to be something all ages can enjoy from 12 onwards with no upper age limit! I remember one lady who had two crutches and yet she still managed to do a few grapevines and join in.

Why Dance

Try a Beginner's class to start with and expect to spend a few weeks getting used to the style of dance and getting in some practice.
A Beginner's Class will include dances for those who have done no line dancing before and want to learn both the basic steps (such as the grapevine, the shuffle and the pivot turn) and some great dances that everyone can do right from the first evening.
Each week, expect to

learn one dance new to everyone (newcomers and older-hands alike),
review dances taught in the last few weeks so you'll be able to learn them if you missed a week
and there will also be a reminder for older and more familiar dances that have been taught and reviewed before.

When you start line dancing....

Don't expect to be able to do ALL the dances on your first evening! Do one or two (ask the instructor which ones are best tackling if you are new). Sit out and watch. You can learn a lot from watching others.
Wear the right shoes, ones that have some "slip" on a wooden floor. You can't dance in trainers unless the dance floor is very slippery!! Wear shoes with a smooth sole or a leather sole.
Remember to drink something during the evening as all forms of exercise, including dancing, will make you warm. If the venue does not have a bar, take something to drink. Non-alcoholic drinks are better for quenching your thirst and even just plain water tastes great when you are warm.
Come back a second week and it'll seem more familiar. It usually takes a few weeks just to get used to line dancing and to get those brain cells into gear too - especially the ones that tell your feet what to do! But by then you'll know the names of some steps. Learning the names of dances takes a few more weeks!!

Absolute Beginners progress to Beginners pretty quickly. If you start attending a Beginner's class, don't expect to learn every dance in your first few evenings!

Many people are happy to attend just the Beginner's Hour because the dances are easy to learn, not difficult, so you can soon enjoy dancing them to the music.

Beginners-Intermediates, sometimes called Improvers or a Step Further is a continuation of the Beginners hour and includes some more dances progressing to the next level up from Beginner. This part of the evening is especially for those at beginner/intermediate and intermediate level dancers - which is the level the vast majority of line dancers are at. Dances beyond Intermediate level (Intermediate/Advanced or Advanced) are quite rare.

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