SATURDAYS, 11:30am-12:30pm 

The Enrichment Academy offers hundreds of special interest classes and courses. Because The EA compensates those who teach their classes, students must pre-register and pay to attend courses.

There are many daily free beginner line dance classes at various rec centers throughout The Villages, but they can be quite crowded and new students will share the floor with seasoned dancers. This can be intimidating to those who are just starting out.

My Introduction To Line Dance class is smaller, friendly, and informal, and everyone is starting together. In each six week semester, I teach many common beginner steps and several dances. The pace is slow and we do lots of repetition because the emphasis is on committing to memory the beginner steps that are the building blocks of line dancing.

You can preview steps in my newest tutorial video, made especially for my EA students.

My next Introduction To Line Dance semester will begin in October, and will be held at Pimlico Recreation Center (near the high school on 466).

CLASS NEWS

We took a group photo of all the students who were in class on the last day. I hope you enjoyed class as much as I did, and that you will continue to line dance here in The Villages.

Some of our line dance students this semester attended my hybrid line dance/cardio drumming social on the Memorial Day weekend. They did some line dancing (everything we have done in class) and also gave cardio drumming a whirl.

Weekly Summary Spring/Summer Semester, 2022

Week 6: One new 32 count dance, which we then combined with another 32 count dance to make an easy beginner 64 count dance! You CAN do it! Congratulations to everyone on your accomplishment, doing (and doing, and doing) the beginner steps that are the foundation for line dancing. Once you are confident in these steps, there will be no stopping you!

Week 5: Two new dances this week, both with many of the same steps: hip bumps, K step, V step, basic right, and basic left with a 1/4 turn. Especially in beginner dances this will happen frequently, and it's the reason that it's so important to drill these basic steps into your brain and your muscle memory. We did All In One (Part A) as one wall first, then added the basic with the 1/4 turn. After a short break, we did Booty To The Floor AB, which also has a reverse rumba box (back box step). We finished with a review of Swingin' Thing.

Week 4: Our new dance this week is Lonely Drum EZ, which introduces toe struts. These and other steps are in my tutorial video; click on the link in red above. We reviewed the one-wall version of Swingin' Thing, and also learned about "contra" dances. Click HERE and go to 3:47 to see a short clip of Swingin' Thing done contra (in facing lines) at our last hybrid social. In class today I mentioned Copperknob, the line dance step sheet archive website. Click HERE to see the home page.

Week 3: After Cupid Shuffle as our warm-up dance, we did one new dance called Second Step Blues, consisting of all step, touch patterns (in 48 counts, woo hoo!). Click HERE to see my demo and tutorial videos. We also reviewed the one-wall version of Swingin' Thing.

Week 2: Lots of review of individual steps and one new dance called Swingin' Thing. Click HERE to see my tutorial video.

Week 1: Our first class of this semester is in the bag! Thanks to everyone who came to class and congratulations for taking your first steps on the road to learning to line dance (click HERE to see my tutorial video of First Steps. Today we did several basic steps and three dances, including Cupid Shuffle. Don't expect to remember them all (or any!) until next week--we'll do them all again, and perhaps add something more if we feel we're ready.

Here's a photo I received from a student who's REALLY SERIOUS about practicing V steps in the kitchen <g>