American Line dance
- Created by: Lone-wanderer
- Created on: 06-04-15 16:08
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- American Line dance
- Origins
- Folk dance
- Sinmilarities to Barn dance
- Mainly country and western music
- Sometimes Rock and roll or disco
- Key features
- A caller who demonstratesand calls the steps
- Simple melodies
- Lyrics tell a story
- Counts- number of beats needed to complete one sequence of the dance
- Basic is one repetition of main dance
- Restart is when the dance is started again
- Instruments
- Electric rock band instruments
- Fiddle
- Banjo
- Steel guitar
- Steps
- Men and women in mixed lines facing the same way, same steps
- Movement concentratedon legs and torso
- Each dance consists of a number of walls (way the dancers are facing)
- A one wall dance means that dancers face the same way at the start and end of a sequence
- Popularity
- Became more popular as a result of John Travolta films
- Billy Rae Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart dance furthered popularity
- Origins
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