Knights of Columbus
450 Lincoln Avenue
Bellevue, PA 15202-3631

7:30PM – 11:00PM

Music, line dancing, and good ol’ fun. Bring a friend, bring your boots. (We will add more information on the event as we have the details. Kalli and Amanda will be teaching some line dances through the night.)

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No cover charge or tickets needed, just a free will offering at the door is all that is asked. All proceeds benefit the Assumption Athletic Association. (The school that Amanda’s daughters attend.)

(This is a public event so please feel free to invite friends.)

You can RSVP through the facebook page if you’d like or share it with your friends: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204625766274051

Read more about it at the So You Think You Can Dance website.

Make sure you get out and dance.  I’m sure we’ll be doing just that at Saddle Ridge this weekend.  (I mean… after midnight tonight is July 30th so even if we’re only there tonight that counts as celebrating on July 30th I would think.)

I’m spending my night quite literally getting dizzy learning one of the versions of “Dizzy” done at Saddle Ridge. Thanks to our friend, Jenn, I finally got a step sheet so I could hunt down the right videos for it. I know a few folks I’ve talked to have wanted to learn this dance… so why re-invent the wheel when there is a good video out there already!

This version of Dizzy is choreographed by Jo Thompson. It is a 32-count, 4 wall, intermediate dance. If you would like to follow along with a step sheet, click here to get the search on Kick It.

It moves quickly so I recommend going through the instruction part of the video a few times first. Who knows… maybe we’ll teach this in the Tuesday Night “Line Dance Challenge” class…

(I’ve learned a few dances from the woman in this video so I think you’ll find it easy to follow.)

You can learn more about the dance studio here:
www.DancExplosionArts.com

You can download a PDF copy of the studio’s full schedule here: www.moonshineandwhiskey.com/schedule/DEAC_2011_2012.pdf

You can download a PDF copy of the country line dancing registration flier here:
www.moonshineandwhiskey.com/schedule/DEAC_Country_Line_Dance.pdf

Sessions are $65 for beginner, $75 for beginner + challenge class.
10% discount given to military, senior citizens, and DEAC families.

To register, you want to contact the dance studio to sign up. We won’t be able to register anybody ourselves. (Information is on the PDF above)

We’re super excited about this opportunity so I hope you join us!!

This dance can be used for numerous songs aside from “Mean.” We have used it to “Chicken Fried” and “What Was I Thinking?” to name a few. It is 48 count, 4 walls. I translated the step sheet (with Google Translator) and have posted it online here. We submitted it to Kick It to see if they’ll put it online since it wasn’t on their site yet… so we’ll see.

Here is our YouTube video. I apologize in advance for my inability to keep my balance (happens when I slow down the song) and inability to speak… It’s 90+ degrees today so I’m all melty in the brain. The dance is pretty easy once you get it down. I was able to learn it in one night. Just remember that it begins 4 counts after the initial lines that end with “picking on a weaker man.”

I’ve left the prior version of this post up in case you want to view it.

Admit it. You know you want to dislike this song. I know I do. But you’re probably like us and you can’t stop singing it. You know all the words. You sing it at the top of your lungs when the song comes on. And so… we had to look and see if there was a line dance written for it yet. And, of course, there is.

The videos we’ve found for this dance are all in German (or is that Dutch?). This video shows you the dance first and then there is a teaching lesson after it. The dance is 48-count/4-wall, beginner dance. It is choreographed by Zlatimir Geleta. The dance is pretty easy once you get it down. I was able to learn it in one night. Just remember that it begins 4 counts after the initial lines that end with “picking on a weaker man.” The only step sheet we can find right now is in Dutch. I was able to translate it with Google. I think if you click on this link you may need to run this page through Google Translator. I will get the English version up as soon as I can.

Get addicted and enjoy!

Update:  You can also use this dance to numerous songs.  We have used it to “Chicken Fried” by Zac Brown Band and “What Was I Thinking?” by Dierks Bentley.

If your dancing establishment doesn’t play “Askin’ Questions” by Brady Seals, you can also use this dance to “Wildflower” by the Jane Dear Girls.

If you want to view our older post on “Askin’ Questions”, click here. This has the original video we learned from and other commentary about learning from YouTube videos.

Enjoy!

Because of the repetition, we think this dance is good for beginners. As long as you get your bearing with your walls, you should be good to go on this one.

“Red High Heels” is the name of the dance and it’s choreographed by Moses Bourassa Jr. & Barbara Frechette. The step sheet for the dance is here.

And if you really wan to confuse the drunk girls when “Cowboy Casanova” comes on, learn this dance (Be warned, this can be considered an intermediate to advanced dance.):

The dance is named “Casanova Cowboy” and is definitely an Intermediate level dance. When we’re out, yes, we pick on the drunk girls. Maybe we’re mean. But we get entertained watching them drop off one by one when they realize they are too drunk to follow our feet and/or their stiletto heels won’t let them dance. So we find a sick pleasure in learning more difficult dances to the songs that get all the girls crazy (Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, etc.) because we know that by the midnight time, there is no way they are going to figure it out.

Judge us as you will… just learn the dance first.

The step sheet is here. Good luck! I find it hard to read through. It makes more sense after watching the video, though.

We do apologize for the technical problem in the middle of the video. For some reason the video started skipping. Since it’s a 13 minute long demo, I decided that it is repeated enough that everybody will be okay. If it’s not okay, we’ll refilm that part so let us know!!

Enjoy!

• Kalli and I are really tall so fitting us into the camera window is proving challenging. (She’s 6’0″ and I’m 5’10″.
• We need to focus on the feet more in the videos due to the above fact.
• Animals do not care if you are filming.

So today we have attempt #2 at filming a tutorial. This dance is a beginner level, 32 count and 4 wall dance to “All My Friends Say” by Luke Bryan. The dance itself is called “All My Friends” and is choreographed by David Pytka. You can download the step sheet here.

So here is my first attempt at teaching a line dance… ever… and yes, we had to leave the part with the cat running across the screen because it made us laugh a lot.

Comments are welcome! What can we do better? And yes, we are aware we have to do better with grabbing the footwork. This dance is pretty easy to learn so we didn’t think we had to re-film it totally. Hey, at least we didn’t film this one on an iPhone! We learned from the last time.