“After Five Stomp” (sometimes also called the “Five O’clock Stomp”) is a dance that we tend to recommend to beginners. You can use it to so many different songs out there. At Saddleridge, we see it done to “Redneck Woman”, “Little White Church”, and “All Jacked Up” just to name three. It’s pretty easy to learn since it’s only 32 counts and it mirrors its steps left and right. If you use it with the right song (“Little White Church”), you can work up quite a sweat.
The dance is choreographed by Diane Horner, and you can find the step sheet here.
The video below shows the dance as written. Whenever we teach the dance, we use vacation #1 mentioned on the step sheet. In this variation, both of your feet travel to the right and then to the left for counts 13-16.
This week Kalli and I hope to start filming our own tutorials so we can rewrite some of these listings. This will be one of the ones we will film for you so you don’t have to imagine what the variation looks like.
Do you use the “After Five Stomp” to any other songs? One of the things we see online a lot in question/answer forums from folks are “what other songs can we use that dance too?”. So we love when folks share with us on Facebook or on the blog listing here what else they see. We certainly know that every place is different so it’s fun for us to learn as well.
Until next time! (When hopefully we’re sharing with you our OWN videos)