When Are You A Dancer?

When Are You A  Dancer?

This question was mentioned this week what makes a dancer?

Someone said this week that your not a dancer unless you can dance to live bands as well as the song that are attached to a particular dance. by that they meant reconise the beats per minute in the song so you can pick a dance to do to the song when the band is playing live.

I personally not agree with this you can be a really good dancer, know all the dances, know what you can and can't dance to within the club or Social night out. if you don't or maybe can't get to hear live bands play it doesn't make you any less of a dancer. Music is music weather live or on disc, it's what you do when the music is playing that counts.

Are Some Dances Just Crazy?

Our club are doing a dance called Backwards this is the dance that the line dance troop did on Britain's Got Talent, on Copperknob  the dance is listed as the fastest dance in the world, there's not much to the dance it is just the speed of the dance,the members can do the dance but it is a struggle and to me dancing should be enjoyable not a battle to get all the steps in as fast as you can, the other thing people might not have thought of is you could get injured trying to do the steps.

Wednesday Afternoon Dance Class

On Wednesday we did a lot of the old dances we haven't done for sometime, and it's only when you do the dance you remember how much you liked the dance, this could be because the are so many dance coming out every week that we get a dance overload. Here are some of the dance we did.

We will start with a new dance we first did on Monday two week ago. And with the Bank Holiday I forgot to put it on the blog. It's calledCame Out Like A Rose .

And many more all the dance sheet can can be obtained from www.copperknob.co.uk
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When Are Old Dances New Dances

 

 When Are Old Dances New Dances

The thought came to me last night when we were doing dances from 18 to 20 years old, and while the veterans of the line dancing club remembered them after a while, spare a thought for the other people that have been dancing for about 5 years. I have done some of the older dances, but the ones we did last night I have never heard of, I and other members hadn't even heard the music before so to us they were all new dances. You can a have good dance live on for years, as new people come into line dancing they start with the older beginners dances, like Ribbon of highway, Cowgirl Twist, cowboy charleston may be some newer beginner dances, but the point is we all have to learn the dances and just because the dance is 18 years old is doesn't mean there not any good, a dance I hadn't heard of until last year was T Bone Shuffle I'm not when it came out but I heard this music and people started to dance to the music, I asked someone about the dance and I told told it's be out for ages but to me I had to learn that dance on that night as something completely new and why if you go to a line dance club there is always something you can learn.

Last Nights Dances

Lover's Hideaway
Dance Sheet

End Of My  RainbowDance Sheet

Other Dance Were

Baby Kisses | Fall In Love | One Shot | Blue Blue Day | Come As You Are | Dixie Rd |                        A Little Bit Gypsy | Joyride | That's Where I'll Be | Cha Lay Low | This Is Me | Silver Lining | and we did  | Bread On The Table | for the first in a while but we got it in the end. We may have done more dances but I can't remember them?

The Blog Goes On

The Blog Must Go On?

Hello all my fellow members unfortunately I was not in class last night I was unwell but I have all the inside gossip, and what the new dance is called, the one the class did last night.

It was nice to welcome Mavis back; she has not been well for some time, it was good to see her dancing again.
The class did some revision work going over some of the recent dances such as Oh Fiona, Nobody’s Fool and  Silver Lining, see Links at the bottom of this page,
I have yet see the new dance it's called "The Song" the music is by Gary Barlow. see links below.

Margaret  Gough, the instructor and owner has sent me all the information in an email this is so the blog keeps the continuity for the members who live either else where in the UK and in Europe.

 Oh Fiona   

 Dance Sheet       

No Body's Fool
Dance Sheet

Silver Lining
Dance Sheet

The Song
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Monday Night We Worked Hard

Monday Night We Worked Hard

This is the Blog for Monday 4th Nov 2013. Well it was a cold night out there, the coldest night of the year around here this year. the turn out was good for a cold night and some members are away on holiday. We also had some new dances please see the link lower down this blog. 

I would like to talk about us humans for a bit we are still animal by nature and like to cuddle up to the fire when the weather turns cold. as I have just mentioned it we all came out on a cold night but I nearly stayed in ( I begin the website administrator) but I went and I enjoyed the night, it proved to me that we would all like to stay in doors when it's cold and hibernate, but if you push yourself you will find that you had a great time, I found the same when I did sports didn't fancy training but like it when I got there basically we are all a bit lazy on a cold night.

 Still Dreaming
Dance Sheet

Blueberry Chill
Dance Sheet

We was going to look at another dance but didn't have time to learn it, I think it worth look at it. I love the music so that helps because the dance  looks tricky but as yet I haven't dance it so Margaret will disagree I'm sure. Tell me what you think via comments on the website  or face book.

2 Good 4 Goodbye
Dance Sheet

 Other dance we did were  That's Where I'll Be,Shoebox,  Silver Lining,  Long Time Gone, and many more click labels to find links.

When Is Line Dancing Not Line Dancing?

When Is Line Dancing Not Line Dancing?

The blog head line does raise a good question? What is true Line Dancing, and does pop music really lend it's self to line Dancing. Well that will always be a matter for the individual, personally I don't think in general let's say top 40 chart music doesn't, if you listen to the music and watch the videos a lot of the dances are struggling to make the dance steps firstly fit, secondly flow, I say this because it is so important for a dance to flow through to the end of the dance. I don't have and dis-like for pop music I like all genre's and there are a few good pop songs that fit well to line dancing Olly Mur, is a good example of a pop song as opposed to a whole genre of music.

When it comes to line dancing it was made for the songs, and weather you like that individual song it would fit a dance, and flow through the whole song. This can be back up because when you go to a live band event you can dance many of the well know dances and do them to many different country songs, and in my own experience you can't easily do this with pop songs because mainly the dance is design to fit that one song, and even then they are having to put up to three or four restarts in a dance to fit that one song. We did a dance called The Boys Of Summer,(see link below) and in a way it proves my point, you are dancing the dance in the second half of the dance without any tempo to listen to, musical phrasing when away and you were left to count the eight beats sections that isn't line dancing. You can write you views in the comments or go to FaceBook country roots line dance club.

Boys of Summer

Boys Of Summer Dance Sheet

The Boys of Summer is a dance where the Phasing goes out and you find yourself having to count the beats for about a minute because you will go out in your timing.It might Grow on you as a dance only time will tell.

Sliver Lining
Silver Lining Dance  Sheet
The dance Silver Lining in a nice dance with just one tricky part which you will need to work at but will come with practice, the rest of the dance is fine and the music is nice.