Id say some people know them some dont. Not a soul line danced in my old town besides sliding the left... now slide to right.... one hop this time, then I move to Texas go to the bar and theres a line dance for every single song even Nicki Minaj has line dances to her songs.
most people don't know how where im from, but there are bars and gatherings dedicated to line dancing and such. went to a bar one time and i was the youngest in there by about 20 years, and those old timers know how to move!
but they were more than willing to teach me too, which was very nice
there was a brief period in time where line dancing was popular in my neck of the woods (Coastal Southern California). I was too young for it but my older sibling was prime demographic. There are still parts of my general area that will enjoy it, but most of those people just move out of the state eventually.
I was part of the swing revival. I do not know country line dancing. I DO know the Cupid Shuffle. This is not part of everyone's repertoire throughout the US haha
Not going to lie, the funnest years of my life were spent in The Banque in Virginia Beach surrounded by other 20 somethings having the funnest years of their lives, stomping our feet and smashing the dancefloor to Copperhead Road. The way that last beat hits. Man, I'd give anything to go back and do it again!
Edit: this was the best video that wasn't a tutorial I could find but to give you an idea of the setting this is actually THE Banque I learned to line dance in.
Not sure on everyone since the USA is huge but when I was in jr high or late middle school (5/6th grade) we had to learn them in physical education. Wasn’t serious, just something to give kids to do that was physical and coordinated. 2001-2004 maybe. I’ve heard a lot of kids from the south also learned in P.E class but none of us really knew or danced. Also learned formal ball room for whatever reason
There are a handful of songs that have line dances. The specifics of each dance may be slightly different depending on where you go, but they’re all easy enough that you can get your bearings pretty quickly by just watching and following the people around you.
I live in the south, and there are many things I hate about it. This is not one of them. It’s an undeniably fun activity.
We all two step and line dance in the south USA, it is a lot of fun! Plus once everyone is good and sauced it turns into the dance everyone does at the end of the party.
It’s line dancing, I think. Popular amongst some folks - probably more in the south(?). In any case, not extremely widespread either. Growing up on Long Island, no one knew how to line dance lol
in western NY, it's called "Line Dancing", and it's part of the phys. ed. curriculum in gradeschool.
ETA: I don't recognize this particular song, but the common ones we did every year in my hometown were Cotton-Eye Joe, The Macarena, The Cupid Shuffle, and the Cha Cha Slide
Reminds me of when I was in my teens on South America.
After school TV was mostly just people dancing to popular songs. All the girls would basically just watch TV and dance after school. So when you went to parties on the weekend they all knew the songs choreographies and danced in sync.
Line dancing or square dancing. It's not just country. The electric slide is probably one of the more famous ones. Also you have the cha cha slide dance songs. That is a little more recent. Since then it's been mostly country music as line dance songs.
It’s called square dancing. It’s pretty simple and straightforward. You move in a square like this to the rhythm. Look it up, it’s pretty easy to learn, I’m sure there are tons of informationals on YouTube. They used to teach this in my elementary school for gym class. Decent low impact exercise I suppose. I’m not even in cowboy country either.
Line dancing is pretty cool like that--you learn the moves, and repeat them throughout the song over and over while spinning quarter turns each time. It can give you a ton of dancing confidence if you're new to dance. On that same thread, contra dance is really neat.
I grew up in rural Central Pennsylvania. But there's areas around me that are even more rural. My towns are like at the base of mountains in valleys. The other towns are in the mountains, but also valleys. I went to a high school in one of those towns for a year. I was shocked when I went to gym class & they told me students get to choose between practicing baseball or learning line dancing. It's important to tell you we have a lot of baseball fields everywhere. I lived within 10 blocks of at least 2 of them everywhere I've lived in this state. Anyway, I chose line dancing with 6 other kids.
The mountain areas are a different world. The boys showed up to school straight from their morning farm duties. They had their cowboy boots on. Some had the hats too. A few times someone rode their horse to school. And there's Amish buggies everywhere. In my area too. The buggy horses do a specific type of stomping on the road. Because the Amish replace their horseshoes more than the average non-Amish horse owner, you hear the metal clang of new horseshoes as if you should expect sparks to fly with every stomp. This country has a lot of areas in which the people live the same as Russia's farmers & rural areas. Maybe a little more wealth than them. But the lifestyles & old ways of living are the same.
It used to be like three songs. Now it’s most of them at the average wedding or public event. It’s ruined it for the people who don’t know all of them.
Line dancing is not some special Texas thing. Line dancing is more popular and immersed with country songs, so you will see it more often in Texas clubs, but we’re not gonna sit here and pretend that the Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, or Electric Slide are some kind of Texas thing. Same with the Macarena, Wobble, and Crank That, just going off the popular ones. And I say this as someone from Houston.
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u/Serenaded 6d ago
how do they all know the moves so well anyway. what is this, cowboy dancing? of all the things american's do, this is pretty cool.