A line dance is a choreographed dance with a sequence of repetitive steps in which a group of people dances in one or more rows or rows, all facing each other or in the same direction, and carrying out the steps at the same time. Unlike circle dancing, line dancers do not contact each other physically.
The dancing line is a dance form that occurs with a group of people. The participants line up in rows and perform the same moves in a synchronized way.
Everyone is dancing alone, side by side, facing the same direction in line or line..... Each dance consists of a sequence of steps repeated throughout the music. Although a variety of music can be used, the main emphasis is on country-and-western music.
The dancing line involves people standing in line and performing dance moves together. It consists of patterned foot movements that are usually done for a number of counts per sequence, and then the sequence is repeated. The dance is done one wall, two walls, or four walls. "
Dancing lines are practiced and studied in country-west dance bars, social clubs, dance clubs and ballrooms. Sometimes combined with dance programs with other forms of country-western dance, such as two-step, western promenade dance, as well as western-style variants of waltz, polka and swing. Dance lines have accompanied many styles of popular music since the early 1970s including pop, swing, rock and roll, disco, Latin (salsa suelta), rhythm and blues and jazz.
Dances such as Cha Cha Slide, Electric Slide, and Cupid Shuffle are some of the dance lines that have survived in modern American culture for many years.
Video Line dance
History
"The most direct line dancing came down from the 1970s disco era, when the Americans saw new dances emerge", including the Electric Slide, "in the same era, the country-and-west line dance appeared," including Walkin 'Wazi and Cowboy Boogie. "Some claim that line dance finds its roots in the folk dance of history, others say it comes from contemporary discos.Whatever the source, the popularity and growth of line dance has been tied to country-and-western music." Since its birth, "line dancing begins to incorporate many musical styles in addition to the country... Country music is beginning to appear on the pop charts, and line dancing starts across income, race, age, and gender limits... Now the dancing line is considered a form art by itself, with its own terminology and standard steps. "
"If you ask 10 people with knowledge of when the line dance begins, you may get 10 different answers", including:
- "In the 1800s, European immigrants traveled west to North America, carrying cultural riches, including native dances such as polka and waltz, whose movements merged and evolved into so-called round and square dances. that this dance style introduces the terms and steps used in today's country line dance. "
- "Some people feel it is the cowboys on the western border, from the 1860s to the 1890s, who took a more traditional dance movement and assimilated them into western-country styles."
- "Others believe that settlers of western countries, such as Texas and Oklahoma, have to credit [sic] with simple footwork and state talent that reflect their time culture."
- "In the early 1900s, schools began to incorporate folk dances in their physical education programs, many believed that American soldiers returning home from the war affected the spread of line dance after being introduced to traditional European folk dance because of the large number of youths learning country-western dance, its popularity is growing in social and recreational activities. "
- There are those people, "who believe that the popularity of line dancing actually evolved from the disco era...... The line dance was done for disco-style music."
- "Many say that 'Achy Breaky Heart' is a major turning point in the popularity of line dance."
1950s-1970
Madison was a popular line dance in the late 1950s. The 1961 "San Francisco Stomp" meets the definition of line dance. At least five line dances closely associated with country-western music were written in the 1970s, two of which are dated 1972: "Walkin 'Wazi" and "Cowboy Boogie", five years before the crazy disco created by the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977, the same year (forecast) "Tush Push" was made. The Electric Slide is a dance line of Disco made and popularized in the mid-1970s. "L.A. Hustle" started in a small Los Angeles disco in the Summer of 1975, and hit the East Coast (with modified steps) in Spring '76 as "Bus Stop". Another 70's dance line is Nutbush.
1980s
More than a dozen dance lines were created during the 1980s for country songs. The 1980 movie Urban Cowboy reflects the obscure lines of country and pop music, and spurs new interest in country culture, and western fashions, music, and dance. Many of the early line dances, though, are adaptations of the disco line dance. "Boot Scootin 'Boogie" was choreographed by Bill Bader in October 1990 for the original Asleep on the Wheel recording a song of the same name. The Brooks and Dunn versions of the song resulted in at least 16 dance lines with Boogie Boot "Boot Scootin" in the title, including one by Tom Maddox and Skippy Blair under contract to the record company. The Chicken Dance is an example of line dance adopted by Mod Revival during the 1980s.
1990s
Billy Ray Cyrus' 1992 hit "Achy Breaky Heart" helped catapult western dance into the mainstream public consciousness. In 1994 the choreographer, Max Perry, held a worldwide dance performance with "Swamp Thang" for the song "Swamp Thing" by The Grid. This is a techno song that unites the banjo in melodic lines and helps start a dance trend into a form of music other than the country. In the mid-1990s, western music was influenced by the popularity of line dance. The influence was so great that Chet Atkins was quoted as saying, "The music is very bad, I think, it's all a damn dance line."
Max Perry, along with Jo Thompson Szymanski, Scott Blevins, and several others, began using rhythm and ballroom techniques to dance the line to the next level. In 1998, the Steps band created further interest outside the US with a techno dance song "5,6,7,8". In 1999 the Gap retailer debuted the "Khaki Country" commercial at the Academy Awards ceremony. Dancers perform for the 1999 version of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Dwight Yoakam.
Macarena was a hit based on line dance in the mid-1990s.
The line of dancing reached Europe, maintained by the arrival of Country Music Television, and in 2008 received attention from the French government.
Baris Dance now has a very traditional dance for country music, and the dance is not so traditional for non-country music. Now using more than just country music "stereotypes", in fact dancers dance to most styles of music: the country as well as modern pop music, Irish, Latin just to name a few.
Based on per capita ratings of MeetUp Groups in the United States, Durham, N.C. expressed as the capital of American line dancing in 2014. some dance lines involve a lot of movement including cha cha slides and other movements using side-to-side movement.
The full motion picture, LineDance the Movie is a good example of the type of dance involved, the movie can be found on IMDb,
Maps Line dance
Wall
Each dance is said to consist of a number of walls . The wall is the direction in which the dancers face at a certain time: the front (the direction faced at the beginning of the dance), the back or one side. Dancers can change the course repeatedly for a sequence, and perhaps even, at a certain point, facing halfway between two walls; but at the end of the sequence, they will face the original wall or one of the other three. Any existing wall, the next iteration of the sequence using the wall as a new frame of reference.
- In one-wall dance, dancers face the same direction at the end of the sequence as in the beginning (no turns or full rotation, 360 degrees).
- In the two-wall dance, the repetition of the sequence ends alternately behind and the front wall. In other words, the dancers have effectively turned 180 degrees during a set (half round). The samba line dance is an example of a two-wall dance. When performing the "volte" step, the dancers rotate 180 degrees to face the new wall.
- In the four-wall dance, the direction at the end of the sequence is 90 degrees to the right or left of the direction they are facing at the beginning (quarter turnover). As a result, the dancers face each of the four walls in turn at the end of four successive recurrences, before returning to the original wall. The hustle line dance is an example of a four-walled dance because in the last image they change 90 degrees to the left to face the new wall. In some dances, they change 270 degrees, "three quarters of a turn," to face new walls.
See also
- Step dance
- Riverdance
References
External links
- "The complete list of official line of dance world records:" World's Largest Dance Line "and" World's Largest Dance "(according to Guinness and also before Guinness's world record for line dancing)
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