Line dancing

Learn here all about line dancing. There are instructional videos here as well as write ups on the history of line dancing and links to line dancing products, news and blogs.

Line dancing is western country dancing where the dancers move in unison in lines that resemble military formations. Variations have been seen in a 1970s disco dance called The Hustlehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFz2WkVAk38 and in a 1990s pop dance called The Macarena.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlzwuFkn88U These dances are done in bars, saloons and dance halls, at parties and at celebrations like weddings and graduation parties.

People have been line dancing since the beginning of written records of human activity. Line dancing in the form we see in bars and saloons today closely resembles what were called Contra Dances in New England in the early 1800s. They were called contra dances because they were in the form of two opposing lines -- one line for the men and one line for the women. Sometime in the late 1800s Chorus Lines evolved from Contra Dances. In the 1940s the Contra dance was brought into popularity again as The Stroll. John Travolta does The Stroll in the movie Grease. By the 1970s, The Stroll had morphed into the type of line dancing that is popular today.http://www.country-time.com/ldinfo/history.htm