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Name: Coline U. Rosario Date: August 27, 2019 Grade & Section: STEM HEA-1 Teacher: Mr. Renato Malco Jr. Different Kind of Line Dances

The document discusses different types of line dances, providing descriptions of 14 specific line dances. It summarizes each dance's origins, movements, and music. The dances mentioned include the Electric Slide, Cha Cha Slide, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Chicken Dance, Hokey Pokey, Hustle, Macarena, Tush Push, Stroll, Hora, Hoedown Throwdown, and Cupid Shuffle. Line dances involve groups of people dancing synchronized steps in one or more lines while facing the same direction.

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Name: Coline U. Rosario Date: August 27, 2019 Grade & Section: STEM HEA-1 Teacher: Mr. Renato Malco Jr. Different Kind of Line Dances

The document discusses different types of line dances, providing descriptions of 14 specific line dances. It summarizes each dance's origins, movements, and music. The dances mentioned include the Electric Slide, Cha Cha Slide, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Chicken Dance, Hokey Pokey, Hustle, Macarena, Tush Push, Stroll, Hora, Hoedown Throwdown, and Cupid Shuffle. Line dances involve groups of people dancing synchronized steps in one or more lines while facing the same direction.

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Name: Coline U.

Rosario Date: August 27, 2019


Grade & Section: STEM HEA-1 Teacher: Mr. Renato Malco Jr.
Different Kind of Line Dances
A line dance is a choreographed dance with a repeated sequence of steps in which a group of
people dance in one or more lines or rows, all facing either each other or in the same direction,
and executing the steps at the same time. Line dancing involves people standing in lines and
performing dance movements together. It consists of patterned foot movements that are usually
performed to a number of counts per sequence, and then the sequence is repeated. The dances are
done one-wall, two-wall, or four-wall.
 The Electric Slide
The Electric Slide is one of the most commonly-learned line dances. It is a four wall line
dance set to Marcia Griffiths and Bunny Wailer's song "Electric Boogie". The electric slide is an
80s old hip-hop dance when you face every wall in the room going leaning with your feet
moving.
 The Cha Cha Slide
The Cha Cha Slide has a funky beat and is easy to learn because the song's lyrics provide
guidance to what you have to do next. It got its start in Chicago, at Bally’s Total Fitness club in
1996. Fitness trainer David Wilson wanted a new routine for his aerobics class, according to an
interview on the podcast “Every Little Thing.” It is a song that is instantly recognizable and
accessible for dancers, with synchronized clapping and the commands of DJ Casper
reverberating across the dance floor.
 Cotton-eyed Joe
"Cotton-Eyed Joe" has inspired both a partner
dance and more than one line dance that is often
danced at country dance venues in the U.S. and
around the world. It is a traditional American country
folk song popular at various times throughout the
United States and Canada, although today it is most
commonly associated with the American South. In
the Roud index of folksongs it is No. 942.
 Chicken Dance
The "Chicken Dance", also known as the Bird Song, the Birdie Song or the Chicken Song, is
an oom-pah song and its associated fad dance is now a contemporary dance throughout the
Western world. The song was composed by accordion (Handharmonika) player Werner Thomas
from Davos, Switzerland in the 1950s.

 Hokey Pokey
In hokey pokey, you put your right foot in, you take your right foot out, you put your right
foot in and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. You
put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all
about. Composer Al Tabor was also entertaining Canadian troops in wartime London, and in
1942 he wrote a dance song called "The Hokey Pokey."
 The Hustle
The hustle is a catchall name for some disco dances which were extremely popular in the
1970s. Today it mostly refers to the unique partner dance done in ballrooms and nightclubs to
disco music. It has some features in common with mambo, salsa and swing dance. Its basic steps
are somewhat similar to the discofox, which emerged at about the same time and is more familiar
in various European countries. In the 1970s there was also a line dance called the hustle.

 Macarena
The Macarena dance is a simple dance that consists of a variety of hand and hip movements
similar to a line dance. Each cycle of the dance ends with a ninety degree rotation of the body,
and the dance is then repeated. Extend your left arm straight out at shoulder level while turning
your palm upward.
 Tush Push
A Line Dance which is named after a common element of pushing ones tush.

 The Stroll
The Stroll was both a slow rock 'n' roll dance and a song that was popular in the late 1950s.
In the dance two lines of dancers, men on one side and women on the other, face each other,
moving in place to the music. Each paired couple then steps out and does a more elaborate dance
up and down between the rows of dancers. Dick Clark noted the similarity of the dance to the
Virginia reel. It was first performed to "C. C. Rider" by Chuck Willis on American Bandstand.
Link Wray's "Rumble" was also a popular tune for doing the stroll.

 The Hora
Hora, folk dance of Romania and Israel, performed in a linked circle. The most popular
Romanian hora, the Hora Mare, or Great Hora, is danced both on special occasions such as
weddings and for relaxation. It is a metaphor for the community: the circle opens to admit nubile
women, adolescent boys entering manhood, and those ending mourning; conversely, it shuts out
anyone who has violated local moral standards.

 Hoedown Throwdown
"Hoedown Throwdown" is a song performed by American recording artist Miley Cyrus. It is an
instructional dance song with a hybrid of country and hip hop. The choreography was designed
by Jamal Sims and incorporates line dance influences.

 Cupid Shuffle
The Cupid Shuffle is a song by the rapper Cupid, and it's been a party staple. Not only is it a
fun, addicting song, but it has its own dance that gets everyone grooving in sync. By learning the
steps beforehand, you can dance confidently and skillfully as the life of the party.

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