Basic Line Dance Steps
Grapevine Right:
1. Step to your right with your right foot (putting your weight on your right foot).
2. Step behind your right foot with your left foot (putting your weight on your left foot).
3. Step again to the right with your right foot (weight on right)
4. Touch your left foot next to your right (with your weight staying on the right foot). Grapevines can also end with a stomp or scuff.
For a Grapevine Left repeat the above going left but switching to the other foot.
All Shuffle Steps are counted 1&2, which is three steps to two beats of music.
1 - Step forward on the right foot
& - Step the left foot next to the right (placing your weight on the left foot)
2- Step your right foot forward
Simply reverse the above for a left-right-left forward Shuffle Step. Shuffles can also be done backward or sideways.
Right Pivot Turn
1 - Step forward on the right foot (weight is forward on the right foot)
2 - 1/2 turn on the right foot to the left (weight is now on the left foot)
3 - Step forward again on the right foot (weight is forward)
4 - 1/2 turn on the right foot to the left (weight is on the left foot)
Left Pivot Turn
1 - Step forward with left foot (weight is forward on left foot)
2 - 1/2 turn to the right (weight is on right foot)
3 - Step forward with left foot(weight is forward on left foot)
4 - 1/2 turn to the right
The Military Pivot turn is also called by, PIVOT, MILITARY TURN, STEP TURN & STEP-PIVOT
Right Jazz Box
1 - Step forward with right foot
2 - Cross left foot over right foot (weight is on left foot)
3 - Step straight back with right foot (weight is on right foot)
4 - Bring left foot next to right (home position)
A three step sideways sequence in two beats. Described in New England as the "Sailor Step" but sometimes refered to as the "Sailor Shuffle" or "Cross-Ball-Change".
Sailor Step to the right - 1&2 = L,R,L
1 Step Left foot behind Right
& Step Right beside left
2 Step Left beside Right
For Sailor Step to the Left, simply reverse the foot order. Because the steps cause the dancer's body to sway, some people think this looks like a sailor trying to keep balanced on a pitching deck.
1. With your weight on the balls of your feet, swivel heels apart.
2. With your weight on the balls of your feet, swivel heels back together again.
Heel swivels do not necessarily mean that the heels go apart and then together, it can mean that they both go in the same direction:
1. With your weight on the balls of your feet, swivel both heels left.
2. With your weight on the balls of your feet, swivel heels to the centre.
3. With your weight on the balls of your feet, swivel both heels right.
4. With your weight on the balls of your feet, swivel heels to the centre.
You kick your right (or left) leg slightly forward, step down on the ball of that same foot for one beat, then quickly "change" weight to the opposite foot thus creating the kick-ball-change.
The counts for a right coaster step are 1&2, which is 3 steps to 2 beats of music.
1-Step back onto right foot, taking weight on your right foot.
&-Step left next to right, taking weight on the left foot.
2-Step right foot forward, taking weight on the right.
Reverse the steps for a left coaster step.