This is one of my fave things @Faye Fox, lets have a thread about it, I miss it so much! I'll start by just posting one of my faves to dance the cha cha to
Well, I am no expert on country dancing and not a good dancer by any stretch. Any dance that requires turning is out for me. I will find my old thread on denim so we can see how many here know what stacked jeans are without googling. We have a senior place around here that has country line dancing to live music once a month. I had much rather be playing the guitar and let others do the dancing.
I wish we had a dance place here with country music once a week, or twice, but too small of population. All the ones I see in videos are in the BIG city where I do NOT want to be, but I'll keep looking. I had one of my friend Shelly I shared a place with in Bend Oregon, a pic of us both dressed up to go out. Don't have it anymore, go sick of reminiscing, trying hard to look forward, well, maybe not trying hard enough
My ex-husband and I loved to dance. He was 6'2" and I am 5'2", so you can get a visual of that. That was back in the 80s when there was a country dance hall on every corner in Houston. Back then, Cotton-Eye Joe was "the" line dance. I love to see someone with rhythm on the dance floor, but those stiff, "watch my feet and count" people get on my nerves.
Hi Beth I'm out in the car now and don't know if this will come through okay but I'm glad you joined the thread and yes I can picture you and your husband dancing together I bet you were adorable and I danced with a few taller guys and I was the only short one in the family both my brothers and my sisters were all but my sister was 5'10 two brothers over 6 ft and I was a shorty 5'2 anyway I got to go and do a workout and then I'll be home again and I'll get back online I'd love to live in Texas I thought about it cuz I have a girlfriend that lives in one of the suburbs pretty girl suburb of fort Worth fort Worth Dallas whatever anyway I will catch up with you later Denise oh I forgot to mention I heard the video Cotton eye Joe and them dancing to it I'd never heard of it before and then you mentioned it ❤️
Well, another thread that caught my eye! Years ago, back in the 80's thru the 90's into the early 2000's, I use to country dance quite a bit...........and was good at it! Never done any Line Dancing, but 2-Step, Texas Swing, Cotton Eye Joe I done. I even went to a few after-rodeo dances, but didn't dance. Was too busy talking to other contestants. My wife went dancing a whole lot at local country-western nightclubs, with mainly Line Dancing. Some of them, I must've been at, but didn't know her then. On our first date, she took me to a country-western nightclub, where her older sister and her husband and her niece and her husband were at. Wife and I had just done a fairly fast 2-Step, with her niece watching, when her niece walked up to her and said "He's a keeper" to her. Guess her niece liked the way I danced a 2-Step. She was wearing either a Resistol Straw or Black Felt cowboy hat, Roper jeans and we bought her a pair of Ariat Lace-Up Roper boots (she got rid of her pointed boots........thank God) LOL. She wore this attire each and every time we went to a rodeo or dancing. In 2005, I had a hip replacement and the following year, a right shoulder rotator cuff surgery. Our dancing days ended after that. We don't know about anywhere else, but where we currently live, that country-western dancing thing, including Line Dancing, has gone away pretty much and rock & roll dancing taken over. And, on top of that, very few folks wear western attire to a nightclub anymore (here, that is).
Thats the same heights as us @Beth Gallagher and we have some issues with our ballroom dancing cause he’s got big feet size 13 shoe and I take a 7 so almost half the size of his shoes so his feet get in-my way at times with some of the dances I used to enjoy swapping a dance with a friends husband cause I could look him in the eye he was the same height as me he sadly died about 7 years ago this is one of the many dances we do ( I believe this lady is deceased now)
Hubby and I took line dancing lessons about 20 years ago. We met with a group once a week. Started slow and got faster and more involved as we progressed. But I needed more practice and hubby only danced with me that once a week so after a while, I handed him off to a friend to dance with so eventually we stopped going. It was fun while it lasted and the boys and girls were pretty evenly matched as opposed to this clip: I could waltz pretty well and definitely polka though, which hubby was not inclined to do. Maybe a good twist?
A vicious rumor has it I was seen at the Benton County Fair and Rodeo street dance, scuffing some asphalt with a younger man, a accusation I will neither confirm or deny, despite video evidence. The only dancing I have done in the last 30 years has been street dancing after fairs, parades, and rodeos.
I'd love to live near a town that has something like this crowd, and that sort of weather. Looks like warm to hot Summer nights
I really thought I would never be able to dance again with a man as I was so scared my hands would kill me with the arthritis that developed in them. It's gone, just a little soreness, but rarely, since I lowered my carb/sugar intake, and also started weight-training. I'd almost forgotten about being so afraid to go out somewhere like @Faye Fox video above!