05/11/24 Thanks to all who came out to dance on Bonfire Night. New dance this week was WHY WHY LEFT (Kate Sala). I sometimes think it’s easy for instructors to get a little obsessed with dance charts. If you search a little harder, you can often find good dances that never make the top 20. After looking at this one, I thought the dance was interesting enough, the music was decent and more importantly, my intermediate class might like it. I think they did.

Why Why Left step shet

We also danced: Two Hearts On A Highway, Diamonds In A Whiskey Glass, Five Leaf Clover, Slam Goes The Door, Love Somebody, Liquor Talking, If I Don’t, Till You Can’t/Take It, Troubled Waters, Sin City Lights, A Story Told, Am I Okay, In Walked You, Made For Dancing, Drop It Down, Road To Hana, Listen To My Heart, Die With A Smile, Memory Lane, Still Somewhere, Beautiful Scars, Before You Leave Me, Full Throttle, Heartbreak Disco and Wait For You.

29/10/24 STILL SOMEWHERE (Ria Vos) Having done two dances last week, it was good to have a straightforward 32 count dance with no tags or restarts this week. And being a nightclub two-step, it also meant a change to a much gentler tempo. A lovely track too. Seemed to go down fairly well with a lot back on the floor to dance it again.

Still Somewhere step sheet

We also danced: Heartbreak Express, Amazing Faith, A Rattlesnake Kiss, Do It With Passion, Tailgate 88, Second Hand Heart (recapped), To Be Blunt, Straight Line, Am I Olkay, Made For Dancing, Versions Of You, Changed Everything, Die With A Smile, Wait For You, Hands In The Mud, Wreckage, Road To Hana, Heartbreak Disco, Troubled Waters, Before You Leave Me, Beautiful Scars and Men On A Mission.

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04/11/24 A second go at last week’s new dance Tippin’ It Up week and we also danced: Ribbon Of Highway, Jealous Of The Sun, Thank You, Little Heartbreak, Space In My Heart, This & That, Hold Me Now, Eyes Like Diamonds, and Heaven’s Jukebox.

28/10/24 New one this week was TIPPIN’ IT UP (Gary O’Reilly). It’s been quite a while since I did an Irish themed dance at this class. And although there were a few little murmurs when I mentioned it had a tag that’s danced four times, they seemed to enjoy this one and we danced it twice.

Tippin It Up step sheet

Also danced: Some Kind Of Wonderful, Impossible Love, Take A Breather, Things, A Rattlesnake Kiss, Cross My Heart and Champagne Promise.

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04/11/24 We had another go at last week’s new dance, Tippin It Up and we also danced: Lucky Lips, We Can’t Wait, Stand By Me, Made In Mexico, Skinny Genes, Dancing Queen and Ah Si.

28/10/24 This week I taught this class the same dance I had taught to the Improvers class in the hour before – the first time I’ve tried this. As expected, the beginner class found it a little tougher to pick up and although one or two still need to sort a couple of bits out, I was pleased with how well it went for the first attempt. We danced it again right at the end of the class.

Tippin It Up step sheet

We also danced: Glass Of Wine, Go Cat Go, Tippin It Up, Rocket To The Sun, A Bar Song, Cowboy Charleston (sorry I messed up a bit with this one!), and Ain’t No Mountain.

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Today I took a class in Mapperley, Nottingham while the regular instructor was away on holiday.

I recapped a recently taught dance MISS THANG (Darren Bailey) and went over an oldie THE WAY (Gerard Murphy) . A big thank you to all who came out dancing on a very warm day.

We also danced:  Love Me A Little Bit Longer, Backroad Nation, Neon Hearts, To Be Blunt, Tippin It Up, In Walked You, Good Rockin’ Daddy, Memory Lane, 5 Leaf Clover, Shouting To The Monsters, Playboys, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Thunder In My Heart, Pot of Gold, Sundown Waltz, Long Live Country Music, Soul Shake and Remember These Words.

The class is open as normal tonight  although as I don’t feel fully fit yet, I may be taking things a little easier!

AGE UK CLASSES IN MAY AND JUNE 2024

Sorry there will be no classes on the following Mondays…

MAY 6th, 13th and 27th  

JUNE 3rd and 10th

On Monday 20th May, there will be an intermediate class as normal from 12.00 to 1.00pm but no class for the beginners.

Instead, I will be doing a class for the beginners on FRIDAY 17th and 24th May starting at 11.40pm.

All classes will be back to normal from Monday 17th June.

I’ll be handing out some slips at the remaining classes in April that you can take home to show when the classes will be on in May and June.