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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