Country line dancing is a beloved form of dance because you learn how to do it with lots of friends.
These choreographed routines involve a group of people dancing in line to a repeated sequence of steps in unison.
These dances can be done with or without a partner and are popular throughout the U.S. and country nightclubs.
You’ll also find line dancing incorporated into fitness routines and done at weddings, according to Bella Ballroom.
Line dancing is believed to have existed in different forms for thousands of years in different parts of the world.
“The first known line dance instructions were written in a book of dance sheets in 1650 for English Country Dancing. Country line dancing appears to have originated in Europe and arrived to the United States with the settlers who immigrated to America,” their website says.
“Some theorists agree that the Country Line dancing that we know today evolved from the English Country Dances, or Contra dances, that were danced in the New England states of the U.S. in the early 1800s. These Contra dances came to America by the settlers who brought their dance traditions with them.”
Nowadays there are choreographed country line dances that have specific names like the “Tush Push,” “Cowboy Cha Cha,” “Swamp Thing,” “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” and “Watermelon Crawl.”
There are also non-country line dances like the “Macarena,” “Cupid Shuffle,” and “Chicken Dance.” Some even create and trademark their own country line dances like David Villellas’s “Holy Moly.”
According to Copper Knob, he’s choreographed or co-choreographed about 25 dances.
His performance of the “Holy Moly” in Sauzé-Vassussais, France was posted on YouTube and viewed more than 500,000 times.
The performance was danced to the song “Footloose” which was originally written and performed by Kenny Loggins.
The song was released in 1984 as one of the first two singles from the film of the same name, according to Wikipedia.
But the version Villellas choreographed his dance to was the one by Blake Shelton.
The performance began with all of Villellas’s crew standing in their lines, all dressed in denim jeans, flannel shirts or t-shirts, and white cowboy hats.
They started their routine clapping before they busted out their fancy footwork that began with a stomp of the foot then a spin.
These country guys and gals slid to the right and twisted their feet back and forth.
They were hopping around in a circle and did some stomping around, all in unison.
They spun around on one foot, then the other, and tipped their cowboy hats to the audience.
They made their moves together as if they were a single unit.
The dancers shuffled around in line to the left and right all in perfect time.
They then slowed their moves down a bit as they moved forward and back. But then their speed picked back up again to create some intermittent stomps and spins.
And it just looks like great fun, though everyone was concentrated on their intricate steps.
You can’t help but get excited and pumped up when you hear this song. Especially when you’re watching so many people hop around having fun. These people were really cutting loose and ended their song with one final stomp and high fives for a job well done.
Check out the whole dance in the video below.
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