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Christy Lane's Complete Book of Line Dancing

by Christy Lane

NEW, 208 pages

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About Christy Lane's Complete Book of Line Dancing

It’s time to hit the dance floor with the second edition of Christy Lane’s Complete Book of Line Dancing. Nationally acclaimed dance instructor Christy Lane surveyed dancers, teachers, and club disc jockeys across the nation to bring you the most popular national versions. She’s added 26 new dances to her latest book, giving you a total of 68 line and partner-pattern dances to choose from.

This how-to guide not only provides the footwork diagrams found in the first edition, but Lane has also added suggested music for each dance and written descriptions that aid in the explanation of the accompanying body movements. Sixty photographs show Lane demonstrating the unique moves and positions to a group of line dancers. Some of the dances you’ll find in this book include

• Tennessee Twister
• Watermelon Crawl
• New Electric Slide
• Wild Wild West
• Livin’ La Vida Loca
• Night Fever

The dances are presented in easy-to-difficult order, making it simple to advance your skill level. And a “For Teachers Only” chapter provides instructors with strategies they need to lead a successful class.

Whether you’re learning the Honky-Tonk Stomp to Brooks and Dunn’s popular hit “Hard Working Man” or listening to Garth Brooks while you and your partner perform the Barn Dance Mixer, this sensational resource will make mastering all the dances easy and fun.

About Christy Lane

Christy Lane is a highly acclaimed professional dance instructor, choreographer, educator, and performer. Her work has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report, Washington Post, American Fitness, USA Today, and Shape magazine. Lane has written five dance books, 28 instructional dance videos, and dozens of articles.

Labeled as one of America's most popular and respected dance instructors, Lane tours nationally, teaching at conventions and workshops. She is certified by the American Sport Education Program and the American Council on Exercise and is a member of the National Dance Association, National Wellness Association, National Speakers Association, and International Dance Exercise Association.
Lane is also an experienced private dance studio owner and artistic director for the Christy Lane Dance Company. She resides in Palm Springs, California.

Reviews

“Christy's updated text includes some of today's most current dances. The directions and illustrations aid both the veteran as well as the rhythmically challenged educator.”
Bud Turner, M.Ed.
Seattle Public Schools K-12 physical education coordinator

“Christy Lane is a dedicated professional who is a great inspiration to the beginner as well as the professional dancer. Her ability to simplify and keep in step with the new dances makes this book a must for everyone.”
Henno Chriss
Professional dancer, singer, actress

“A good resource for beginning line dance instructors with plenty of resources listed to help you tap into this popular form of recreational dance.”
Susan McGreevy-Nichols, B.S.
Former president of the National Dance Association

“Christy Lane's new line dance book is an informative resource for teachers with easy to follow instructions and illustrations. It is recommended for anyone who is a serious teacher of line dances."
Barbara L. Hernandez, Ph.D.
Executive Director
National Dance Association

About Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.

Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other animals (bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance). Gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are sports that incorporate dance, while martial arts kata are often compared to dances. Motion in ordinarily inanimate objects may also be described as dances (the leaves danced in the wind).

Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as folk dance) to virtuoso techniques such as ballet. Dance can be participatory, social or performed for an audience. It can also be ceremonial, competitive or erotic. Dance movements may be without significance in themselves, such as in ballet or European folk dance, or have a gestural vocabulary/symbolic system as in many Asian dances. Dance can embody or express ideas, emotions or tell a story.

Dancing has evolved many styles. Breakdancing and Krumping are related to the hip hop culture. African dance is interpretative. Ballet, Ballroom, Waltz, and Tango are classical styles of dance while Square and the Electric Slide are forms of step dances.

Every dance, no matter what style, has something in common. It not only involves flexibility and body movement, but also physics. If the proper physics is not taken into consideration, injuries may occur.

Choreography is the art of creating dances. The person who creates (i.e., choreographs) a dance is known as the choreographer.

Dance does not leave behind clearly identifiable physical artifacts such as stone tools, hunting implements or cave paintings. It is not possible to say when dance became part of human culture. Dance has certainly been an important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment since before the birth of the earliest human civilizations. Archeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 9,000 year old Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka paintings in India and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from c. 3300 BC.

One of the earliest structured uses of dances may have been in the performance and in the telling of myths. It was also sometimes used to show feelings for one of the opposite gender. It is also linked to the origin of "love making." Before the production of written languages, dance was one of the methods of passing these stories down from generation to generation.

Another early use of dance may have been as a precursor to ecstatic trance states in healing rituals. Dance is still used for this purpose by many cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.

Sri Lankan dances goes back to the mythological times of aboriginal yingyang twins and "yakkas" (devils). According to a Sinhalese legend, Kandyan dances originate, 250 years ago, from a magic ritual that broke the spell on a bewitched king. Many contemporary dance forms can be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, and ethnic dance.

Christy Lane's Complete Book of Line Dancing