Country Swing Dance

Country Swing Dance Lessons

Our Country Swing Dance Lessons or 4-Count Swing is a simple style of swing consisting of rocking forward and back. This style of swing is very popular and versatile due to the steady four counts and can be danced to a plethora of different types of current music. One very popular genre of music for this dance style is Country music (hence the name Country Swing).


Many Country Swing dancers don’t actually do the footwork because they love the arm-work involved with swinging, wrapping, throwing, tossing, lifting and dropping their partners. At the Rockin’ Horse Dance Barn, our Country Swing Dance Lessons teach steady footwork with many turns but none of them involve the woman flying off in the air. However, we do offer private lessons for that if it sounds like fun.

History

Country swing was developed in the dance halls, barns, ranches and house parties of small towns throughout the lower Great Plains and the south in the late 1920s and early 30s

Schedule

FOR COUNTRY SWING DANCE CLASSES


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Syllabus

Syllabus (1a)

Basic


Rotating Basic Clockwise


Lead’s Underarm Turn


Follow’s Left Turn


Lead’s Left Pass


Follow’s Left Turn


Overhead Slide


Follow’s Left Turn (fix hand)


Surprise


Wrap into Cuddle


Wheel Clockwise


Follow’s Right Turn (tuck)


Hammerlock


Wheel


Follow’s Double Turn Left


Lead’s Walkthrough w/Hand Change


Lead’s 540

Syllabus (1b)

Basic


Rotating Basic Counter-Clockwise


Basic in Outside Partner – Left & Right Sides


Follow’s Right Turn


Lead’s Right Turn


Combs


Straightjacket


Wheel Clockwise


Duck Out


Follow’s Double Turn Right


She/He w/Left Hand


Lead’s Walkthrough w/Hand Change


Tunnel


Follow’s Left Turn


Lead’s Corkscrew


Follow’s Left Turn

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