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New Dances Recently Added |
Toon-50 Dances :
Gotta Hitch (Francien Sittrop) - Kreesha Turner - 64/4 Intermediate
Fire (Shaz Walton) - Petey Pablo - 64/2 Advanced
Girl (Craig Bennett) - Taio - 32/4 Intermediate
Take A Bow (Niels Poulsen) - Rihanna - 32/4 Intermediate/Advanced
That's The Day (Dee Musk) - Emerson Drive - 32/2 Intermediate
Gimme A Chance (Maggie Gallagher) - Mark Medlock - 96/2 Intermediate
Blood Money (Rob Fowler) - Aerosmith - 48/4 Intermediate
Lady (Rob Fowler) - Kenny Rogers - 32/Phrased Intermediate
Join us in Newcastle next June - A fun 'Likely Lads' weekend with Paul McAdam, Dee & Dave
....You're only 50 once but the dancing goes on !! :-)
Alamo Torquay Weekend with Andrew, Pat, Dee & Dave :
Don't Worry (Andrew, Simon & Sheila) - Kim Appleby - 32/4 Intermediate
Drives Me Crazy (Andrew, Simon & Sheila) - Dolly Parton - 64/2 Easy Intermediate
Appetite For Love (Pat & Lizzie Stott) - Natalia - 64/4 Intermediate/Advanced
Light Of My Life (Pat Stott) - The Boots Band - 64/4 Intermediate
uess It's Over (Dee Musk) - Johnny Mathis - 32/4 IntermediateThat's The Day (Dee Musk) - Emerson Drive - 32/2 Intermediate
Gimme A Chance (Maggie Gallagher) - Mark Medlock - 96/2 Intermediate
- Taught by DaveMore Than I Can Say (Alan Birchall) - Leo Sayer - 32/4 Improver
- Taught by PatQuick evening social teaches :
Higher & Higher (Max Perry) - Michael McDonald - 32/4 Improver - Taught by Dave
Duck Soup (Frank Trace) - Shelby Lynne - 32/4 Beginner - Taught by Dave
'Out Of Schedule' teaches (For the dance-a-holics) :
Handsfree (Andrew, Simon & Sheila) - Sonny J - 64/2 Advanced
The Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume (Simon Ward) - David Cook - 72/2 Higher Intermediate - Taught by Dave
Fire (Shaz Walton) - Petey Pablo - 64/2 Advanced - Taught by Dave
Join us next year 10th-12th July 2009
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Sunday-Out Intermediate/Advanced Workshop
A fun workshop day & party evening with DJ Big Dave & Friends
Sunday 13th July 2008
with special guest star Rachael McEnaney with a hot new dance from M.T.Groove too
£8 (Juniors £4 – Non-Dancers Free) Belvedere Park Club, Burton-On-Trent – Noon to 5.30pm – Non-Stop Dancing
Pay-On-The-Door
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Let's Rocket (Francien Sittrop) - Darin Zanyar - 32/4 Intermediate
See this one at Bossyboots, Kiddeminster on Sunday 6th July
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My weekly 'Dances Taught' Update .........
First off a huge thanks to everyone who came to my birthday bash weekend - To everyone that helped throughout the weekend - To the choreographers who came to teach & party - And to all the dancers - I had the time of my life with a room full of dancing friends - A fun weekend I will remember forever - The best ever for me by far ----- Thanks too to all those who have sent best wishes via card, email & text for my 50th - Thank you all very much - You are all awesome & I'm proud to have you as friends ......................
Beginner dance this week was Steve Lescarbeau's Wagon Wheel - Another really cool beginner dance out of JG2 which caught my eye there - Really catchy country track & a cool dance - We had fun mastering the 3/4 unwind but that's what it's all about - They finally got it & really enjoyed it - Others going well are Duck Soup, Higher & Higher & My Veronica ........ Going to get back to some of the all-time classics soon, but still keen to try out Dan Albro's Cowboy Cowboy & Christopher Petre's Wanna Have Fun too. On Tuesday we've had a request to catch up with a couple of dances going well on the social scene in the area that we've not done - Last week it was Peter & Alison's El Mundo Bailando - And this week T&V's The Rain Came Down - Both really well received ................ All our Mainline dances from the Newcastle weekend are on the list - Already done Dee's lovely country nightclub That's The Day, Robbie's Cheeky Cha & Francien's Gotta Hitch - And planning to do Robbie's Keep It Up, Craig's Girl - And going to do Maggie's new waltz Gimme A Chance first off next week - You've read about these already from Ryan's report ................... Other dances going really well on Tuesday include Sweet Perfume, Feed The Fetish, Gotta Hitch, Cheeky Cha, Irish Spirit, Like A Hero, Fire On Ice, When I Cry, Diamonds & Freedom Feels Like Lonely ............................. I want to thank MaggieG for writing the waltz specially for the weekend for me for the Mainliners. On Wednesday - Hard work !! because we had our Guyton Nite last Wednesday & some other great Newline teaches at Newcastle too - So I had to learn some serious stuff before class - I was not foot perfect but I did manage to help everyone recap Guyton's lovely waltz Waiting, Niels's cool nightclub Take A Bow & Shaz's funky Fire - All big hit Newline teaches - Still to come from the weekend are Rob's Blood Money & Lady - And Guyton's hat dance Here We Go !! :-) ............. Although most had done the 3 new ones we did spend a long while cracking them, then just time for a quick recap of the latest Scott ones Keep It Real & Too Deep ... And Sweet Perfume too ........ Only time to social dance Boo-Taay which is really popular............................. I want to thank Shaz for writing something funky specially for the weekend for me for the Newliners. Just heading off to Torquay now for a weekend with Andrew & Sheila, Pat Stott & Dee - Cya there if you are coming - Looking forward to a fun weekend ................ And I'll try to catch up with an update of my web-site too over the weekend - Sorry I've been a bit slow with that the last couple of weeks.
Next weekend come & see Rachael & M.T.Groove with hot new dances at our Sunday-Out on 13/7 - Sunday Noon-6.00pm at the Belvedere Club, Burton-On-Trent.
Just a reminder for Brits to check out joining us at the Worlds in Florida - Check it out - It's going to be awesome - The social dancing & workshops are just the best - And on Disney's doorstep too - http://www.ucwdcworlds.com/ - There is also a Linedance Cruise leaving straight after Worlds that Pauline & I are going to take - Never been on a cruise before so that's going to be a special time too :-)
Check out the latest feedback on dances taught at the following links - Thanks to everyone who is sending regular updates :
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New No.1 - Oklahoma Wind ...........................
Up Country Magazine's Country Top 10 Dances :
Oklahoma Wind (Gaye Teather) - Reba - 64/2 Intermediate
My New Life (John Offermans) - The Lennerockers - 48/4 Beginner
Baby Jane (Gaye Teather) - Paul Bailey - 32/4 Improver/Easy Intermediate
Magic Moon (Robbie M. Hickie) - Patty Loveless - 32/4 Beginner/Improver
A Cowboy & A Dancer (Peter & Alison) - Tracy Byrd - 64/2 Intermediate
Ride The River (Kath Dickens) - JJ Cale & Eric Clapton - 48/4 Intermediate
Rollin' With The Flow (John Rowell) - Mark Chesnutt - 32/4 Improver/Intermediate
Walk With Me (Rob Fowler) - Josh Turner - 48/2 Easy Intermediate
Laid Back 'n Low Key (Peter & Alison) - Alan Jackson - 32/4 Improver/Easy Intermediate
On Your Marks (Gay Teather) - Lennerockers - 64/4 Easy Intermediate
Out of the charts in recent months / Bubblin' Under :
Before The Devil (Alan Birchall) - Rodney Atkins - 32/4 Beginner/Intermediate
Eagles Rock (Geye Teather) - Eagles - 64/4 Intermediate
Foolish Heart (Robbie M. Hickie) - Vince Gill - 32/4 Improver/Easy-Intermediate
Here & Now (Peter & Alison) - Darryl Worley - 64/2 Intermediate
Holding Back The Ocean (Peter & Alison) - Rockie Lynne - 64/4 Intermediate
Kill The Spiders (Gaye Teather) - Brad Paisley - 32/2 Intermediate
NIMBY (Maggie Gallagher) - Burton Cummings - 64/4 Intermediate
Rebel Amor (Roy Verdonk & Wil Bos) - Terri Clark (Bella Perez) - 64/4 Easy Intermediate
Restless Guy (Sandra Speck) - John Fogerty - 64/4 Intermediate
Show Me Wot U Got (Neville Fitzgerald) - Jill Johnson - 48/4 Intermediate
Snap, Crackle & Pop (Peter & Alison) - Josh Turner - 64/2 Intermediate
Walk Back To Me (Peter, Alison & Dan Albro)
- Toby Keith - 64/2 IntermediateWatching You (Margaret Swift) - Rodney Atkins - 32/4 Improver/Intermediate
Top 10's from 2nd annual
Danish Newline event ----
(As voted by dancers)
All-Time :
-Scandalous
-Poetry In Motion
-Have Fun Go Mad
-Angel
-Totally Nightclub
-Burning
-With These Eyes
-Guardian Angel
-Meltdown
-Cadillac Ride
2008 :
-Miss You 2
-Footprints In The Sand
-On The Way
-Feed The Fetish
-Killa Appetite
-So Glamorous
-Gangsta's Paradise
-Candlelight
-Crazy Butterfly
-Elevator
Just updated -----
Other good sources - www.A-S-Line.Com or www.Kickit.to/ld or www.copperKnob.co.uk or www.yipee.per.sg
Girl (Craig Bennett) - Taio - 32/4 Intermediate
Fire (Shaz Walton) - Petey Pablo - 64/2 Advanced
Gimme A Chance (Maggie Gallagher) - Mark Medlock - 96/2 Intermediate
Blood Money (Rob Fowler) - Aerosmith - 48/4 Intermediate
Lady (Rob Fowler) - Kenny Rogers - 32/Phrased Intermediate
More Than I Can Say (Alan Birchall) - Leo Sayer - 32/4 Improver
Drives Me Crazy (Andrew, Simon & Sheila) - Dolly Parton - 64/2 Easy Intermediate
Handsfree (Andrew, Simon & Sheila) - Sonny J - 64/2 Advanced
Light Of My Life (Pat Stott) - The Boots Band - 64/4 Intermediate
Disco Defenders (Peter & Alison) - Alcazar - 64/2 Intermediate
Mystery Cha (Paul McAdam) - Charles & Eddie - 32/2 Intermediate
Mystery Cha (Paul McAdam) - Charles & Eddie - 32/2 Intermediate
Galway Girls (Chris Hodgson) - Sharon Shannon & Steve Earle - 31/2 Improver/Intermediate
Backwoods Girl (Chris Hodgson) - Dolly Parton - 36/4 Beginner/Improver
Downpour (Paul McAdam) - Brandi Carlile - 48/2 Beginner/Intermediate
Don't Go (Paul McAdam) - The Dualers - 64/2 Beginner/Intermediate
A Thousand Kisses (Paul McAdam) - Luther Vandross - 64/1 Intermediate
Threw It Away (Neville & Julie) - Blu Cantrell - 32/4 Intermediate
Invitation To Dance (Peter & Alison) - Chris De Burgh - 48/4 Intermediate
Take A Bow (Niels Poulsen) - Rihanna - 32/4 Intermediate/Advanced
Walking Back To Happiness (Alan Haywood) - Helen Shapiro - 68/4 Improver
Greener Pastures (Theresa Needham) - EmmyLou Harris - 48/4 Intermediate
Western Womens Swing (Soren Kristensen) - Roger Brown - 32/4 Beginner/Intermediate
I Want You Back (Robin Sin) - Bananarama - 64/4 Intermediate
Whole Lotta Lovin (Andy Williams) - Shane Wyatt - 32/4 Intermediate
Soul Survivor (Audrey Watson) - Soraya - 32/4 Easy Intermediate
Tonight's Pleasure (Audrey Watson) - Soraya - 32/4 Improver/Easy Intermediate
Everytime You Stay (Ria Vos) - Ann Winsborn - 64/4 Intermediate
No Chains (Ria Vos) - Gabrielle - 32/4 Intermediate
Wanna Have Fun (Christopher Petre) - Alan Jackson - 48/4 Beginner
My Sweet Summer Love (Rep Ghazali) - Mark Medlock - 64/2 Intermediate
Don't Care (Hazel Morris) - Backstreet Boys - 32/4 Improver - June BWDA
Love Will Survive (Audrey Watson) - Charlotte Perrelli - 32/4 Beginner/Improver - June BWDA .... Floor split for Like A Hero
Ride Cowboy .... Ride (Peter Thijssen) - Vince Gill - 64/4 Intermediate - July Up Country
Just Can't Stop (Neville & Julie) - Ne-Yo - 64/2 Intermediate
Wait (Neville & Julie) - Stacie Orrico - 48/4 Intermediate
Too Deep (Scott Blevins) - Duran Duran - 32/4 Intermediate
Keep It Real (Scott Blevins) - Mya - Phrased/4 Intermediate/Advanced
Count to 3 (Robbie M. Hickie) - Melinda Schneider - 48/4 Intermediate
Wanna Be (Robbie M. Hickie) - Jason Blaine - 32/4 Easy Intermediate
Never Change (Robbie M. Hickie) - Chris Gray - 64/4 Easy Intermediate
Cheeky Cha (Robbie M. Hickie & Kate Sala) - DJ Bobo - 32/4 Easy Intermediate
Speed Up (Kate Sala & Daan Geelen) - Funkerman - 64/4 Advanced
Why I Love Home (Alan Haywood) - Journey South - 48/4 Intermediate
Gomenasai (Mark & Jan Caley) - BWO - 64/2 Easy Intermediate
Big Bad Dog (Jamie Marshall) - Shane Wyatt - 40/2 Improver/Intermediate
Modern World (Roy Verdonk & Wil Bos) - Anouk - 64/4 Intermediate
February Waltz (Michael Lynn) - Josh Groban - 60/2 Intermediate
Just Surrender (Roy Thompson) - Sanna Nielsen - 32/4 Intermediate
Coupe De Ville (Gaye Teather & Alan Haywood) - Lennerockers - 72/4 Intermediate
Tumba La Casa (Ria Vos) - Thalia - 32/4 Beginner/Intermediate
Lighthouse Charlston (Mavis Broom) - Erica Eigen - 32/4 Beginner
Electric Rock (Phil Johnson) - ELO - 64/2 Intermediate
Delta Dawn (Glynn Holt & Jackie Brennan) - Tanya Tucker - 32/4 Improver
Life Is A (Stephen Gell) - Ace Of Base - 32/4 Improver
My List (Lynn Gannon) - Toby Keith - 48/4 Easy Intermediate
Perfect Secret (Nikki James) - Kalomoira - 32/4 Intermediate
Chez Louis (Terry Dunbar) - Pussycat - 32/4 Intermediate
Keep Searchin' (Annette Maidment) - Del Shannon - 64/2 Improver
Giddy Up (Lynn Gannon & Carol Robinson) - Doug Supernaw - 32/2 Beginner
Give Thanks (Tomas C. Tam) - Ingrid DuMosch - 32/4 Beginner
Our Bartender (Soren Kristensen) - T-pain - 64/4 Intermediate
Red Umbrella (Robyn Groot&Co) - Faith Hill - 48/4 Intermediate
Settle Down (Robyn Groot&Co) - The McCymonts - 40/4 Intermediate
My Lucky Night (Robyn Groot&Co) - George Strait - 48/4 Easy Intermediate
High Demand (Robyn Groot&Co) - Luke Bryan - 64/2 Easy Intermediate
Soon
:Let's Rocket (Francien Sittrop) - Darin Zanyar - 32/4 Intermediate
Waiting for Scripts :
She's So California (Ron Tate) - Gary Allan - 64/4 Intermediate - July Up Country
If anyone can speed things up by sending me these that would be much appreciated
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Shaz & Craig are writing together to What Hurts The Most (Rascal Flatts)
Shaz is also writing one to Jordin Spark's 'This Is My Now'
M.T.Groove are working on one to No One by Alicia Keys & another to Beautiful Nightmare Remix featuring Balliztic
Kate Sala has one out soon called Hands Free by Sonny J
T&V are working on one to Madonna's Give It To Me
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The Hat Dance - Here We Go - Awesome funky fun ......................................
Event Joining Information :
Alamo : 15th - 17th August
2008
Blackpool
Places available & Day-Passes
Andrew & Sheila
with guest choreographer Craig BennettA fun Mainline weekend with DJ Andrew
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August 15th - 17th 2008
£115 (2 nights Dinner, Bed & Breakfast) - Event hosts Andrew & Sheila - With guest choreographer Craig Bennett - Friday evening thru to 3.00pm Sunday Booking Form
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Event Joining Information :
MaggieG Wales : 19th - 21st September 2008
Port Talbot, Wales
SOLD OUT - Thanks for your support
MaggieG
with guest choreographer Kate SalaA fun Mainline weekend with DJ Big Dave
Leeds Newline : 26th - 28 September 2008
Leeds
SOLD OUT - Thanks for your support
Scott, Guyton, Paul, Shaz, Niels & M.T.Groove
A Newline weekend with DJ's Big Dave & Russ
*****Important - We have all the hotel for Friday/Saturday but only 50% of it for Sunday evening so if you want to stay the Sunday evening please contact me asap - You can't just leave it until nearer the time - We have a cool social on the Sunday evening ----------- Local dancers welcome to join us on the Sunday evening too, but sorry no day-passes available for the event itself
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JG2 LINE DANCE MARATHON
Thursday
Jumping ahead to Thursday evening the dances that were being danced
lots in the various rooms from the Thursday teaches - And so for me the
hit teaches of the day were ....
-Daniel's Chilli Hot taught by Dee
-Kate's Mercy taught by Pepper
As well as these, others from the day already quite popular & even more
so because of the teaches were ....
-Paul's Bring It taught by Nigel
-Maggie's Irish Spirit taught by John Robinson
-Paul's Phenomenon taught by Guyton
-Any's Boo-Taaay taught by Nigel
-So Glamorous taught by Christopher Petre
-Debbie's Amore De Hielo taught by Gerard Murphy
 Nigel chilling after a great teach of Bring It !! :-)
The one that particularly caught my eye & the biggest floor filler for
sure on the evening was Simon's cool waltz
The Smell
Of Your Sweet Perfume
taught by Lou Ann - Most definitely 'the dance of the moment' I'd say here
in the States - The floor was full in the big room - Lou Ann also taught
Maggie's lovely nightclub Could It Be You to a good crowd - I did two
Maggie dances too in my workshop, Need No Other & Never A Thought - Cool
traditional country dances - I really enjoyed my first ever JG2 teach &
thanks so much to those that came to it !! :-)
Lou Ann with Could It Be You & John with Irish Spirit
One of the biggest classes was a packed room with Nigel for Shaz's
awesome dance
Pick Up My
Stroll,
which loads of folk have a buzz about & one of my own favourites Niel's
Miss
You 2
was a hit
teach by Neville to close the day.
Many of you will have heard of all these dances - But two new ones for
me that caught my eye were a cool traditional 64/2
Intermediate country two-step taught by KathyH called
Love's
Moved
by Wes Smith - Really nice dance ............ And for me the 'Dance Of The
Day' - Because it's new & cool is Andrew Long's 32/4 Intermediate dance All
This Talk
taught by Maurice, one which CarolC has already recommended on the lists
a few weeks back & which I really did enjoy dancing big time.
Dance of the Day : All This Talk (Andrew Long)
Friday
Just started Saturday - What a great
event this is ............ Just took Scott's class for his new
Phrased/Advanced 8&1 cha cha Keep It
Real - This really is another Scott
classic for all the fans of the likes of Break Free Cha - A packed room
struggled but just about got it by the time-up 50 mins - Scott wins quote
of the day already ........ "Once you get it it's no big deal" !!!!! :-) -
Scott's dance Too Deep
yesterday was a big hit too - That's a more modest 32/4 Scott classic -
More Feed The Fetish stuff (Which by the way probably already wins the
award for the most played/requested dance of the weekend !!
:-) ..............
Biggest stress of my life was demoing our
new dance Searchin' - I was so nervous but everyone was really nice &
thanks to Dee for going out there & doing it with me - She helped the
crowd see some of Shaz's sexy moves !!! :-) ............
It was cool to see Guyton's new mega
hip-hop one which he demo'd with Will Craig - Think ultimate Guyton - And
if you like that you'll love this one when you see it .......... It's got
a cap move in it - And everyone who takes the class is getting a free
Guyton cap for that bit -
Awesome .................................... Guyton's new waltz
Waiting is mega cool & was a big hit
yesterday - It's 'Angel' cool.
Dee's doing a great job too & back to
Friday one of the hits of the day for sure was her dance
Fade-Away
- 140 people packed out the workshop & it seemed like most of them were
back for a quick recap when we did it at around midnight during the social
dancing - I was really pleased for her - Loads keeping up with
Daniel's Chilli Hot which she taught Thursday too ................ It's so
difficult to write a good report without being a long one !!!! because
there so many cool new dances by the friendliest bunch of choreographers
you could wish to meet - But I don't have time to write a long one just
now !! - The atmosphere was just great last night as the
choreographers all milled around & every now & then we did a quick recap -
I'm going to write later with some news of some great new dances that went
really well - Beginner thru Advanced & Country thru Pop - A great mix with
truly some hot prospects for everyone ................................
......................Got to go DJ but
I'll be back with the cool new dances in a few hours !!!! :-) ..........
I'll give you a clip from my playlist too - But it reflects Carol's weekly
survey results so well - I always use that to make sure I'm ready to DJ in
the States & it never lets me down.
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Ok I'm back for a while !! ........ I'm working here so I can't get
to see everything - So if I miss any good stuff anytime sorry in advance
- Can't catch all the workshops & I was DJing in the 2nd ballroom all
evening, so again I can only rave about the ones folk asked me for &
those where the choreographer joined us during the evening to dance them
- We had a fun night & folk were milling round all evening until the
early hours with Louie/DJ Jam in the main ballroom, myself/Tim in
another & Debi/Gale in another - Huge crowd - Lovely evening
..........................
Cato Larsen is here & doing great - His dances are going well - Of
course we danced Burning, but his fun dance
Chicken
Rodeo
was just pure fun & much requested - Also
Tired Of
Being Sorry
(Neat Cha Cha) &
Am I
(A lovely
easy smooth rumba) - Loads on the floor for all of these.
It was great to meet Christopher Petre for the first time - A fun gang & we particularly enjoyed his beaty & different dance Ramalama - Check it out !!! :-) ...... His cool dance to AJ's Good Times called Wanna Have Fun - What an awesome track too - One of the many cheap country albums I got from my Wal-mart visit !! :-)
Another hit which a crowd got to recap was Pam Leader's
Lie In
The Sun
- A nice easy cool one I've got down for my Improver/plus crowd
.......... I also enjoyed meeting Frank Trace & taking his class - His
dance
Duck Soup
particularly caught my eye for my Improvers - A nice fun/feel-good East
Coast - Likewise I met Steve Lescarbeau for the first time & took his
class - And on the evening lots enjoyed his recap of a neat
country triple two step (A cross between a Two-step & a cha-cha for me)
called
Wagon Wheel.
Gerard had a packed house for a cool new one called
Take Me
Away
- Likewise KathyH for an equally cool one called
Forgive
Me
- Check
these cool intermediate ones out in particular ......... We also had a
fun dance of Supermodelz from Gerard & Kathy too - You had to be there
!!!!!!!! :-) ..............Max's Higher & Higher is a great one for the
beginners - John Robinson's high impact version was cool !! :-) - His
dances
Smokin'
Cha & Good To Be Back were
popular too. Nancy's easy dance to 4 Minutes went well & we had a split
floor as Nigel recapped Shaz's Pick Up My Stroll & Nancy
'Just Mad'
& then
danced both together.
Michael Barr's
Make A
Memory
was much requested & loads danced that - Michael danced the night away &
it was cool to do Doors Of Life with him too ............. The ever
popular John Robinson is the life of the party here as ever too -
Looking forward to working with John at MaggieG's Southort next March,
we'll have fun there too - Lots of cool dances from everyone - Sorry
I've not mentioned everyone - But from me special thanks for coming into
my room & helping out the dancers remember them all. It was great to
meet Will Craig whose dances are going well too & will be coming over to
Newline 2009 !! :-) ............. It's been great to meet up with our
good friends Zac & Maurice who are also teaching some great new stuff.
Then there was Dee's
Fade-Away
(A
favourite of mine for ages), Scott's
Too Deep
& Guyton's
Waiting
- Already mentioned these & learning them already !! :-)
.................. Neville/Julie released their new one
Just
Can't Stop
which had a full workshop, but I've not seen that one myself yet - He
also did
Gangsta
Paradise
too ............. It's Murda was a hit social dance & Elevator which
he's teaching today is already very popular too.
I'll get the sheets on my site asap Tuesday/Wednesday but email me if
you need anything & I'll help if I can before that.
Did I mention everyone !!?? - I didn't - But well done to everyone
teaching here & keeping more than maybe 600 dancers happy - Like I say I
didn't see everything !!!! :-)
Wait until you see Guyton's new one !!! ........... I'll take a photo
tonight & put it on the web - The 'Hat Dance' !!!! :-) ....... We'll be
doing this one at our Guyton Nite back in Hinckley in just a few weeks
time.
Dance of the Day : Fade-Away (Dee Musk) .................. And a funky Too Deep (Scott Blevins)
Saturday/Sunday
Mentioned a cool funky dance last time by Will Craig called
What You
Got
- Neat dance & good to see it finish 3rd in the Pro-Choreography
competition on Sunday - A much danced nightclub from Junior & Craig
Faith In
Love
took 2nd place, a dance we have been enjoying in the UK since Craig taught
it a the Maggie G Southport weekend - 1st place went to a dance that was a
hit release back at the Linedancer Awards in February - Dee 's
Footprints
In The Sand
- Well done
to Dee.
Saturday was a sort of stress for me in particular because I had to demo
Searchin'
at 9am & then wait all day to teach it at 5pm - I was thrilled to get
close to 100 people & I just managed to get through it in the 50 minutes -
Timing is real strict !!! ...... I just want to thank Shaz very much for
taking the time out to write it with me & for giving me a fighting chance
of having something half decent to teach - And thank all those who came to
the class - It was a great experience - Not planning to be a career
choreographer mind you - Once a year will do & I'll stick to DJing !!! :-)
On Saturday the highlights for me were the two 'mega teaches' dare I
say - First Scott with
Keep It Real
- Cool cha cha - Challenging phrasing but not too hard - And then Guyton
with a funky hip-hop
Here We Go
- Like Scott's not too hard if you the sensible alternative to the 'down
on the floor' moves !! :-) - But you do need a hat, which it was cool
Guyton gave out to everyone who came to the class.
Asked around a lot on Sunday morning about the hit teaches from
Saturday - Many mentioned Zac's new waltz
In My Arms,
which is a Newline style dance & Dee's lovely country nightclub
That's The
Day
went really well, as did Maurice's
Divas
Niteclub
which is another favourite of mine ......... Actually there were loads of
cool new waltz's & nightclubs on the Saturday. Some really neat
intermediate/mainstream dances which many complemented included Junior's
You
Drive Me Crazy
(Great track from Dolly), Cato's
She Danced
(Lovely Waltz), Max's
Take It To The Heart
(Clever mix of Nightclub & Cha Cha from the master), Christopher Petre's
Late In The Evening
(Cool samba), Neville/Julie's
Elevator
(Funky) & Dan Albro's
Good Time Jackson
(Another dance to AJ's Good Times).
JP Potter taught a dance of his which I'm told by many is a bit of a
classic here in the States called Everlast (To Everlasting Love) - Not
come across this one before myself & don't recall it ever being done in
the UK, but for me high if not top of my Mainline teach list with my
Tuesday class when I get back - This is not news for many US dancers then,
but I'd really recommend it to UK instructors to check out - It's not new,
but it's a great dance .................... Another oldie that we did do
was Sycopated Love - We danced this with Dan & it reminded me just how
cool it is & that we need to do that one again real soon - Needless to say
we danced lots of oldie/classics with lots of choreographers over the
weekend - Like Blue Finger Lou with Max, Now Or Never with Kathy,
Crabbuckit, Do It & The Way with Gerard, Under Your Spell with Bracken,
Keep It Burning, Slowburn & Dangerous with John Robinson, Little Star with
Zac/Maurice, Butter Beans with Christopher, Gravity with Bryan, Doors Of
Life with Michael & Burning with Cato - A whole bunch of Scott & Guyton
classics too .......... Based on the popularity of their dances in social
dancing I think that the JG2 crowd would also love to see the likes of
Rachael, Paul, Maggie, Robbie, Kate, T&V, Shaz & Craig from across the
pond to name but a few !! :-), although they'll get the opportunity to see
them all somewhere in the States in 2008/9 I'm sure.
Dances still hot from Friday (Based on DJ requests received Saturday
evening/Sunday Morning) included Scott's Too Deep, Cato's Am I, Guyton's
Waiting, Max's Higher & Higher, Christopher's Ramalama, Michael's Make a
Memory, Frank's Duck Soup, Steve's Wagon Wheel, Pam's Lie In The Sun,
Dee's Fade-Away, Kathy's Forgive Me & Neville/Julie's Just Can't
Stop ............... And the most played dances included Feed The Fetish,
The Sweet Smell Of Your Perfume, Crazy Foot Mambo, My New Life, So
Glamorous, Phenomenon, Bring It, Boo-Taay, It's Murda, Amor De Hielo, Sea
Salt Sally, Dance Like You're The Only One - Not Like That, Charanga,
Rebel Amor, Firecracker, Cry To Me & the likes all still filling the floor
too .............. Also popular from the Thursday teaches Chilli Hot,
Irish Spirit, Mercy, Could It Be You & Pick Up My Stroll - And a few newer
ones begininning to catch on included P&A's Catch The Rain, Kim's Inside
Out, Kate's Fire On Ice, Robbie's Did You Ever & Paul's Wonderful.
Dance of the Day : Keep It Real (Scott Blevins) ............. Lots of great Beginner thru Intermediate ones too
If
you want to see Scott's new dances he is heading off to the UK this week -
You can see him at Nigel's class at Lakeside, Frimley Green, Wharf Road on
Sunday 3-11pm & after that at MaggieG's class in Coventry on the Wednesday
- I think he is at Rob Fowler's class on Monday or Tuesday too - Contact
Carol Baker about that via Rob's web-site - And if you fancy the MaggieG
one you could get the details from George Crutchlow.
If you want to see Guyton's new dances you can see them if you are
coming to our Newcastle weekend at the end of June, but just before that
Guyton will be teaching them at our 'Ultimate Guyton Nite' at Hinckley on
Wednesday June 25th - We'll also be reviewing a few classic Guyton dances
with the help of Dan, Shaz & M.T.Groove who are each picking one to recap
on the evening - We'll also dance all the latest Newline hits too !! :-)
..................... And you'll get a Guyton hat as well !!!! :-)
Danish Newliners have got the two new dances from Scott to look forward
too real soon - Also Neville/Julie's two new ones ............... So after
a little workshop here in Tucson on Friday/Saturday & some chill time, we
are looking forward to finishing our time away with that in just two weeks
time. I'm teaching Scott's Too Deep on Friday in Tucson - It's a great
track & a classic cool dance - The other one is much harder but equally
classic & cool, but I'm on vacation so M.T.Groove are working on that one
to teach at our Wednesday Newline class & I'll try to catch up with it
when I get back - Or make sure I take the class this time with Scott in
Denmark even instead of lazing behind the DJ booth !! :-)
Thanks to Jean & James for the invite to DJ - To Pepper for encouraging me
to write a dance to teach - And to Louie, Jam & Tim who I really enjoyed
working with again as we did back at Worlds - It was a great experience &
I look forward to going back next year - 28-31 May 2009 - It really is
something special & if you've not been have a think about coming along too
- Next year Dee & Shaz are there & will hopefully be coming for some chill time with
us in Tucson afterwards, so if it all works out it will be Shaz, Dee,
myself at Carolyn's Tucson workshop the week
after 5/6 June 2009 if we can sort the venue ------------- And again the week after that Danish Newline 12-14 June 2009 - This is a great event too & one to check out if
you like the the Newline scene - Contact Niels for this one.
Top Dances taught based on Carol's World Newsletter informal Survey ....
Am I - Cato
Larsen
Keep It Real
- Scott Blevins
Too Deep -
Scott Blevins
2009 ........
you can contact me, Jean
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"10 of the Best" Party Weekend
Announcing a very special party weekend 24th - 26th July 2009 with MaggieG & friends to celebrate Maggie's 10 years on the road - It will be Special - One-Off - Different - The ultimate Maggie G Experience !! :-) .....................Only 50 places left - Don't miss out :-)
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Linedancer Magazine Latest Top 10 - June 2008
Crazy Foot Mambo (Paul McAdam) - Dr. Victor - 32/2 Improver
- 'Had to be' - Well done to Paul for an awesome fun/feel-good dance
Irish Spirit (Maggie Gallagher) - David King - 32/4 Intermediate - Another 'Had to Be' - Great to see Maggie with a new Irish hit - Been a while - Check out Maggie's latest Stronger
Amor De Hielo (Debbie Ellis) - David Civera - 64/4 Intermediate - Great beaty intermediate dance - A floor-filler - Just bad luck it's up against the two exceptional dances above
Electric Dreams (Chris Hodgson) - Phil Oakey - 48/4 Intermediate - Awesome dance to a great track - Really pleased to see this one making it - One of my own Mainline favourite just now - A great hit teach from MIL's British Masters weekend by Chrissie - Well done Chrissie - Check out Chrissie's new waltz 'Go Now'
Inside Out (Kim Ray) - Roch Voisine - 32/4 Intermediate
- Awesome smooth Nightclub from 'Rising Star' Kim - Check this one out for sure - Although at No.5 lots of folk clearly already have !! :-)
Mercy (Kate Sala) - Duffy - 48/4 Intermediate
- Great dance from Kate - Took a while to make the chart this one - More great ones from Kate on the up including Devil's Beat, Cry For You & Fire On Ice
