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Tuesday AM Line Dance

Tuesday is beginner day at the Spokane Valley Senior Center. The 9:30 am Slow & Easy class is an absolute beginner class, geared to new dancers and senior dancers who want a slower pace. The 10 am Beginner class is a little more challenging and faster paced.

The beginner classes meet on Tuesday mornings from 9:30-11 am. We start with very easy dances for the first 30-40 minutes and then progress to a little more challenge, but still beginner dances.

Friday Afternoon Line Dance

The Line Dance Plus class at the Senior Center is for dancers with experience. Dances are mainly at the improver level with some high beginner and easy intermediate dances in the mix. We do a variety of new dances and old favorites.

The Line Dance Plus class meets on Friday afternoon from 2-3:30 pm. Some dance experience is beneficial as this class is faster paced with more challenging dances than the Tuesday beginner classes.

Trutina Easy Beginner

A Hero AB - Sleeth Ah Si! - Masur Baby Boots AB- Holley Boot Scootin' In the Round -Coursen Broken Stones-Musk Cold Heart- Yusran Crash and Burn-Vestergaard Cucaracha - Dahl DHSS-Teather Funky Shuffle -Jo T Szy Gloria AB- Multari Heave Away- Fowler Keep Up w a Cowgirl-Marschall Looking at You Waltz-Rodgers Lucky Lips-Lafferty Mamma Maria-Trace Rhythm & Rain-Kim Ray Rocket to the Sun-Glover That Honky Tonk Highway-Shipley Who Needs to Know -Talbot

Easy & Beginner

A Hero AB - Sleeth Baby Boots AB- Holley Boot Scootin' In the Round -Coursen Broken Stones-Musk DHSS - Teather Funky Shuffle - Jo T Szymanski That Honky Tonk Highway-Shipley Who Needs to Know -Talbot Beginner: Amarillo by Morning-Weisburd Champagne Promise - Argyle Codigo - Stott Dance Around the Fire-Armstrong Heaven's Jukebox-Jose Miguel It Feels Good Good Good - Smith Key Lime -Pournelle One More Silver Dollar- Valcalda Peaches & Cream-Peter & Tennessee Waltz Surprise -Crumbley

Line Dance Plus

Amarillo By Morning - Ira Around the Fire-Sala Bicycle Waltz-Heath Cold Heart-Maddison Chicken Fried - Wilson Crispy Chicken-Zahorsky Dance Without a Partner-Niels Drive You Out of my Mind- Schneider Dust to Dust- Darren Ghosted - Poulsen Give Me Your Tempo-Gar Heaven's Jukebox-Jose M Homegrown - McEnaney Knockin' Boots -Flowers Scootin' Bootin' -Paulino Storm & Stone-M. Glover Tucson Too Late - Glover Un Poquito-Rachel Up the Creek - Fowler Wonderland Waltz-Fowler

Line Dance Terminology

Click to link to a glossary of line dance terminology.

Line Dance Stepsheets and Demos

Click to link to Copperknob.uk, a worldwide database of line dance stepsheets and demos of dances.

Basic Steps youtube Video

Click to link to an hour long video demonstrating the basic line dance steps. You may pause and practice as you watch.

Spokane Valley Line Dance provides free classes at the Spokane Valley Senior Center on Tuesday mornings and Friday afternoons. The goal of these classes is to encourage people to remain fit and active as we age. With this in mind, we do a mix of new dances and old favorites.

The benefits of line dance include:

Boosts memory
Improves balance and flexibility
Reduces Stress
Improves mood
Strengthens your heart
Increases energy and metabolism
Fun social activity

If you are mobile, can clap in time to music and like to have fun, you will love line dancing.
(We all make mistakes so you need to be able to laugh at yourself.) Join us and give it a try!

Judy Rausch

Beginner/Improver/Intermediate Line Dance Instructor

I am a retired RN/Health Care Educator having taught in a variety of nursing & allied health settings including a magnet high school. My spouse and I moved to Spokane Valley from Texas in June of 2020 to be closer to family. I began teaching at the Spokane Valley Senior Center in October 2021 when it opened up after Covid. I took my first line dance class in 2010 and was hooked. A group of ladies in my Sunday School class talked me into starting an easy class in the church gym while I was still a beginner myself. I have been teaching line dance ever since. I taught line dance as a volunteer for 10 years at churches and recreation centers in Arlington, Texas. I have taught all levels of line dance from basic beginner to advanced. For two years, I served on the Board of the North Texas Line Dance Association which sponsors the North Texas Line Dance Classic, a 2 day dance event in Farmers Branch, Texas. I have sponsored groups to many line dance events including H.O.T., Texas Line Dance Jamboree, Line Up & Dance, the Vegas Dance Explosion, and a Caribbean Cruise. I have also hosted workshops and taught/led dances at many line dance events, participated in several flash mobs and performed at nursing homes. I look forward to many more years of fun line dancing here in the Spokane area.