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Tuesday Morning 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 9:30-10:45 am. We start with very easy dances for the first 30 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 and easy intermediate level. 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.

Easy Beginner

A Tiny Waltz - W. Yu Ah Si! - Rita Masur Baby Boots AB- Holley Broken Stones-Musk Crash and Burn- Vestergard DHSS - Teather Flex - Barrett Fun to Drink With- Shipley Funky Shuffle- Szymanski Glass of Wine -Jakobsen Gloria AB- Multari Heave Away- Fowler Homecoming-Hamilton It's a Heartache -Cairns K is for Kicks - Gonzalez Let's Have Some Fun - Szymanski Little Wagon Wheel- Teather Looking at You - Rodgers Lucky Lips - Lafferty Mamma Maria - Trace Old Records -Cook Rocket to the Sun- Glover Stand By Me - Ray & Roy That Honky Tonk Highway-Shipley We Never Knew Love-Lee & Wellerman -Schloboch When You Smile - Jose Miguel Who Needs to Know -Talbot

Beginner/High Beginner

Alabama Chasin'-Rushton Black Horse & -Tripp Cross My Heart - Winson Cruisin- Hale Dance Around the Fire-Armstrong A Little Dancing in the Country-Pedersen Every Move -Jose Miguel Feeling Alive- Wohry Happy Does - Hana Ries Heaven's Jukebox - Jose Miguel Hello Dolly - Kurtela Hold Me Now-Dahlgren Hot Kisses -Manning I Got It -KimSam Keep it Simple -Gallagher Key Lime -Pournelle Made of Gold- Barnfield Never Drinking Again - Hamilton No Me Llevas- Sarlemijn Old School Vibe - Wright One More Silver Dollar - Valcalda The Smilin' Dance -Blankenship Space in my Heart -Gary & Maggie Sweet Caroline - Bailey Telling on my Heart EZ- Haslund Tennessee Waltz Surprise -Crumbley Under the Sun- Chang Until the Dawn -Lafferty We're Good to Go - Fowler Texas Time -Pedersen

Improver/Intermediate

A Wee Bit Lost - Gallagher Around the Fire-Sala Blessed -Ries Bringing It Back -Whitehouse Can't Pass the Bar - Bailey Chicken Fried - Wilson Crispy Chicken-Zahorsky Drinkaby - McEnaney Drinking Problem - Bailey Drive You Out of my Mind- Schneider Dust to Dust- Darren Get Rollin'-Murray Ghosted - Poulsen Give Me Your Tempo-Gardiner Homegrown - McEnaney Jesse James - McEnaney Jester & the Joker-Gallagher Johnnie Walker Blues- Glover Magic Nights - Poulsen Nothing But You - Bailey Oh My Johhny-O'Reilly People Are Crazy- Teather Ready for It-VanSkoyk Ready or Not -Glass Scootin' Bootin' -Paulino Senorita La-La-La-Wetzel Storm & Stone-M. Glover Straight Line-Gallagher Til You Can't- O'Reilly Tucson Too Late - Glover Un Poquito-Rachel Up the Creek - Fowler Wagon Wheel Rock-Anderson Washed Up in Austin-Glover 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.