What Is Line Dancing? What is Chair Dancing? How Does It Benefit the Elderly?

Line dancing is performed by a number of people all facing in the same direction and moving in lines. Everybody in the line does the same steps. A line dance consists of a sequence of steps repeated several times to a particular piece of music. Line dances are defined by three things: level of difficulty, walls and count.

Level of difficulty is divided into beginner (simple dance, easy to learn), intermediate (getting harder, but without many tricky steps, even though the music may be fast) or advanced (tricky steps and/or fast music).

Walls are a requirement. You always turn or do part of a turn during a line dance sequence. The number of 'walls' tells you how many sequences you do before you end up facing in the original direction. It may give you an indication of how far you turn during each sequence, but this is by no means a hard-and-fast rule. 'Walls' will always be one, two or four.

Count is the number of beats one sequence of the dance runs over. The count will usually be a multiple of eight or 16. Common counts are 16, 32, 40 and 48. Occasionally you will find a line dance with a count that's a multiple of four or two, but these are less common. Generally speaking, the higher the count the more difficult the dance is likely to be, as there will be more steps to remember.

Chair Dancing is done in a chair the entire time!!!!

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