Thinking of Our Line Dancing Days

Apparently, the line dance to Beyoncé's Texas Hold'Em is sweeping the nation – the line dancing nation anyway. As I discovered, you can find all sorts of hits on YT. Here is one of the many renditions.

Here is quite an adaptation — a tap dance in the desert.

Those ↑ versions seem to be a little more intricate that what you'd get in a Tuesday night club session that would go a little more like ↓ this, just slightly toned down, I think. It is not necessary to watch it all, as they just keep repeating the steps in all 4 directions, for that is how many line dances tend to work.

There was a time when we would have been right into it. Sue wondered if we could do it again, but I know my dang foot couldn't manage it. When C19 was on, I thought to make a video of us doing the sedate Waltz Across Texas, just for fun, but I couldn't even do that properly.

Once upon a time, we went to a line dance evening for several years. They taught steps there, but we could also learn difficult routines on our own. For example: I give you ↓ Heave Away. Our teacher would have never tried to teach it to the whole gathering, but when we first joined, Sue and I would stay and watch the more expert dancers do their thing at the end of the full sessions. Once we saw them do Heave Away, we went home and learned it on our own. After that, we would dance with the experts in the afterglow.

It was so much fun and good exercise too. I am glad that we did it.

For those who weren't around a few years ago, even though we didn't do Waltz Across Texas, we did do our version of the Monty Python Silly Walk to brighten a forlorn COVID day. It was silly, indeed.