DID YOU KNOW Line dance climbed into bed with country music when Billy Ray Cyrus wrote Achy Breaky Heart in 1992. A clever marketing trick, Melanie Greenwood's dance was written to promote the song. Five years later the Achy Breaky Heart has snowballed into the biggest dance craze ever, line dancing choreographed to country music. Not the legacy of bold frontier settlers with the American Dream in their hearts, but an ingenious ploy to sell records.
Bang goes the fairy tale. Enjoyable, straightforward to learn and not requiring a partner, line dance was bound to spread. In many countries, particularly across continental Europe, the US military laid the first foundations, sharing line and country-dance with the locals. A long-standing affection for country music in the UK was a powerful springboard, and line dance rapidly became a part of the holiday camp country music scene.
At Dance With Me line dancing is a very popular style as it does not require a partner and once again you have the freedom to express yourself on the dance floor. We have many forms of Line dances to all kinds of music and finds that it also helps the students to learn the steps for the actual partner dances in a different kind of way.