Cowboy Charleston teach 05202021

Hi all, it's Brooke Burasic with Cross the Line Dancing Houston. I hope you all are doing well. I'm here to teach you a new beginner line dance called Cowboy Charleston. This is a 16 count, four wall, easy beginner line dance. Don't be fooled by the cowboy. You don't have to do this to country music, although I have one song here as an option for us to practice. We are also going to do it to Rock Around the Clock, which is a nice classic fun song. So this 16 count, four wall line dance is choreographed by Jeanette Hall and Tanya Miller. And I'm ready to go ahead and get started and teach you guys what it's about. So the stance is going to start off with a Charleston step, thus the name. So we need to learn what is a Charleston. Now with the Charleston, you can either do a kick forward and a step back and a touch step forward or you can touch that toe forward, touch, back, touch, forward, follow. So I'm going to teach just the touches to each side, but if you're feeling ambitious, you can go ahead and kick. So with that right foot, that's exactly how the dance starts. We're going to touch forward, take a step back with that right. Now we have our left foot free. We're going to touch back, then step forward with our left. Okay, now you just completed one full Charleston step. We are going to do two in a row. So let's start with our first. Touch, back, touch, forward. Again, touch, back, touch, forward. You just did half of the dance. That was eight counts. Let's walk through it with those counts. Ready, and a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Very good. Our weight is on our left foot. We're going to do two side touches. Touch, touch, 1, 2, 3. Now we're going to do two touches on our left side. Touch, touch, and we're going to say in our head, turn 2, 3. What does that look like? We're going to go behind, turn, step. So still three steps, and you're going to turn on that second step. So from the first touch, touch, touch, a 1, 2, 3. Touch, touch, behind, quarter step. Okay, now that first 1, 2, 3, you'll have some options there based on your instructor. If you come to my absolute beginner class, I'm just going to say step 1, 2, 3. However, if you look at the step sheet, you will see the step is called a modified sailor. For those students that like to learn their line dance vocabulary, you're doing your touch, touch, and then what your feet are doing is behind, side, side. So behind, side, side is your sailor step, and then you will continue as I just explained. Touch, touch, behind, quarter step. Okay, if that sounds like too much for you, just remember you step 1, 2, 3. Let's go through the whole thing top to bottom facing our 12 o'clock wall with our nice beautiful 12. Right foot starts, ready, and a touch, back, touch, forward, touch, back, touch, forward. Then we side, side, a 1, 2, 3. A side, side, 1, 2, 3. Good, how'd you do? Let's do that 12 o'clock wall one more time with the count. Ready, and a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Okay, we're ready for wall 2. Ready, and a 1, 2, 3, 4, again, 5, 6, 7, touch side. 1, 2, 3, and 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Very good, wall 3 is our back wall. We're doing great on the speed too. Ready, and a right, back, a left, forward, a right, back, a left, forward, we'll touch right, right, a 1, 2, 3, left, left, behind, quarter step. All right, good. Let's do our side wall. When we finish this wall and go face our 12 o'clock again, I want you to keep going. It's never good to finish a wall and just stop because then you forget what's the first step, Charleston. So when we turn to face this 12, just practice keep going with me. Ready, and a touch, back, touch, forward, a touch, back, a touch, forward, and a side. Side, 1, 2, 3, a side, side, a turn, 2, 3, again, touch, back, 3, 4, a 5, 6, 7, 8. A touch, touch, and 4, a touch, touch, a 7, and 8, and Charleston again. Good. I think we are ready for music. Let's go ahead and try our first song. This is Rock Around the Clock. 1, 2, 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, rock. 5, 6, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, rock. 9, 10, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, rock. We're going to rock around the clock. 5, 6, 7, 8. Great job, guys. Rock around the clock. Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock. Rock around the clock. Alright, let's go ahead and try a country song. A cat sitting on a railroad track. I looked up to mama and she kissed him back. 5, 6, 7, 8. Bring it all down to my house, honey. Ain't nobody home but me. Old maids will lay up dead. One turned over and the other one said, Ain't nobody home but me. Alright, awesome job, you guys. I hope you enjoyed Cowboy Charleston. Again, I'm Britt Burecek out of Houston, Texas. If you're ever in town, come line dance with me. Otherwise, I'm here on YouTube, so follow any of the videos. And like and subscribe if you can. And I look forward to dancing with you sometime soon. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.