HotLinerz's Dance-Log

Evolution, a much controversial term, though, we can’t deny it’s happening all around us, our passion of line dancing inclusive.

3 yrs ago, when I started line dancing, we were doing a lot of dances to the tunes of country & western, and a few others of cha cha music. Line dancing was termed as an “Aunty dance” (and still is by certain ignorant groups) but line dancing has gone a long way and very much evolved into what we have today. Let’s see what are the prominent changes there are:

And nowadays, the younger generation are enjoying line dancing as much as the “Aunties” were, as many of the music of their generation were choreographed into amazing dances. I was from the 80’s & 90’s, and songs like Ice Ice Baby, which we used to dance during every party then, has a line dance (Ice – Shaz Walton). Imagine how excited we are! And nowadays, with latest groovy, top of the billboard songs choreographed into line dances, such as Low (Those Applebottom Jeans – Joey Warren) kept the youngsters and “Aunties” & “Uncles” alike, dance like never before, executing those “impossible” hip hop steps. 🙂 It sure made a lot of us feel younger again!

Was it like the “Chicken or Egg comes first?” case? Were the new hip songs the ones that attracted the younger generation? Or was it the younger generation that introduce the hip songs into line dancing?

I thought, maybe, a small group of younger generation started line dancing to hip songs which in turn attracted more line dancers of the younger generation.

Although we flow along the current of evolution, enjoying those new groovy and challenging hip hop line dances, we should never forget the genesis of line dancing – and I still do, very much enjoy the country and western dances, although I’ve been doing those less often nowadays…