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Dance Name: HOME IS WHERE YOU ARE
Choreographed by: Rebecca Lee, Jennifer Choo
Description: 32 counts 2 Walls  intermediate nightclub dance
Music: To Mommy by Wang Yibo
Stepsheet: https://www.copperknob.co.uk/stepsheets/home-is-where-you-are-ID142349.aspx

This is a tribute to all mothers! Jit Lian, one of the Lim Sisters sent me the music (To Mommy by Wang Yibo) and I was touched by it immediately. Do check out the lyrics translation! When discussing with Rebecca Lee on having the Mother’s Day special online dance event, we decided to collaborate for this beautiful tribute song.

Rebecca and I have been talking about a collaboration since years ago but never came round completing one. Sometimes halfway into it but some other choreographers released another dance to the same music. We finally did it! It’s a 32 counts 2 wall intermediate nightclub line dance with a restart. I was supposed to teach this dance for the Mother’s Day event but due to an unfortunate retina hole 3 days before the event, I was not able to teach it. Rebecca taught it on my behalf. And I did a teach video a week after to give my ‘lasered retina’ a rest. I’ve been reducing my screentime as well, thus this article came a little late.

Stay healthy everyone!

Here are some videos:

My Teach:

My Demo:

Rebecca’s Demo:

Lai Nee (Malaysia):

Sophia (Taiwan):

Chen Ping (China)

Description: 70 count 2 wall country style line dance

Music: Watermelon Crawl by Tracy Byrd

Copperknob Stepsheet: https://www.copperknob.co.uk/stepsheets/the-new-watermelon-crawl-ID140621.aspx

Linedancerweb: https://www.linedancerweb.com/dance.php?id=63692

I normally don’t choreograph to music that already has a dance to it. However, someone really dear requested me to choreograph to it to keep up with the group of (modern) dancers who prefer to dance to music phrases. I agreed as other dances were set in unphrased for beginners. This dance is intermediate, phrased and with tags. Part A is danced to the verses and has 38 counts while Part B is danced to the chorus and has 32 counts. The tag is really simple with just a grapevine to the right and another to the left.

I actually used the lyrics of the 4th verse as the basis of my choreography. “She rocked back on her heels dropped down to her knees
Crawled across the floor then she jumped back on her feet.” So part A was just that, Rocking back, Do some heel & footwork, Hitch the knee (no way majority of line dancers would drop down to their precious knees and crawl across the floor!) Jazz Box and jumping back… I try to hit the crescendo with a flick etc. Do dance it with the music and you’ll know what I mean 🙂 Hope you will enjoy it as much as we did.

Try to learn it and dance at home in the global pandemic. I know classes and events have stopped but I’ve decided to release the dance anyway to keep you guys dancing at home. I’ve done a step by step teach video while I was in Mumbai India. Quite unplanned but there was a lovely dance studio at the Clubhouse where we stayed so I made use of it to do a teach video. Also taught my 2 nephews and boy, were they good in picking up the steps!

Anyway, I hope we all stay healthy! Stay at home and hope this pandemic will soon pass and we could all go back to our classes and dance events and NORMAL LIFE.

Demo Video:

Teach Video:

Video  by Angeline:

Demo & Teach by Pony Chen: