I Hope You Dance - 10 Reasons To Line Dance

The number 1 reason line dancers do it is for FUN!

It's a laugh, it's a blast, it's friendly, happy, endorphin injected, pure unadulterated unashamed FUN!

What more can I say, if you're already doing it you'll agree, if you aren't then get out to a line dancing venue with a good teacher and join in the fun.

You'll meet some amazing, fun loving people, and they'll welcome you in.

Everyone I've ever met at line dancing is Friendly.

Go along alone or with a friend and you'll be made to feel welcome. You'll find a great atmosphere and lovely people. I don't understand why but line dancing just seems to attract the friendliest people.

Whatever your age - anywhere from 5 to 95. (You can dance after 95 if you wish, I just said 5 to 95 for effect) as long as you can walk, you can line dance.

This is good clean family fun (most of the time!).

Kids love it and everyone acts like kids anyway!

Ever fancied dancing but the whole partner thing puts you off?

Great News! You can experience the thrill of dancing with other people but without needing a partner. If you like dancing with a partner as well, no problem, we have partner dances too.

Let yourself go. Just be responsible for your own moves and mistakes. (Great for feminists I imagine).

Ever seen the film Billy Elliot? Fancied the freedom of dance but not the rigor of ballet?

Do you like music?

Then you're gonna love line dancing. There's such a feeling that greets you and stays with you when you experience dancing.

Ok some of you may not like country. Well we dance to all kinds of music as well as country and the country that we dance to is good stuff.

Once you learn the basic moves, you can line dance all over the world.

I've danced in the States and the U.K. and it's more or less the same crazy, friendly people I've met.

You can dance in Canada,Europe, Australia... sorry I'd have to list nearly every country if I start.

I don't want to put anyone off by mentioning exercise!!

This is exercise you do without thinking because you're enjoying it so much.

...and it's as hard or as easy as you want it to be. You can take small steps if you wish or you can run and skip around the room. You can avoid the more strenuous dances if you must. You can work yourself up to them. You can dance for hours or you can sit chatting for hours.

What? Mental exercise? How does that work?

Well you don't just learn one dance and dance that for the rest of your life. Oh no, not that easy!

You can learn maybe a couple of new dances every week and that can really tax your gray cells... but hey who said keeping young was going to be easy? There are dancers in their 80s with more learning capacity than me (but we build up to that)

I know that this matters to a lot of people. A good night out can be beyond your reach and with many hobbies there's special clothing and equipment to buy.

NOT WITH LINE DANCING.

Jeans and a T shirt. Some shoes or boots suitable for dancing is your major expense after that it can cost very little.

The venues and classes are usually very affordable.

You won't want to drink much alcohol, unless it's a special occasion, because you wouldn't be capable of dancing!!

When you start learning a dance and think I'll never learn this, and then you do and you enjoy it and you feel that you have achieved something good and worthwhile.

Line dancing is about having good fun with friends, experiencing the freedom of dance and enjoyment of music. It's great exercise both for body and mind and fantastic anti ageing therapy and on top of all that it gives you a wonderful sense of achievement.

If you aren't dancing you're not living.