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Afternoon Dance Break – The Fort Worth Shuffle

8/18/2016

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"Western Square Dance Group" by Deirdre
Afternoon Dance Breaks - a chance to get up from the desk, crank up the tunes, and dance your fool head off for a few minutes before resuming the daily grind. ​​
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Let’s get right to the boot scootin’ playlist before we get schooled on country dance.

​We’ve got some high-energy tunes to shuffle your bustle from Rascal Flatts + LANco.

Press Play, turn it up, and get to stepping.

Here is a bodacious amount of information about two stepping – of which the Fort Worth Shuffle is one variation, with polka steps added to the mix – from no less an authority than Texas Highways Magazine. 

Most country dance patterns use some type of two-step or “shuffle-step” footwork, often mixed with spins and turns borrowed from swing dancing. […] Basic two-step footwork begins with two quick steps followed by two slow steps danced in six counts to a four-count rhythm. Two-stepping couples progress counterclockwise around the dance floor […]
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Sounds simple? It should be, except everyone has his or her own idiosyncratic style of two-stepping. Just like making chili or margaritas, two-steppers concoct endless variations from the same basic ingredients. In addition to the traditional Texas two-step with its side-to-side shuffling, there’s the progressive two-step (a simple walk with a quick-quick skip), the nearly stationary Arizona two-step (or rhythm two-step), the California two-step (or nightclub two-step, popular in discos), and the triple two-step (a.k.a., the Fort Worth shuffle), which blends rapid, polka-style triple steps with a fast walk.
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​Hmm. I like the Kitchen Zen of that:  ​Just like making chili or margaritas, two-steppers concoct endless variations from the same basic ingredients.
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