Talk:Line dance

So, what the 'line dance' is, after all?
So, what the 'line dance' is, after all? A 15-minute web browsing didn't help much. Mikkalai 20:49, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * I am not to prod anybody, but it seems there is much more to be said on the subject. My lazy web search uncovered such things as "line dance competition" "vanilla patterns", "novelty", "funky", "barn dance". Talk about decline :-)... Mikkalai 21:33, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * Then why don't you add some of the stuff you researched into the article ? theresa knott 10:13, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * With all my pleasure! That's what I am doing recently nearly all my spare time. But exactly this what starts worrying me: quite a few articles appear to be written by people who have only cursory and superficial knowledge about the subject. And quite often they put a hearsay in. The intentions could be good. But I am pretty reluctant to be one of these and write about things I know zilch, nothing. Tell me if I am wrong, and I'll flood you :-). Mikkalai 15:55, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * I will second the above comment. And, Mikkalai, if you are concerned about your English writing skills, as you stated on another page recently, please just do your best.  I or someone else with an interest in this page will come back and help you with the writing style, and the finetuning. And by the way, I am also doing some research on this subject to help rewrite the article.  There is much more to be said on the subject than appears on this page.  So, happy writing!  :Sfdan 13:15, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

umm... feel free to add my stuff on linedance to your line dance page... but only if you don't mind me throwing some bits in as and when i get chance to write them.... also, we need a history/chronology of the scene... subsections for notable contributors to linedance over the years (probably in the form of references to biographys on them), we also need to advertise the fact that line dance it getting wiki-sized, and encourage contributors --193.61.234.6 17:00, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Adding material to LINE DANCE page
I am a very new member of Wikipedia. As I am a practising line dancer, I can usefully add material to the page. I have already done VARIATIONS and STEP DESCRIPTIONS (a start only). I have also put in something on CAPE DANCES.

Am I doing it the right way?

What's all the little signs at the bottom of the page here?

Please be helpful - I don't want to get in anyone's way. --Teachalakazi 20:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The blue signs below the edit box are used to quickly include characters thatare difficult to insert with most keyboar settings, such as mdashes, accented or Greek characters. Circeus 20:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Linedance = Line Dance in my opinion. I don't see any need to have two articles on the same subject. And I would stick with the Line Dance subject rather than running the two words together.

Steve Pastor 20:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC) Nov 2, 2006


 * I've merged the articles. Almost nothing needed to be moved, since nearly everything from linedance was already under linedances. --Largo Plazo 02:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Cape Dance
The only references I have seen to "cape dance" refer to using a cape as a prop. What I would like to see is somewhere else where the position that is described here is referred to as a "cape dance", rather than additional examples of dances using this position.Steve Pastor 22:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry, you're right. It didn't hit me that it was the term you were referring to. It made sense to me, but indeed I hadn't heard it before, and don't find any relevant references to it using Google. (I could have just restored the but the fact that I can't find any use of the term on Google is pretty convincing to me. I've rewritten the paragraph and modified the one before it. --Largo Plazo 00:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

History and Competition
I see my name is associated with the deletion of material on competition. I'm not sure what happened there??? Whatever it was, it was not intentional. Steve Pastor 21:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Formation?
Am I the only one who finds describing people getting into lines as a "formation" quite an overstatement? If you had to be directly behind the person in front of you, or if each line had to be off set from the line in front, that would be a formation. In fact, although people are "in lines" in general, the lines often disintegrate when "the wall" changes. And, quite often people won't be in any particular line. It's all pretty informal. If it was really a formation, as with marching bands performing at half time in a football game (US), the formation wouldn't break down. Please weigh in with your opinions. Steve Pastor 22:43, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Formation as a loose term is probably OK in that it's a general grid shape, so if everyone rotates 90 degrees, everyone's still in a line as opposed to random positions. This doesn't mean there has to be the same number of people in each line. Marky1981 23:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * One source of confusion is there are several completely different genres of line dance, and references to the different forms are mixed in this article as it stands.  Country western line dance, which this article seems to be focusing on, is pretty informal as you say.  However folk line dance, originating in many traditional cultures, and performed in the international folk dance movement, is a much broader subject.  Balkan line dance for example can be more formal, and have a variety of different formations.  -- Chetvorno TALK 21:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Urban Craze
In addition to Wikipedia not being a bulletin board, it is not a newspaper or magazine. There are major on line databases with line dances. One of the previously mentioned dances is not in at least one of the major resources. All information in Wikipedia is expected to be verifiable. Electric Slide has been around for a long time. I am also fairly certain that commercial links are inappropriate. Steve Pastor 00:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Second. How could you leave out the Electric Slide? 50.46.6.223 (talk) 03:15, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Non-neutral opinionating
Stuff like this is not encyclopedic: "Note: "Classic" designates old standards. Many line dances come and go, but the "classic" line dances are still with us after many years and still being danced in many parts of the world." More like something one might write in a high school English paper or something. Who's "we"? Cite a source using these terms. Cite a source labeling each song a line dance, and labeling them "classic" or otherwise. And so on. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 04:25, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Lack of information
This article mainly focuses on country music, and doesn't go over the history of line dances before this type of music. There were many line dances that came about in the early 19th century that still exist to this day, such as the Shim Sham Shimmy, the Tranky Doo, the Big Apple, to name a few from the Swing Era. Additionally, I don't see anything about more modern line dances, such as the Cha Cha Slide or the Cupid Shuffle.

Line Dances are not genre specific; perhaps a distinction should be made between line dancing country culture and a line dance. I think this article should focus on what a line dance is in general, and then go on to discuss the country music culture of line dancing. Shicoco (talk) 18:11, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

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Edit request
Hey, could someone take away that first bit about dancers facing each other? That's Contra dance (also called contraline dance), not line dance.

Locomotion
Surely Carole King & Gerry Goffin's "Locomotion" should have its own place in Line Dancing history? The song as written obliquely referenced railway lines and I gather the original dance had to be "stepped" to match the lyrics for dancers to perform with Little Eva for stage/TV, the dancers silhouetted in a single line at back of stage. Period gig pics show dancers doing the steps in a conga-style serpentine line, later adapted for modern multi-line styles. Is there any earlier song that has this deep-rooted period link between lyrics/lines/steps? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.32.118.192 (talk) 00:49, 21 April 2022 (UTC)