This story originally appeared in the January 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. New Year’s resolutions often focus on ...

The dance steps come in on the lyric, “Did your boots stop workin’?”: Right heel, left heel, right heel, lift and tap the right foot forward then back, pivot turn, and swirl an arm overhead like a ...

For Ava Stratford-Davies, line dancing is more than just a hobby. The 16-year-old has enjoyed the country dance style since she was seven, following in the footsteps of her mum, grandmother and ...

“Now turn toward the water heater!” Joel Reske yells on a Sunday night inside a nondescript garage on a residential San Francisco street. About 50 people shuffle and spin on their toes in unison, ...

One recent Wednesday night in Atlanta, dozens of people gathered in a studio space armed with water bottles, hand fans, towels and an expectation to be in sync. There were hugs among the regulars ...

According to local instructors and students, line dancing is back in the limelight. “Line dancing is a popular genre performed by a group of people and is a choreographed dance made of a repeated ...

Early into my tenure as a new line-dancing enthusiast, I found myself in Chatsworth, alone on a Friday night. I was looking for action — the country dance kind. It was not yet dusk when I entered the ...

Line dancing has been taken to a whole new level. The high-energy dance had the comments section baffled, since people usually think of country music when they think of line dancing. "I didn’t know ...