Dance Spotlight 'Woman up' by Rachael McEnaney-White & Amy Christian
In this week's 'Dance Spotlight' I'm reviewing 'Woman up' a new dance by Rachael McEnaney-White & Amy Christian. I've chosen this dance as I learnt it just this week at the Boogie Shoes class and it's quickly become my new favourite dance.
Woman Up
Dance 'Vitals'48 count
Intermediate
2 Walls
Woman Up by Meghan Trainor
Choreographed by Rachael McEnaney-White & Amy Christian
View the Scripts
Copperknob
Linedancer
Review
This is a very new dance to me -I have to confess I'd not heard anything about this dance before I did it as I've not been keeping a close eye on the charts like I normally do and I've also not had the opportunity to listen to Lorraine's lovely show for a few weeks (which I intend to rectify asap).
As soon as we started to learn this I loved the steps because they reminded me of Zumba which I had to give up a few years ago unfortunately. I met Rachael for the first time last year at a workshop she did in Oxford and we did talk very briefly about zumba and I realised then that she is a zumba instructor which really makes sense when you dance some of the steps in her dances.
I love the steps in this, from the side close with hip action styling, pivot with hip roll, turn and point, the samba steps and that last step where you shuffle around in a circle (and can't help but raise your arms). I really enjoy doing this one.
The music is great, it's Meghan Trainor its a proper sing a long track with plenty of attitude and very easy to dance to. A great beat and not too fast to dance to, I've already listened to it half a dozen times on youtube. It's a real girl power anthem.
This is an intermediate dance and it really feels like one, I did find it a bit challenging in parts to get my head around and some of the steps -in particular the last 4 count - felt a bit 'unnatural' in that my body wanted to go the opposite direction to what the scripts said so obviously that's going to take some time and some practice to get used to. But you can see what they are doing with the dance and it makes sense.
We also have the popular 'Diamond step' making an appearance in this dance. It's really popular at the moment with quite a few dances having this in and it works really well in this dance and leads you easily into the next section.
There is a tag towards the end (5th wall) where you repeat the last 16 counts so that takes some getting used to in the music. It caught me by surprise and I think I'm going to need to do this one a few more times in order to work out where it is but as you are not doing any new steps the tag in itself is not hard. It's just a case of working out where it is and where in the dance to restart from and I guess it is very much a case of 'Practice makes perfect'.
I'm certainly looking forward to dancing this again.
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