Welcome back to this week's recap of Live Laugh Linedance! In today's post I shall be recapping the latest 2 episodes of the show. Let me know which was your favourite dance in the comments below. Read on to view the details of the dances shown and the links to the scripts on Linedancer Magazine's Website.

Episode 13

Greater than me - Maggie Gallagher (Imp)

Little zou bisou - Sandra Speck (Beg)

Liquid lunch - Alison Biggs and Peter Metelnick (Int)

Heartbreak express - Peter Metelnick (Int)

Tough love - Karl Harry Winson (Int)

Nights in white satin - Linda Burgess (Int)

With these eyes - Darren Bailey and Niels Poulsen (Int)

Episode 14

Bittersweet Memory - Ria Vos (Int)
Under the sun - Sue Hsu & Kathy Chang (Beg)
Kelly's cannibals - Bev & Liz Clarke (Beg/Int)
Your place or mine - Karl-Harry Winson, Ria Vos & Robbie McGowan Hickie (Int)
Turn the beat around - Rob Fowler & Dee Musk (Int)
Girl Crush - Rachael McEnaney - White & Alison Johnstone (Int)

Let me know in the comments below which was your favourite.

Welcome back to this week's recap of Live Laugh Linedance! In today's post I shall be recapping the latest 2 episodes of the show. Let me know which was your favourite dance in the comments below.

Episode 11

About feelings - Ria Vos (Int)

DHSS - Gaye Teather (Beg)

Feet don't fail me now - Peter Metelnick (Int)

Well do ya - Kim Ray (Imp)

My Pretty Belinda - Vikki Morris (Beg)

Somebody like you - Alan Birchall (Adv)

Episode 12

Lay Low - Darren Bailey (Imp)

Big Blue Tree - Ria Vos (Beg)

Quando when Quando - Theresa & Vera (Int)

Mirror Mirror - Robbie Mcgowan Hickie & Dwight Meessen (Int)

Blackpool by the sea - Gaye Teather (Imp)

Hello Dolly - Lorraine Kurtela (Imp)

Welcome to this weeks review of Live Laugh Line Dance (Episode 51)  the last episode of 2015 until the show returns in 2016. I'm a bit late watching this so if you also haven't watched this yet please click here to catch up on Episode 51.

Episode 51

This weeks episode was a look back at the dances being danced and the personalities who were featured on the show. The episode opened with an interview by Nikki Sharon with Rob Fowler at the Bracklesham Bay Summer Ball where he was a featured choreographer. He mentioned his current projects specifically "Legends in Line" the aim of which is to preserve the classic dances and to teach those to people who may have missed this the first time around or as Rob Fowler described it, "A tribute and a celebration of all the dances that we've danced on the dance floor for 20 years." It sounds brilliant, and I know we are considering this as one of our options for a dance weekend next year.

The first interview was followed by the opening dance "Price of Admission" choreographed by Daniel Trepat, Darren Bailey, Magali Chabret & Rob Fowler. This dance was taught at the Bracklesham Bay Weekend and is a lovely dance to a nice country song of the same name by Bradley Walker.

Hillary Kurt Webster than interviewed Karl Harry Winson also at the Bracklesham Bay, they were discussing the various genre's of music and styles of dances that we are currently enjoying dancing too. Hills also complimented Karl on his success at the 2015 CBA's where he walked away with three awards for Male Dance Personality, UK Instructor & Dance of the Year (with Robbie McGowan Hickie) for "Alcazar". This year he has been nominated for UK Choreographer, UK instructor, Male Dance Personality, Intermediate Dance for "Your Place or mine" (with Ria Vos & Robbie Mcgowan Hickie), and Advanced Dance for "The Remix" (With Yvonne Anderson) along with "Alcazar" for Dance of the Decade so I think he has a good chance of winning in at least one category.

The next dance featured was "Pop 'n' Drop" by Dee Musk and Ria Vos (also one of my current favourite dances) and was another dance taught at the BB weekend. This dance goes so well to the music whilst being a bit of a challenge as well - good fun to dance to.

We then had a brief entertainment with OGR sound (Glenn Roger's family) before moving on to "Shut up and Dance," choreographed by the shows sponsors Alison Biggs and Peter Metelnick. This is actually my favourite pop song of 2015 and the dance looks brilliant. Unfortunately, in the region where I dance this wasn't widely danced and I don't recall it going high in the charts (it's currently 37th in the intermediate line dancer magazine charts) which is a shame, compared to "Black Magic" which is still riding high at number 4.

Nicky then interviewed  John and Jo Kinser who talked about their 30 years in line dance and reminisced about the various workshops that used to exist including workshops on technique. This has been a hot topic of discussion recently on both the line dancer magazine facebook page and also within my own class. Some of the instructors such as Rachael McEnaney-White do include tips on styling when teaching their dances but this is not widespread. I know several people in my own class are interested in doing a workshop on Styling and Technique so it would be interesting to see whether anything comes of this.

Our next dance was "Gods of Love," by Dee Musk a great track and a good one to sing along too (the track is very catchy). Dee was also a featured choreographer at the BB weekend and was interviewed by Nikki where they discussed Dee touring all over the world, from Japan to Rio and visiting Europe in between - she is very popular at the moment and has been nominated for 5 CBA's for 2016, UK Choreographer, UK Instructor, Female Dance Personality, Improver Dance (Heavenly Cha) & Dance of the Decade (Little Red Book) so I expect to see her to walk away with at least one of the awards.

The final dance this weekend was old favourite "Patient Heart" which has seen a massive surge in popularity in recent years and is regularly a floor filler at my local classes, a great sing along track this will be around for many years to come.

That's all for today - here are the scripts for the dances featured in the episode:
Price of Admission Daniel Trepat, Darren Bailey, Magali Chabret & Rob Fowler (Imp)
Pop n Drop Dee Musk & Ria Vos (int)
Shut up and Dance Alison Biggs & Peter Metelnick (int)
Gods of Love Dee Musk (Imp)
Patient Heart Michael Vera-Lobos & Lisa Foord (Int)

Do you ever feel like some people seem to follow you around?

You haven't seen them for ages and then you seem to see them everywhere?

That seems to be happening to me at the moment when a surprise guest at one of my class' (Boogie Shoes) social's turned out to be no other than Maggie G dropping in for a night at our social in Berkeley.

To be honest it was hardly a surprise, and no one seemed particularly surprised either as clues were placed on Facebook indicating a famous choreographer was coming and then the secret was leaked earlier and the day and I got a facebook message at about 3pm informing me she was coming.

It's only been a few weeks since I last saw Maggie at a workshop in Woodstock when she taught 4 new dances so I was half expecting her to teach one of those. In fact she had another dance up her sleeve! (Where does she get all of these?)

Our one teach for the evening was SAX, an intermediate 2 wall dance to the track of the same name by Fleur East - previously of X-factor fame and now the feature music on the ASDA Christmas advert.

I have to say it was a great dance which I really enjoyed doing - Maggie is also an excellent teacher so I was surprised on Tuesday when my instructor taught this as to how much of the dance I still remembered.

Maggie videoed her dance on the night and unlike last time when only my shoe featured in the Second Hand Heart video, this time you get the rest of me - although being on the end I am not in it the whole way through which is a blessing as I did not have the dance as perfectly as I would like to have done.

To view the script please click here

or watch the video below

Here is another video of my new dance Sax.The video on YouTube is muted as I'm told sound has been blocked in 244 countries!!
Posted by Maggie G Line Dance Choreographer on Sunday, 8 November 2015

Let me know what you think of it.

PS. I also got to have a quick chat with Maggie and congratulated her on her 2 Crystal Boot Award nominations for "Superheroes" (told you this would get a nomination) and"The Galway Gathering."
Maggie asked me for my votes and if you also like both dances please vote (full details available on the Crystal Boot Awards website).

Welcome to this weeks review of Live Laugh Line Dance! - If you haven't watched Episode 47 - I don't want to spoil the fun for you so please, stop reading, click here and watch the current week (47 at time of writing) episode.

Episode 47

This weeks episode was hosted by the lovely Hillary Kurt Webster as Nikki Sharon was at a line dance event. Hillary always comes across as a really fun, but down to earth character so I do hope I get a chance to meet her at some point.

Episode 47 kicked off with "The Bomp" a favourite of the Live! Laugh! Linedance! team as it has appeared several times on the show and is still very popular on both Linedancer and Copperknob. This recording was made at the Bracklesham Bay weekend and it features Kim Ray dancing in the 2nd Row (dressed in red) It has also been nominated as the Improver dance of the year at the Crystal Boot Awards - (nominations for the CBA's will be discussed separately in a further post).

Alison and Peter then introduced "Knee Deep", an improver dance of theirs from 5 years ago (has it really been that long?), I haven't danced this one in a while but I remember it being a lovely little dance, to a great track by the Zac Brown Band - a good one to sing along to and also one of the first revivals of the "walking around in a circle" steps which is very popular right now and found in a lot of dances.

"Goodbye California" was this week's entry from Rob Fowler, - this is new to me but I really love the music and the dance seems to go really well.

Next up we had a short piece from Nikki who was (very appropriately) dressed up for what appeared to be a halloween outfit for a themed night on her weekend away. In the piece she encouraged dancers to go on line dance weekends away with their clubs (which I very much encourage) - for those who haven't been I can promise you that once you've been on one weekend you will definitely want to go on another.

Ria Vos, is a very popular name in line dancing at the moment. Recently she has written some lovely dances of which I count "No man's land," this is a beautiful dance but unfortunately the video was not that impressive. Well to be frank it was a bit of a mess... dancers going all over the place, very few people knowing what they were doing... but at least they looked like they were having fun :-D I'd also like to give a special mention to the lady in the pink top at the front - whilst all hell was breaking loose around her she kept going (and to me that's what line dancing is all about.)

The next dance was "Wasn't expecting that," by Richard Palmer and Lorna Dennis. I've heard this song on a number of occasions, it's beautiful and emotional and incredibly sad at the end (if you ever watch the artist music video please have a box of tissues to hand). 

The Classic dance this week was Kathy Hunyadi's "The One for Me" which I have never come across before however it's a fun little dance to a lovely track by the Rascal Flatts (one of my favourite country bands) and I hope it pops up again in the future.

In honour of the Halloween theme of last weeks episode the music over the credits in this weeks episode were replaced with "The 'Rogers' Mash" Glenn Rogers own take on the famous 'Monster Mash'. It was a fun one to listen to and I laughed a few times, it makes a nice change from the usual music on the end credits.

That's all I have time for today. Scripts for all dances featured in this weeks episode are featured below. I also have no affiliation to the TV Show whatsoever. Please feel free to add any comments below on your thoughts for this week's episode.

The Bomp Kim Ray (Imp)

Knee Deep Alison Biggs & Peter Metelnick (Imp)

Goodbye California Rob Fowler (Int)

No Man's Land Ria Vos (Int)

Wasn't Expecting That Richard Palmer & Lorna Dennis (Imp)

The One for Me Kathy Hunyadi (Imp)

I came across a lovely track the other day when listening to one of my partner's new CD's. He is a mobile DJ and is always receiving new CD's with the latest music on and every now and then I get to hear a track which perhaps hasn't really hit the mainstream yet.

That's how I came to hear the song 'Boomerang' by Emin and featuring Nile Rogers. The minute I heard the track I knew it was perfect for a line dance and with the phrasing of the music I knew it would make a great 32 count dance.

I put the music on and pretty much danced the first 24 counts right there and then before adding on the end. The only down side is that with the phrasing of the music you either need to have 2 restarts or a tag. I was going to go for restarts - it seemed to work ok but then I realised my first restart meant restarting the dance on the front wall and that wasn't going to work for me.

A 16 count tag is also quite big by line dance standards but then I remembered one of my favourite classic dance's "Patient Heart" also had a similar length tag in so I knew I could make it work. I put together something simple and that was it - all done. I had written a 32 count, 4 wall improver dance.

My next problem was getting the dance videoed - I'm not a fan of videoing dances in people's houses, I think it looks better on a dance floor and gives more of an accurate idea of how much floor space is needed for the dance. I am not a line dance instructor, I don't have my own class, or my own hall but on Thursday I was asked to cover my friend's class. It was the perfect opportunity to get my dance videoed and here is the finished product, "Like a Boomerang":

Click here to view the script.

Or click the relevant website below to view the script at each
Line Dancer Magazine
Copperknob

Thank you

This weeks episode review comes slightly late so apologies for that.

Eagle eyed reviewers may have noted that there was no episode 45 review and this was due to the episode broadcast being a recap episode and so I have decided to carry on with episode 46.

As usual if you haven't yet watched this, stop reading now and click here to watch this weeks episode.

Episode 46 Review

This week our usual presenters Hills and Nikki were back and the episode kicked off with "Lay Low" by Darren Bailey choreographed to the track of the same name by Josh Turner. This is a lovely improver dance which I particularly like.

The next dance was "New Shade of Blue" choreographed by Yvonne Anderson to the track of the same name by Southern Pacific. This easy improver dance looks lovely to dance to with only 2 restarts and the laid back style of the dance and relaxed speed makes this look like a great dance to do.

"Superheroes" was this weeks offering by Maggie Gallagher (for a review of her recent event at Woodstock click here) This advanced dance to The Script is looking like a good candidate for the advanced dance of the year at the 2016 Crystal Boot Awards.

Back to Bracklesham Bay next and the dance "Walk with me" by Rob Fowler a 48 count 2 wall dance to Would you go with me by Josh Turner. (The second of his to feature, must be Josh Turner week!) Love the upbeatness of this track and whilst I haven't done this it looks like a great dance and there don't appear to be any restarts/ tags in this which in my book is even better.

Robbie McGowan Hickie's offering this week was "Crazy For You" a 64 Count Intermediate dance on 2 walls. The music for this is very 50s/60s inspired with 'shoopy' style music, and the dance really seems to incorporate this.

Trivia time! I've learnt something new - "Simplemente" by Kate Sala was originally called 'Heaven Sent' - Our Classic dance for episode 45, this dance was originally choreographed in 2005 and I remember the music for this one so I think I may have done it at some point. I still love this music and I think this would be a great blast from the past - particularly as there are not many latino inspired dances around just at the moment.

This weeks party dance was the partner dance "Tempted" performed by Glenn Rogers and Natalie from Calico. A fun little dance perfect for socials and live music act events, we don't see enough of this dance. I still love the track as much as the first time I heard it this really is another classic dance!

That's it for today. A full list of the dances featured on the show are listed below with links to the scripts on Copperknob (It's easier to link to them than line dancer magazine)

Dances featured:

Lay Low - Darren Bailey (Imp)
New Shade of Blue - Yvonne Anderson (Imp)
Superheroes - Maggie G (Adv)
Walk with me - Rob Fowler (Int)
Crazy for you - Robbie McGowan Hickie (Int)
Simplemente - Kate Sala (Int)
Tempted - John & Janette Sandham (beg)

Do you line dance? Add your own reasons as to why you enjoy line dancing in the comments below.