Welcome Dancers,
Below you will find Video Tutorials covering some of the steps you may learn at school!
Feel free to work ahead and learn new steps as you’re ready.
Please Practice “Skipping 23’s” and “Leap Overs” until you’re comfortable with them. These are foundational movements that will help you learn everything else!
Please learn steps in order 1st, 2nd, 3rd and onwards. Happy Dancing!
Put the right foot in front
Lift the right leg up in front of you
JUMP onto the right foot
Kick the back leg up and bring it forward, in front of the right foot
step close behind
”Leap over, step in front, close behind”
Skipping 23’s are a “traveling” step that lets you fly around the room! They can be started with a “whip” or a “push”. TEC students have learned the “whip” method!
“Whip step-close-step, kick forward close-step, kick forward close-step….”
1st Reel Step!
”8 leapovers in a circle, whip 7’s, hop hop leap 23”
2nd Reel Step!
“Hop side step, hop side step, hop 234567, 3 points, kick back, whip turn 234567”
3rd Reel Step!
“Puddle dance”
”123, point kick back, whip 234567, and toe, and heel, leap over 23, whip turn 234567”
4th Reel Step
”point switch point, leap 23, hop 23, leap 23, Whip 234567 scissor 23, leap-over turn around”
Fancy Reel
“Whip 23, switch step 23….”
Slip Jig. The ladies dance. “Switch switch step close”
Friday Hardshoe Dancers practice
1st Treble Jig (older girls learned on Friday)
1st Beginner Treble Jig Full Speed
Novice Slip Jig
The 4-hand
The Six-Hand