A Brief History Of Linedancing
Linedancing is believed to have come from folk-dancing (like the Irish River Dance). In the 1800's a lot of people went to North America and took with them some of their Native Dancing. Linedancing itself evolved from waltz & polka and became known as square dancing and rounds.

In the 1860-90's cowboys/girls started to turn the steps into more country and western style i.e. cowboy struts (a step)this was mainly influenced by their culture, way of life and the time in which they lived. Linedancing became a very popular activity, people would linedance at social events and it was even taught in schools.

Since the days of the old cowboys/girls, linedancing has become much more modern and up to date. I would just like to clear-up one major thing that turns most people off of linedancing - the Wild West- Linedancing may have come from cowboys but that does not mean that our dancers are all dressed as western fronteir women/men. Most of us do not put our thumbs in our belt loops or wear cowboy hats and hardly any IF ANY of us ever shout "YEE-HAW". Infact a lot of the people I dance with dress as any normal person would at home. Some dancers do like to dress like a cowboy/girl but they are in the minority and to be quite honest they still enjoy themselvs as much as any of us.

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