Last wheel turn

The last move we learned:

Last grapevine

Here's the transition from the turn to the last grapevine:

And here's exactly how to do the last grapevine:

Final Section

Here is everything else we learned:

The Point
Point to the audience on 1. Pop your right shoulder on 3 and 4.

The Leg Roll


The Turn

Large Circle

After the reveal, you have 12 counts to get into a large circle -- not a U, a circle -- with everyone facing out. On count 5, straighten up tall with your hands in the air and then drop to a crouch. This is just like you did when you were in the U.

Here's a video of what happens next:

- Stay crouching and sweep your arm and leg around to get into crab position. Now, where everyone WAS facing out from the circle, you are NOW facing counterclockwise.
- After 16 counts, lift your left leg straight up in the air and then cross it over the right leg.
- Immediately, the ripple starts. You take your left arm over and rotate to the right. It looks harder than it is.

The Big Reveal

The big reveal! Your triangle has formed a line front to back, with a girl at the back. Now here's what happens:

The Breakdown:
Counts 1-4: The 5 front people take four counts to lunge out to the side, revealing the girl at the back, who goes up high and makes a cute pose. Ta-dah! (Girl at back: Get into that pose by count 2, so the audience has something to look at)
Counts 5-6: The 2 people in front do a death drop to the side. That's a sudden drop to push-up position. The 3 people behind them bring their lunge in, more towards the center of the line. This should look like, "Whoa, did they just do that??" The last girl also comes down from her pose. All of the attention here should be on the death drop.
Counts 7-8: The 2 people in front stay in the same push-up position. Everyone behind them brings their audience arm around and drops down to a squat.

We Are Family - April 30th Rehearsal

Thanks to all who came to the dance rehearsal this weekend!

Here's the first part of what we learned. It picks up from the grapevine after you have left the big U (see the previous posts).

We learned through the "King Tut" move at our last rehearsal. That's the hand movements back to back. Then comes the new stuff:

After you squat down on counts 7 and 8, you crank up on counts 1 and 3. Bring your audience hand (the one closest to the front) up to an invisible surface at the level of your knees, and then it looks like you push up your body from that invisible surface. Then bring the hand up higher and do it again.

On counts 5-8, the 3 couples that formed a triangle (remember your triangles?) form a straight line front to back. Put a girl at the back.

How To Use This Blog

Need help remembering the new dance you learned? Here you'll find videos from Friday night's practice!

Remember that the newest posts show up at the top of the page, so to go from the beginning of the dance to the end, you'll need to start at the bottom. The easiest way may be to look at the Archives list on the right of the page. You'll find the following:

- Video of the 1st half of We Are Family to music
- Video of the 2nd half of We Are Family by count
- Clips of individual dance moves or small sections of dance moves.

If you have any questions about some of the dance, comment on one of the posts, and we'll help you out!

Group Swing Number

Here's your group swing number:

We Are Family - Hands

Hands up then down to the box to the knees to the right, to the right, to the left, to the left, now dip, baby, dip.... oops. Wrong dance.

Here ya go:

Plus the VERY LAST PART:

We Are Family - Back to Back

This shows the leader kicking a leg over the follower and the back to back foot taps:

We Are Family - Rib Isolations

Practice Practice Practice! Make it BIG!!!!

Leaders go to the LEFT first, so their LEFT arm goes around first.
Followers go to the RIGHT first, so their RIGHT arm goes first.

We Are Family - Grapevine

Here's the grapevine. Remember that at the end of it, the leader needs to be right behind the follower:

We Are Family - Knee Lifts

Knee Lifts:

After this, you go into the semicircle. Watch the runthrough of the first half to see that part.

We Are Family - partner switch

Here's where the followers step back and to the side, and the leaders step forward and to the side. This is what it looks like:

And here is how you do it:

We Are Family - Get Up Everybody and Sing

Here's the next small chunk:

We Are Family - Step and Move

That inside leg step then other leg then shift thing with the arms and the moves and the stuff? Right here.

Here's how the feet go:

And the other direction:

We Are Family - Individual Moves Part 1

If there's a specific part of the dance that's difficult for you, you might find help here.

Here is the first chunk of dance moves, done by count:

We Are Family

Can't remember those awesome dance moves you learned? Maybe this will help!

First half with music:

Second half: