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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: