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Affinity Line Dance

A new easy beginner class for residents of Affinity at Mirabeau, a luxury senior living complex.

Tuesday is beginner day at the Spokane Valley Senior Center. The 9 am Slow & Easy class is an absolute beginner class, geared to new dancers and senior dancers who want a slower pace. The 10 am Beginner class is more challenging and faster paced.

Friday Line Dance

The Line Dance Plus class at the Senior Center is for dancers with experience. Dances are mainly at high beginner and improver level. We do a mix of new dances and old favorites.

Line Dance Terminology

Click to link to a glossary of line dance terminology.

Line Dance Stepsheets and Demos

Click to link to Copperknob.uk, a worldwide database of line dance stepsheets and demos of dances.

Basic Steps youtube Video

Click to link to an hour long video demonstrating the basic line dance steps. You may pause and practice as you watch.

Spokane Valley Line Dance provides free classes at the Spokane Valley Senior Center on Tuesday and Friday mornings. The goal of these classes is to encourage people to remain fit and active as we age. With this in mind, we do a mix of new dances and old favorites.

The benefits of line dance include:

Boosts memory
Improves balance and flexibility
Reduces Stress
Improves mood
Strengthens your heart
Increases energy and metabolism
Fun social activity

If you are mobile, can clap in time to music and like to have fun, you will love line dancing.
(We all make mistakes so you need to be able to laugh at yourself.) Join us and give it a try!

Judy Rausch

Line Dance Instructor

I am a retired RN/Health Care Educator having taught in a variety of nursing & allied health settings including a magnet high school. My spouse and I moved to Spokane Valley from Texas in June of 2020 to be closer to family. I began teaching at the Spokane Valley Senior Center in October 2021 when it opened up after Covid. I took my first line dance class in 2010 and was hooked. A group of ladies in my Sunday School class talked me into starting an easy class in the church gym while I was still a beginner myself. I have been teaching line dance ever since. I taught line dance as a volunteer for 10 years at churches and recreation centers in Arlington, Texas. I have taught all levels of line dance from basic beginner to advanced. For two years, I served on the Board of the North Texas Line Dance Association which sponsors the North Texas Line Dance Classic, a 2 day dance event in Farmers Branch, Texas. I have sponsored groups to many line dance events including H.O.T., Texas Line Dance Jamboree, Line Up & Dance, the Vegas Dance Explosion, and a Caribbean Cruise. I have also hosted workshops and taught/led dances at many line dance events, participated in several flash mobs and performed at nursing homes. I look forward to many more years of fun line dancing here in the Spokane area.

Janette Pavolich

Line Dance Instructor

Originally from Canada, I moved to Washington State in 2018. I heard about line dancing classes at the Senior Center through a friend. I have always been into fitness ie. walking, jogging, bowling I even taught aerobics for many years but I had no experience in dancing. I took one class with Judy and I was hooked ! Such a great way to stay in shape physically and mentally. Within a few weeks of coming to dance classes my sweet husband converted my garage into a dance studio and as the saying goes, the rest is history!

Slow & Easy Dances

Ah Si!- Rita Masur Are You Missing Me-Ron Bloye Capri Cha Cha- Chua Charleston Boogie - Soenju Cold Heart- Yusran Completely AB-Pat Stott Cowboy Charleston - Hall & Miller Crash and Burn-Vestergaard Cry Just a Little Bit - Vestergard Disco Duck - Haynes Do You Love Me -Laura Rittenhouse Forget You-Nicole Miller Gloria AB-Rosie Multari Good Morning-Thompson Heave Away-Rob Fowler K Step and Rumba-Oates Keep Up with a Cowgirl- Marschall Little Rumba-D. Laurin Looking at You Waltz-Rodgers Lucky Lips-Dary Lafferty Mamma Maria-Trace Mellow Moonlight-Ayers Money Money Money- Fuller Old Records-Cook & Fowler One Night At a Time EZPZ- Day Red Hot Salsa - Hemmes Rhythm & Rain-Kim Ray Rocket to the Sun-Glover Runaround Sue AB-Brookes Stand By Me - Roy & Raymond Stop Draggin' Your Boots-Wall Sway Mambo-Jeong Swingin' Thing-Thompson That Vibe AB - Atkinson Uh-Huh-Jo & Rita Thompson Waltz Easy Across Texas-Shanthie Wellerman-Schlooch When You Smile-Jose MIguel Won't You Dance With Me-Holcumb Yes Sir, I Can Boogie-McKenna

Beginner Dances

432 Cha Cha - B. Heidenreich Aimee's Waltz -J .Loafman Beautiful Women-Michelsen Better When I'm Dancing-Jennings Blue Note-Jan Smith Broke - Michelle Wright Come Dance with Me- Thompson S Dance With Everybody-Wright Easy Tonight-M. Wright Fiddle and Bow-Liz Atkinson Forever Cool-Thompson Szy Good Feelings-Whitehouse Happy Does-Hana Ries Head Over Heels-Beazley Heads Carolina-S. Moulin I Close My Eyes-Hazel Pace I Made You Look - Yin I Was on a Boat-T. Thornton Jamaica Walk - Pournelle Jingle Boogie-Lana Harvey Just Want to Dance-Lawson K is for Kicks - Gonzalez Keep it Simple-M. Gallagher Let's Groove Tonight - Ira Weisburd A Little Bit of Happiness -Roger Neff Little Red Book-Dee Musk Memphis Women & Chicken Mixing Moon-Verhagen & Mr. Tambourine Man - Huffman Old School Vibe-M. Wright Peaches & Cream-Peter & Pollina Reggae-I. Verhagen Running to the Sunshine - Godeau & Shy Waltz-Anne Hewitt Snap Your Fingers - Tripp Southern Soul Bounce-Verdonk Stroll Along Cha-unknown Sunroof-Shane McKeever Tennessee Waltz Surprise-Chumbley Texas Time-Pedersen Under the Sun-Kathy Chang Until the Dawn-Lafferty We're Good to Go-Rob Fowler When Will I Be Loved-O'Reilly YMCA - Erlandsson You're the One I Want - Tessmer

Line Dance Plus Dances

Bicycle Waltz-Heath Good to Me Waltz - Heavenly Waltz-Park Waltz Across Texas-Nielson 1-2-3-4 - Poulsen Adios Cowboy - Tina Argyle All Summer-Ria Vos American Kids-Pelletier Be a Better Man-Jose Miguel Bosa Nova-Dennington Bottle It Up-Nyffeler Crispy Chicken-Zahorsky Crowded Mind-McKeeer & Do It With Style-Gagnon EZ Go Crazy-Sholes & Feels Like Gold-Thornton & Get Along - Boucicot/Hayden Gypsy Queen-Hazel Pace Heaven's Jukebox-Jose Miguel I'm No Good - McEnaney-White Impossible Love-Poulsen In the Morning Sun-Ivonne Into Nightfall-N. Gifford Lay Low-Darren Bailey Mama & Me-Gary O'Reilly Marry Me -Dee Musk Memory Lane-Petrocelli Nightclub Kiss-Scowcroft No Body-Tina Argyle Pontoon-Gail Smith Sleepy Eyes- Palmer Storm & Stone-M. Glover Sweet Caroline-Bailey Tango With the Sheriff - Churm Tick Tock - Ira Weisburd Til the Neon's Gone-Bailey Whole Lotta Little-Barton