How Do You Dance The Country Two-Step?
How to Dance the Two-Step The count of a two-step is four: quick, quick, slow, slow. Listen to the beats in the music: quick, quick, slow, slow–quick, quick, slow, slow. Facing your partner, Leader, put your right hand around your partner’s waist, and hold her right hand with your left. Partner, put your left hand on his shoulder and hold his left hand. Leader, raise left arm with partner’s hand at a 45 to 90 degree angle. Leader, start with your left foot; follower, start with your right. Leader, step first with your left, to your left slightly, then quickly follow with your right next to, but slightly behind your left. That is the “quick, quick” of the count. Count: left-right-LLEEFFTT-RRIIGGHHTT Quick-Quick-SLOOOW-SLOOOW. Next, Leader, step slowly left with your left foot once, then step slowly with your right foot slightly to the right. Leader, begin again with your left foot on the next “quick-quick” in step 4, and continue repeating the steps until the song is complete.
