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MAMBO ITALIANO

February 2004

CHOREOGRAPHY: Terry Hogan. Brisbane. Australia. (07 3357 9947)

MUSIC: Mambo Italiano by Bette Midler

DIFFICULTY RATING: Intermediate*

DESCRIPTION 32 count, 4 wall line dance turning anti-clockwise.

Count sequence; 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 8 (tag), 32, 32, 16 (tag), 32, 32, 8

1-8: R FWD, HOLD, ROCK FWD L, REPLACE, 1/4L SIDE SHUFFLE L-R-L, R CROSS ROCK, REPLACE

1,2 Step Right forward, Hold

3,4 Rock-step Left forward, replace back onto Right

5&6 Make 1/4 turn left and shuffle to the left side L,R,L

7,8 Cross-rock Right over Left, replace weight onto Left

9-16: SIDE R, HOLD, L TOGETHER, ROCK SIDE R, 1/4L REPLACE, R FWD, 1/2L, R FWD

1-4 Step side Right, Hold, step Left beside Right, rock-step side Right

5,6 Making 1/4 turn left replace weight forward onto Left, step Right forward

7,8 Make 1/2 pivot turn left onto Left, step Right forward

17-24: L FWD, HOLD, ROCK FWD R, REPLACE, SHUFFLE BACK R-L-R, L BACK, 1/4R SIDE

1,2 Step Left forward, Hold

3,4 Rock-step Right forward, replace back onto Left

5,6 Shuffle backward R,L,R

7,8 Step Left backward, make 1/4 turn right and step side Right

25-36: L FWD, HOLD, R CROSS, L DIAG BACK, R DIAG BACK, L FWD, R FWD, 1/2L

1,2 Step Left forward, Hold

3,4 Step Right over Left, step Left backward diagonally left

5,6 Step Right backward diagonally right, step Left slightly forward of Right

7,8 Step Right forward, make 1/2 pivot turn left onto Left

Tag - do counts 1-8 after 5th wall (you will be facing 9 o'clock), then after two more

walls (facing 3 o'clock), the whole 16 counts, then after 2 more walls counts 1-8 to

finish

1&2 Shuffle forward R,L,R

3,4 Step Left forward, Hold

5,6 Rock-step Right forward, replace back onto Left

7&8 Step Right backward, step Left beside Right

9&10 Shuffle forward R,L,R making 1/2 turn left

11,12 Rock-step Left backward, replace forward onto Right

13&14 Shuffle forward L,R,L making 1/2 turn right

15,16 Rock-step Right backward, replace forward onto Left

I always liked this song, and I think this version from the Rosemary Clooney Songbook

is great and wanted to do a dance the moment I heard it. It's been hard keeping it

'under wraps' so long, so I hope the wait was worth it. I made the dance as easy as

possible to hopefully enable dancers to have some fun with it and not have to think

too hard about what is

happening next .

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