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MADE IN JAPAN

DANCE NUMBER 3 IN THE BEGINNER SERIES

July 05

SONG:          Made In Japan by Buck Owens

               Also available on Jan's cd Dances For Beginners Volume 2

               See web site below for further information

CHOREOGRAPHER: Jan Wyllie, 4 Pebble Court, Torquay, Hervey Bay, 4655 Qld., Australia

               Email: janwyllie@iinet.net.au   

               Web Site: http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~janwyllie/

DANCE:         32 counts, Single wall, 120 bpm, Beginner,

               Start on vocals on 'transistor' NO TAGS OR RESTARTS

STEPS                     PATTERN OF DANCE

Vine Right, Hitch, Vine Left, Hitch

1,2,3,4  Vine right R,L,R  Hitch L

5,6,7,8  Vine left L,R,L, Hitch R

Vine Back, Hitch, Vine Fwd, Scuff

9,10,11,12  Vine back R,L,R, Hitch L

13,14,15,16 Vine fwd L,R,L, Scuff R

Rocking Chair, Hold, Rocking Chair Hold

17,18   Rock/step fwd on R, Rock back on L

19,20   Step back on R, Hold

21,22   Rock/step back on L, Rock fwd on R

23,24   Step fwd on L, Hold

Rocking Chair, Hold, Rocking Chair, Stomp Up

25,26   Rock/step fwd on R, Rock back on L

27,28   Step back on R, Hold

29,30   Rock/step back on L, Rock fwd on R

31,32   Step fwd on L, Stomp R beside L (keep wt on L)

This dance teaches a rocking chair step. And there's practice for vines

I have found a rock step is hard  for beginners to learn but once they

master this dance  it will not be a problem. .

The song is from the past when all the cheap imports came from Japan .

If it had 'made in Japan' stamped on it then we were usually a little sceptical

of it, and sometimes justifiably so, but that's certainly not the case today.

Things have changed in Japan…..wish their taste in fish would too!!

S'pose you know that a whale is NOT a  fish. It's a mammal, just like you

and me. That means it's warm blooded, has a constitution just like us and

gives  birth to babies in the same painful way that we do.  I heard a Japanese

business man saying that whales are just large pilchards…...NOT TRUE!

Don't know what YOU think about it all, but I wonder what that same man

would say if someone wanted to eat him and his family because they

considered them to be just big snakes …..or something like that!

Food for thought???  Well, don't think TOO hard about it all because you might

realise that little calves and baby lambs AND their parents are also mammals..

And then you might start to wonder what was so wrong with cannibalism!!!

See you on the floor sometime………. Jan