Arguably, the best part about school dances is the dance floor. About half an hour in, the DJ starts playing the line dancing tunes, and it’s a rush to get a space to perform the steps. That is, if you know how to execute them.
If you don’t, line dancing club just made it easier to learn. The new club was founded by seniors Morgan Moeckly and Lydia Folks, who’d attended a 4 H trip in D.C. over the summer, where they honed their skills.
“There was a dance at the end of it and a lot of the dances were line dances,” Folks explained. “Me and Morgan just realized we like to line dance.”
The new club began as the best ideas do: a conversation at the lunch table.
“I was like wait, that sounds like such a good idea,” junior Anna Gordon-Ross said. She was sitting around a table with Moeckly and Folks, where talk of line dancing became an idea for a club.
Gordon-Ross learned to line dance early, by attending church dances and other camps. She took the role of vice-president, and attended the club fair with Moeckly.
Word about the new club got out fast.
“At the end of the club fair, we ended up having like 65 people in our GroupMe,” Folks said. It seemed like an immediate success. Those numbers though, Gordon-Ross explained, don’t always translate to real life.
“We have about 18 people that regularly show up,” she said.
As a junior, it’ll be her job to keep the club alive next year, after the current co-presidents graduate along with many current members who are seniors.
“We are going to hope we can get a bunch of underclassmen to join the club,” Gordon-Ross said. She and others did their best to spread the word at this year’s homecoming, encouraging students who couldn’t follow along with the dances to come learn.
“That’s always been our goal,” Gordon-Ross said. “So that at dances, people know what to do.”
The club meets every Tuesday after school. Moeckly is confident the club will continue to prosper.
“People seem to enjoy it,” Moeckly said. “It’s just a way for people to get active, but not like conditioning, or running. It’s a fun activity for people to get up and get moving.”
