Line Dancing is a set of steps set against Country & Western music. The steps involve listening to someone who shouts out the moves for the line dancer to repeat. Moves consist of turns, taps, shuffles, side steps and hand and shoulder movements.

What we do today evolved from the old "Contra" dances that were very popular in the New England States from the early 1800s. Contra style dances are still popular but in a slightly different form. In the 1800s two lines would form, men on one side, women on the other. The partners would join between the two lines and generally do their own routine down the middle. When they reached the end of the lines, they parted and moved back into their respective lines and the next couple would begin. The "Stroll" from back in the 1940s is a good example of this style of dance. If you saw the movie "Grease," you saw the "Stroll" being done by John Travolta.

In the 1970s, the form of Line Dance we do today was born. "Four Corners" was the second oldest line dance of this style. The "J.R. Hustle" dating back to 1980 & "The Traveling Four Corners" were choreographed by a gal from Texas by the name of Jimmie Ruth White. The Traveling Four Corners is (in it's original form), a quad dance (square) but choreographed in the general concept of the Line Dance.

Line dancing is almost always set to country and western music with the exception of some modern day interpretations which sound like more quick and contemporary than the standard style. This modernisation is an attempt to bring in a younger generation of line dancers.