The Shoeleather Express
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Upcoming at The ED Center in Gloversvillle, NY
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Square Dance Tentative 2026 Schedule

April 9, 2026 You're Invited!:)
   Mainstream Square Dance Lessons
   6:30-9pm, Learn as you dance!

April 11, 2026 April Showers Dance 12-4:30pm
     Elaine & Dennis MS/Plus w/ Rounds Phase 2-4

 April 19, 2026 - Toni's 101st Birthday 12-4:30pm
     Elaine & Dennis MS/Plus W/ Rounds Phase 2-4

Come Dance w/ us at:
The 68th New England Square & Round Dance Convention: April 24 & 25, 2026
Boxboro Regency, 242 Adams Place, Boxborough, MA 01719  www.nesrdc.org

 May 2 Baby Day Dance- Share Your baby pictures
 May 17 Get Into The Groove Dance
 June 7  Ice Cream Dance
 July 11 National Blueberry Muffin Day Dance
 July 26 National Cowboy Day Dance
 Aug 8 Summertime Dance
 Aug 15 w/Mike Sikorsky
check out the rest of year at WheresTheDance.com
Search "schedules" The ShoeleatherExpress
You can also find a complete list on YouTube by clicking_Here
Cue sheets listed are for those not found on_Roundalab

added within last 12 months

Amsterdam Boogie, 2-Step, pdf cue sheet
When I Dance With You, 2-Step, pdf cue sheet
________Music
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2-Step

Af en Af

All My Ex's Live in Texas - George Strait

All That Jazz - Liza Minnelli

Amsterdam Boogie - Big Jay McNeely _ pdf cue sheet

Apple-Peaches-Pumpkin Pie Polka, rtf cue sheet

Be My Baby Tonight - John Michael Montgomery

Christmas is Just Around the Corner, rtf cue sheet

Hold Me

If I Didn't Have You (theme from "Monster Inc."), rtf cue sheet

Just Walking In The Rain - Johnny Ray

Kon Tiki - The Islanders

My Music - Loggins and Messina

Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox - Joe Diffie

Spaghetti Rag

Tennessee Saturday Night - Jack Scott, pdf cue sheet

When I Dance with You - Jeff Gonzales,pdf cue sheet
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________ includes Cues in separate channel

Winter Wonderland - The Andrew Sisters, 2+

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Waltz

Best of Life

Cattle Call - Riders in the Sky, rtf cue sheet

Dream Awhile

Eternally with Il Volo, pdf cue sheet

Miss the Mississippi and You - Crystal Gayle

The L Train - from "Shall We Dance"

Their Hearts are Dancing - The Forester Sisters

Today - John Denver, phase 4

Tonight - Barbara Mandrel, phase 3+

Watermark phase 4

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Jive

Boogie Time (Blue Finger Lou) - Ann Murray , 4+1

Boot Scootin' Boogie - Brooks & Dunn, Jive 4, pdf cue sheet

Brilliant Conversationalist - T. Graham Brown, 5

Can't Help It - Scooter Lee, Jive 4

Hooked On Swing - Larry Elgart & His Orchestra, 4

It's All Right - Jon Batiste, Jive 4, pdf cue sheet

Muchacha Kiss Kiss Bang - Alex Swings Oscar Sings! 5+

Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan, 4+, pdf cue sheet

Tennessee Saturday Night - Ella Mae Morse, 5+, pdf cue sheet

You've Got To See Mama Every Night - Georgia Gibb, 4+

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Mix Foxtrot & Jive

Anything But Love - Squirrel Nut Zippers, 3+

Moondance - Ross Mitchell Orchestra, 3+

On The Street Where You Live, 4
This page was last updated
1/ 31/ 2026
Two Step YouTube Playlist

01 - Forward 2-Step and Walk 2
02 - Forward & Back 2-Step with Rocks
03 - Side 2-Step and Side Touches
04 - Progressive Box, Box, Reverse Box
05 - Left Turning Box
06 - Broken Box
07 - Right Turning 2-Step
08 - Scissors Progressive
09 - Vine 4, Walk 2
10 - Face to Face and Back to Back
11 - Hitch 3 and Hitch 6
12 - Cut Backs and Forward Lock 4
13 - Basketball Turn
14 - Scissors Double and Wheel
15 - Circle Away and Together
16 - "Old Fashioned Way"   dance
17 - Scissors Thru, Twirl, "Cab Driver"  dance
18 - Traveling Box
19 - Lace
20 - ½ Box, Scissors Thru
21 - Open Vine 4
22 - Scoot
23 - "A Cup Of Your Sugar" dance
24 - "Tennessee Saturday Night" dance
25 - Lucky Wrap
26 - Fishtail
27 - Charleston
28 - Strolling Vine
29 - "Cincinnati Rag" teach & dance
30 - "Amsterdam Boogie" teach & dance
31 - "When I Dance With You" dance & teach
32 - Whaletail
33 - Circle Chase and
        "Meet Me Under The Mistletoe" dance & teach
34 - Roses for Elizabeth

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Jive YouTube Playlist

01 - Fallaway Rock, Turn Fallaway Rock
02 - Right to Left, Left to Right, Link Rock
03 - Change Hands Behind the Back
04 - Point Steps
05 - Forward Triples and Swivel 4
06 - Fallaway Throwaway and Throwaway
07 - Kick-Ball-Change
08 - "Night Train" dance
09 - Windmill
10 - "ABC Boogie" dance
11 - "Sweet Pea Lazy Swing" dance
13 - Pretzel
12 - Jive Walks, Step Tch & Chasse, Vine 8
14 - "You've Got To See Mama Every Night" dance
15 - Chicken Walks
16 - "Brilliant Conversationalist" dance
17 - Sailor Shuffles
18 - "Uptown" dance
19 - Spanish Arms
20 - American Spin
21 - Stop & Go
22 - "Calendar Girl" dance
23 - Shoulder Shove
24 - Triple Wheel
25 - "I'm Into Something Good" dance
26 - Sole Tap
27 - Miami Special
28 - Shuffling Door
29 - Traveling Sand Steps
30 - Glide to the Side and Continuous Chasses
31 - Stop & Go with Double Stop Action
32 - She Go He Go
33 - Link to Whip Turn & Link to Whip Throwaway
34 - Lindy Catch
35 - Catapult
36 - Mooch
37 - "Tennessee Saturday Night" phase 4+0+1
38 - "Tennessee Saturday Night" phase 5+0+2
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Waltz YouTube Playlist
01 - Box
02 - Left Turning Box
03 - Forward Waltz
04 - Vine 3 and Twirl Vine 3
05 - Balance Left & Right
06 - Maneuver
07 - Two Right Turns
08 - Waltz Away & Together
09 - Twist Vine 3
10 - Apart Point, Canter and Dip Back
11 - "The Pretty Paper Waltz" dance
12 - "Eternally with Il Volo" dance including
      __Wrap, Wheel, Unwrap to Tamara
      __Balance & Reverse Twirl, Interrupted Box
      __Thru-Side-Behind & Roll, Lace
      __Step Swing & Spin Manuver
13 - "Waltz of Love" dance instructions include
      __Trade Sides
      __Thru Twinkles
      __Hover to semi (phase 3)
14 - "Could I Have This Dance" including
      __Cross Wrap
      __Rock Thru & Recover
15 - "Waltzing with You" instructions include
      __Solo Turn in 6
      __2 Left Turns
      __Forward Wrap
      __Corte
16 - "Cavatina" dance instructions include
      __Forward Wrap
      __Hover
      __Drift Apart (for Thru Twinkles)
      __Spin Turn
17 - "The Touch of Your Hand" dance instruction
18 - "Their Hearts are Dancing"
      __Balance and Reverse Twirl
      __Sway, and Box Finish
19 - Whisk and Wing
20 - Diamond Turn
21 - Cross Hover
22 - Impetus to Semi, aka Open Impetus
23 - Chasse
24 - In & Out Runs
25 - "This Is Our Dance" dance instruction
26 - "Send Me Down to Tucson" dance instruction
      __Telemark to Semi
      __Natural Hover Fallaway
      __Slip Pivot to Banjo
27 - "Christmas at Our House" dance instruction
             Rumba figures - Fence Line and New Yorker
28 - "Alice Blue Gown" dance demo & teach
              phase III+2 - Telemark, Cross Pivot
​29 - Twinkles, Progressive Twinkles
30 - "Neapolitan Waltz" dance instruction

Round Dance Lessons on YouTube
Each Link below goes to a YouTube Playlist for that Rhythm
If you click on Two Step, you'll go to the Two Step Playlist on YouTube
 Each Playlist contains all the Lessons I've created so far
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Click on the YouTube link and Scroll down to Lesson 01
Proceed to the next lesson when you feel ready.
Two Step
Waltz
Cha Cha
Rumba
Jive
Tango
Foxtrot
Slow Two Step
Quickstep
Christmas Songs
Round Dance Demos on YouTube
Foxtrot YouTube Playlist

01 - Box & Left Turning Box
​02 - Progressive Box and Forward Run 2
03 - Whisk and Pickup or Maneuver
04 - Right Turns
05 - Left Turns
06 - Spin Turn & Box Finish
07 - Impetus to Semi
08 - Twinkles
09 - Telemark to Semi Close
​10 - Hover & Cross Hovers in dance "Side By Side"
11 - Spin Turn & Box Finish 
12 - Turn Left & Chasse, Back  Back/Lock  Back 
13 - Transition in dance "Side By Side"
14 - "Side By Side"  dance

​Quickstep

01 - Quarter Turn & Progressive Chassé
02 - Chassé Weave
​03 - "The Spider" dance & teach

Slow Two Step

01 - Basic, Twisty Basic, Lunge Basic
​02 - Underarm Turn & Reverse Underarm Turn
03 - Open Basic
​04 - Switches
05 - Sweetheart Wrap & Sweetheart Runs

We started these lesson videos during Covid for our dancers who couldn't come to the lessons. Our focus has been for beginners.

We will conform with Roundalab standards as best as we can. If any of these lessons is in conflict from your local cuer, then listen to your instructor. But please get back to us so the video can be corrected.

Doing the videos involves a lot of mental prep work. And preparing the video to go on YouTube takes far longer than actually doing the taping. We get nothing out of it except satisfaction from the comments and emails we receive.  We will continue to do more as time allows.

Elaine & I sincerely want to thank all of you for your support :-)