Line Dance · Beginner

Boot Scootin' Boogie

A country floor-filler since 1992 and still played every single week.

Boot Scootin Boogie Line Dance Tutorial

We did not make this video — we found the clearest one and linked it. There is no single official version of most line dances, so we are filming the version taught on West Michigan floors with local instructors. Teach it here?

Level

BeginnerNo partner needed

Danced to

Boot Scootin' BoogieBrooks & Dunn

Structure

32 count4 walls

Choreographed by

Bill Bader in 1990

Choreographers own their work. We credit them by name and send you to their official step sheet rather than reprinting it. Official step sheet on CopperKnob

Why this one is in the library

Named a permanent DJ-setlist fixture across every source we checked.

The cheat sheet

What you are walking into

The one every DJ plays. Steady mid-tempo, more glide than stomp, and the floor fills without anyone announcing it.

What catches people out

There are a dozen versions of this dance. The room may not all be doing the same one — copy the majority, not your neighbour.

How to get through it

It is built on shuffles. If you can travel forward on a right-left-right, you already have most of it.

Moves it leans on

Grapevine Shuffle Heel Dig Scuff

These are ours, written for someone who has not danced it yet — not a step sheet. For exact counts, see the choreographer's sheet linked above, or come to a night and let someone teach you.

Go dance this week

We do not claim to know which night plays which song. What we do know is where country dancing happens — here are three of the region's nights, and the calendar has the rest.

Stomp
Verified

Wednesday · Grand Rapids