Line Dance · Absolute Beginner

Canadian Stomp

Simple, stompy, and a good early one to pick up.

Canadian Stomp 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

Absolute BeginnerCindy Hall & Ginny Smith’s sheet

Danced to

VariousVarious

Structure

40 count4 walls

This version choreographed by

Cindy Hall & Ginny Smith

Most standards have been choreographed several ways. The steps below follow this choreographer’s sheet; we credit them and link it rather than reprinting it. Their step sheet on CopperKnob

The cheat sheet

What you are walking into

Straightforward and stompy. A reliable floor-filler that does not ask much of you.

What catches people out

Different rooms do slightly different versions. Watch one full round before joining.

How to get through it

The stomps are the anchor. Land them and the rest follows.

Moves it leans on

Grapevine Jazz Box Heel Dig Stomp Walls

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.

How it goes

40 counts · 4 walls · Absolute beginner

Danced to Any Man of Mine. Lots of holds, which makes it forgiving.

1–8

Toe, heel, stomp, hold

Touch your right toe beside your left with the knee turned in, then your right heel forward with the toe turned out. Stomp the right down in front and hold. Mirror it on the left.

9–16

Again

Exactly the same eight counts a second time.

17–24

Walk back with stomps

Step back right and hold, back left and hold, then back right, back left, and two stomps with your right beside the left — no weight on them.

25–32

Vine right, vine left with a turn

Vine right and touch. Then vine left, turning a quarter left on the third count and scuffing your right through.

33–40

Jazz boxes

Cross your right over your left, step back on the left, step the right beside it, step the left beside that. Then do it again.

Written in our own words from the most-voted step sheet, so you can read it before you go. It is not the choreographer’s own notation — for that, see their sheet. Most of these dances have several versions; your room may do a different one.

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.

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Saturday · Spring Lake