Line Dance · Beginner

Fancy Like

Short, catchy, and half the room already learned it online.

"FANCY LIKE" DANCE · Walker Hayes · TikTok (BEGINNER DANCE…

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

BeginnerTerri Martin’s sheet

Danced to

Fancy LikeWalker Hayes

Structure

28 count4 walls

This version choreographed by

Terri Martin

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

Short, bouncy and everywhere. If you have seen one line dance on a phone, it was probably this one.

What catches people out

The TikTok version and the floor version differ slightly. The room's version wins.

How to get through it

Genuinely one of the quickest to pick up. Two watches of the tutorial is usually enough.

Moves it leans on

Coaster Step Kick Ball Change Toe Touch Scissor Step Hip Bump

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

28 counts · 4 walls · Beginner

Sixteen count intro. One restart on wall 3, and a four-count tag after walls 2, 5 and 7 — four quarter turns to the right, walking all the way round.

1–8

Step touch, diagonal back, both ways

Step right and touch your left in, step left and touch your right in. Two small steps back on the diagonal. Then the same pattern starting left.

9–16

Cross back side, rocking chair, walks

Cross your right over, step back left, step right out. Same starting left. Then a rocking chair, then two walks forward crossing slightly.

17–24

Rock back, coaster, sways, shuffle

Rock forward right, recover, big step back. Coaster step. Turn a quarter right and sway right, then left — exaggerate these. Then a heel-to-toe shuffle right.

25–28

Cross rock and out

Cross your left over the right, recover, step left out, cross your right over, step left out.

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.

Stomp
Verified

Wednesday · Grand Rapids