MARATHON 2019

The Line Dance Marathon

May, 2019

Home from a great time in Raleigh! As always - the venue was fantastic! Decorations, staff & volunteers, the hotel, amazing attention to detail... just fantastic! Thank you to Scott & Jean for another great year!

Day 1 -

Darren Bailey - Something That You Want (with Amy Glass). Great cha cha!

Guillaume Richard - Fire On Fire by Romain Brasme & Marlon Ronkes. Very pretty dance!

Rebecca Lee - Calm Down Buddies (with Jose Miguel Belloque Vane, Roy Verdonk, JP Madge). This is fun!

Fred Whitehouse - Shot Of Tequila

The good news? I almost even remembered them all on the floor that night!!!

Day 2 -

Shane McKeever - Fall So Fast (Kerry Maus & Jo Thompson Szymanski). Had a lot of fun dancing this with Kerry right behind me and the Minnesota dancers surrounding me! Top of the favorite list for today!

Scott Blevins - Apple Juice (with Paul James). Great waltz!

Fred Whitehouse - I Can’t Stop. Phrased, funky, fun!

Maddison Glover - Get Wild (with Jo Thompson Szymanski). Right up there with the top of my favorites of the day!

Shane McKeever - Baby Madda. It might be labeled High Intermediate but it really is an easy dance - just a little “peppy” (not allowed to use the “f” word...)!

Choreography Comps - congratulations to the finalists: Rob Holley & Jason Takahashi! And more congratulations to Jason for winning the overall competition. Well done!

Day 3 -

I had such high expectations for Saturday’s classes... after the first 3, I was toast! LOL!

Shane McKeever - Reverse (with Jessica Devlin). OMG! How fun was this!!!

Scott Blevins - Boys (with Joey Warren). Easy intermediate. Great dance!

Scott Blevins - Down To The Roots (with Fred Whitehouse). I only had to do A twice. You’d think 32 counts could be done without much difficulty. Well, you’d be WRONG! So much work I need to do on this GREAT dance!!! LOVE it! And... this is the one that put me over the edge. After REVERSING and the going DOWN TO THE ROOTS, I hit my wall. There was absolutely nothing left! The true sign of an amazing event!

The ones I watched (attempted to learn from my chair!):

Darren Bailey - L.I.L.Y.

Fred Whitehouse - Life Is Worth Living

Darren Bailey - Gorgeous

The one I completely missed:

Shane McKeever - Burden

The ones that someone else attended since I couldn’t be in 2 places at the same time:

Rebecca Lee - Wonderland

Fred Whitehouse - Give Me Love

Guillaume Richard - The Show 

With earlier-than-we-wanted flights leaving on Sunday, no more classes for me. That’s OK. My students will be plenty exhausted with everything I bring back - and it’s only 6 weeks until FITS and we can do it all again!