The old court house on Nicola avenue , in Merritt. File Photo Photo KDG

The Old Court House on Nicola Avenue , in Merritt.
File Photo:
 KDG

The love to dance studio is offering line dancing on Tuesday nights at 6:30 PM. This small rural communities population is suited to Line Dancing because of its cowboy culture.

Line Dancing  has only been offered for Community Rec 12 classes at the local high school as far as we can recall.  The desert in had a group of line dancing children at the height  of the Merritt Mountain Music Festival. We attended a Hearts and Stroke Society Convention in Kamloops some decades ago and we had instruction and practice in sessions at the convention. We took our new skills out on the town and tried them at a local NC in the evening. Kudos to the business located at the Old Courthouse Gallery, 2000 block Nicola Avenue in Merritt.

A line dance is a choreographed dance with a repeated sequence of steps in which a group of people dance in one or more lines or rows without regard for the gender of the individuals, all facing either each other or in the same direction, and executing the steps at the same time. Unlike in circle dancing, line dancers are not in physical contact with each other. source Wikipedia

 

On this Day: December 8th 1922

Northern Ireland leaves the Irish Free State.