How to Line Dance to Cotton Eye Joe | Line Dancing

- - «Hi, my name is Robert Royston. I'm a five time world champion of country dance, working with artists like Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley. I really hope that you learn how to line dance and experience what it's like to move to America's music, and that's country music. So, one of the dances that you must learn, and it's really called round dancing, what we're doing, what we're about to do, because it goes in a circle but it's a set piece of choreography, a lot like line dancing. But, no matter where you go in the United States, if you're going to a place that does line dancing, they're probably going to do the Cotton Eyed Joe. The Cotton Eyed Joe is a dance that you can do with a partner, you could have somebody alongside you, or you can do it by yourself, or you can do it in rows of people. Sometimes you'll have rows of eight or nine people, all shoulders around each other, doing the Cotton Eyed Joe. Cotton Eyed Joe has two variations that I'll show you. One is stomp, just a stomp stomp. Kick the same foot back up with the triple step, triple step. Then, same thing with the other foot. Stomp, kick, triple step. Stomp, kick, triple step. Stomp, kick, triple step. Yeah, so that goes one, two, a three and four. Five, six, a seven and eight. One, two, a three and four. Five, six, a seven and eight. The variation, depending on the region you are in, to that, is that instead of a stomp, they do a touch. They go touch across, touch, kick...