New York Bus Stop

I always end up reconstructing line dances when I have a relevant gig coming up.  This time it's the Dance Flurry, where I will be teaching an entire session of disco line dances a month or so from now.

This is another short line dance, only twenty-four beats long.  There are many, many dances called some version of "Bus Stop" -- it seems every city or perhaps every club had its own special one.  This is not the only dance I have found that's called the New York Bus Stop!

The source for this particular version is Let's Disco, no author given, published in 1978 by K-tel International, Inc.  It's slightly unusual in that the quarter-turns at the end of each iteration are to the right rather than to the left and occur in mid-dance rather than at the end.

New York Bus Stop (24 beats)

1-2-3-4
Side touches to the right (touch R side, close, touch R side, close with weight)

5-6-7-8
Side touches to the left (touch L side, close, touch L side, close with weight)

9-10-11
Triangle touches (touch R forward, touch R side, touch R back)

12&13-14&15
Kick-ball-change (kick R forward, close R to left, step L in place; repeat)

16-17
Turn and touch (R forward, turning 1/4 to the right, touch L side to complete turn)

18-19-20
Cross, touch, cross (cross L over R, touch R side, cross R over L)

21-22-23-24
Back, back, cross, touch (back L, back R, cross L over R, touch R beside L)

Repeat as many times as needed for the music, making a quarter turn to the right at the end of each repetition.

Comments

[Gina Deibel]

Loved this one at The Flurry, thank you for a GREAT workshop! Can you remind me what song you used, if you remember? Might have been Play That Funky Music?

[Susan de Guardiola]

Quite likely it was; I know I used that for one of the dances that day. Have you seen the video done at the end of the session of some of the attendees repeating the Line Hustle without calls?

It's on YouTube here.

[Mike Taylor]

Another dance of interest. Like most 'line' dances from the 1960's and 1970's they followed/copy cat style, the dance routines performed by the singers/groups on stage...and all but a very few were only ONE WALL type.. ie they kept facing the audience at all times. If you listen to the song Doing the bus stop by the fatback back you will hear the calls... and nothing about doing a turn 1/4 or other wise. It was this version that appeared most popular even through to the late 1990's.