Bocephus

Music: Born to Boogie by Hank Williams, Jr. or Anyway the Wind Blows by Brother Phelps
Choreographer: Bill "Peanut" Rice, 2205 Concord Highway, Monroe, NC 28110; 704-225-9158
Position: Individual line dance-all dancers face same direction, heels together, hands on hips
Comment: This is the version danced at the Longbranch in Raleigh, North Carolina, (lessons started before 1991) and performed by the North Johnston High School Dance Club, Kenly, North Carolina, on The Nashville Network. Start on beat 17. Although this dance has 38 steps on the beat, which is not divided equally by 4 or 8, it does fit the music. You finish the pattern on the last major beat.

Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 by Ronald L. Still. Merida Business Group, 1413 Kenbrook Drive, Garner, NC 27529-4447; 919-772-2082. If the Subject is Dance Steps ... Volume I, Third Edition, January 1996. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.

Standard steps for gentleman and lady are identical.

1. Pivot on toes swinging heels apart

2. Pivot on toes returning heels to the starting position

3. Right toe steps and points to the right side-head looks right

4. Right foot close to left foot-look straight

5. Left toe steps and points to the left side-head looks left

6. Left foot close to right foot-look straight

7. Pivot on heels swinging toes apart

8. Pivot on heels returning toes to the starting position

9. Right foot step forward

10. Hop on right foot

11. Left foot step forward

12. Hop on left foot

Modified Jazz Box to the Left

13. Right foot step in front of left leg to the left

14. Left foot step backward

15. Right foot step to the right

16. Right foot hop and left knee raise until thigh is parallel to the floor

Modified Jazz Box to the Right

17. Left foot step in front of right leg to the right

18. Right foot step backward

19. Left foot step to the left

20. Left foot hop and right knee raise until thigh is parallel to the floor

21. Right foot step in front of left leg to the left

22. Left foot step backward

23. Hop on left foot

24. Swing right leg in a semicircle to the right and step backward

25. Hop on right foot

26. Swing left leg in a semicircle to the left and step backward

27. Hop on left foot

28. Swing right leg in a semicircle to the right and step backward

29. Right foot scoot forward

30. Left foot close to the right foot

31. Right foot stomp in place

32. Right foot stomp in place

33. Right heel touch forward

34. Right foot close to left foot

35. Right heel touch forward

36. Right foot crosses in front of left leg, below the knee, with the toes pointed down

37. Left foot pivots 1/4 turn CCW while the right foot kicks low to the right front (to the position that right and front would be after completing this 1/4 turn)

38. Right foot close to the left foot

Repeat Counts 1 to 38 until the end of song.

Option

On Counts 33 and 35 you may substitute a low forward kick with the right foot.

Historian's note: Dick and Geneva of D&G Enterprises, P.O. Box 802, Hayes, Virginia 23072-0802, began teaching this dance wherever they traveled with two additional steps after they attended a workshop at the Longbranch. Their additional steps are inserted between Counts 10 and 11 and make the dance 40 counts.

10a. Left foot step forward, crossing over right foot

10b. Right foot step in place (rock step)

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