Rockabilly (JIVE) Stroll

TITLE: The Rockabilly Stroll (A.K.A. JIVE STROLL)
STYLE: Swing, Jive & Rockabilly
LEVEL: 2
COUNT: 22 Count, 4 Wall

CHOREOGRAPHER: unknown
YEAR: TBA
MUSIC: here are three popular tunes this is danced to:
Who Said Shorty Wasn’t Coming Back by Lucky Millinder,
Barefooting by The Ray Collin’s Hot Club
Stroll Molls by The Lincolns,

This dance was created by a London dance teacher in the early 1980’s, it was created as a dance for the ‘Rockin’ scene of the time as an alternative to the rather ‘square’ original 1950’s stroll (see the ‘party’ scene in the film ‘The Wanderers’ for an example of the original).

This line dance has been growing in popularity over the past 2 decades (2013 – 2023). In the Swing and Boogie Woogie world, it’s the GO TO line dance in EUROPE especially in ITALY & GERMANY

PART I. (SIDE, KICK, SIDE, KICK,SIDE, KICK)
1-2 STEP R, KICK L
3-4 STEP L, KICK R
5-6 STEP R, KICK L

PART II. (CROSS LEFT, CROSS RIGHT)
1-4 STEP L, CROSS R, OPEN L, KICK R
5-8 STEP R, CROSS L, OPEN R, KICK L

PART III. (BACK, KICK, BACK. KICK)
1-4 STEP L, KICK R, STEP R, KICK L

PART IV (FORWARD, CROSS, FORWARD, 1/4 L TURN)
5-8 STEP L, CROSS R, STEP L, PIVOT making 1/4 L Turn

REPEAT DANCE.