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Jan and Connie started Line dance some ourselves. Then dancers would learn from
12 years ago and Connie says: “We used to stepsheets and we used all kinds of music.
be ballroom dancers for a long time. It was This was a different and novel way of teaching
curiosity which took us to a Line dance club then.” Jan points out: “We had friends in the
one night.” At fi rst Jan, could not see the South who did similar things and we would
attraction. He says “It just did not seem to be often compare and share things.” The couple
for me at all.” But two weeks later, he joined do agree though that the most needed
the class. Connie reckons that “he loved it element and the one they always kept to
when he found out he could dance without was to have fun. As Jan says : “Learning new
me!”. It would be a year later that they both dances is one thing but enjoying yourself is
decided to start a club together after getting quite another.”
their dancing qualifi cations.
Rotterdam would be the setting for Connie
Connie remembers: “We wanted to do and Jan’s fi rst club and soon they would go
something different and Jan wanted to start from strength to strength in a very short
Dj-ing as well” time. More classes followed and more venues
too but after a few months, the couple had
Connie says: “At that time we were the only over 130 dancers to look after in total!
ones doing something different. We would
pick our own dances (a lot from Linedancer To day the scene in Holland is very different
Magazine) and we would translate them and because so many clubs have now started
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