Chicken Dance - Dance Steps

Dance Steps

The "Chicken Dance" song is accompanied by a dance requiring a group of people, and it goes as follows:

  • At the start of the music, shape a chicken beak with your hands. Open and close them four times, during the first four beats of the music.
  • Make chicken wings with your arms. Flap your wings four times, during the next four beats of the music.
  • Make a chicken's tail feathers with your arms and hands. Wiggle downwards during the next four beats of the music.
  • Clap four times during the next four beats of the music while rising to your feet.
  • Repeat this process four times.
  • At the bridge, hold your arms straight, in imitation of an aeroplane. All dancers spin around the room in "flight" until the bridge ends.
  • (Alternately: At the bridge, link arms with the nearest person, turn right eight steps, switch arms and turn left eight steps, then repeat until the bridge ends)
  • (Alternatively: Assume close position with partner and polka until bridge ends.)
  • The dance repeats, progressively getting faster and faster, until the music stops.

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