Straight To My Heart is a 32 count, 4 wall, improver level line dance choreographed by Heather Barton & Mikael Molsa. It’s a great little dance which I was fortunate enough to learn from the choreographers themselves whilst at World Dance Masters in Blackpool – July 2022

Here’s a step by step tutorial and below that you will find a demo video and practice video with instruction and music.

Here’s the practice & demo video


Step Sheet

Starting point: At the vocals, at about 0:08.

Ending: The dance ends on wall 13 (you’ll start the front wall for the 3rd time). On that wall, dance normally until the counts 30-32. Instead of doing the normal behind-side-forward –pattern, turn ¼ to right with it. This way you get to finish the dance facing the front wall.

½ LEFT TURNING PIVOT, ½ LEFT TURNING SHUFFLE BACK, BIG STEP BACK, HOLD, SMALL HOPS
1-2 Step right forward, turn ½ to left (now facing 6:00)
3&4 Turn ¼ to right and step right to right side, step left next to right, turn ¼ to right and step right to right side (now facing 12:00)
5-6 Take a big step back with your left foot, slide right next to left
7&8& Hop right to right side, touch left next to right, hop left to left side, touch right next to left

SIDE ROCK, ¼ LEFT TURNING SAILOR STEP, STEP BACK & SWEEP, BACK ROCK
1-2 Rock right to right side, recover weight back to left
3&4 Step right behind left, turn ¼ to left and step left next to right, step right to right diagonal (now facing 9:00)
5-6 Step left back and sweep right from front to back, finish the sweep from front to back
7-8 Rock right back, recover weight back to left

KICK BALL TOUCH, SYNCOPATED WEAVE WITH HOLDS, ¼ RIGHT TURNING ROCK STEP
1&2 Kick right forward, step right next to left, touch left to left side
3-4 Step left across right, hold
&5-6 Step right to right side, step left behind right, hold
&7-8 Turn ¼ to right and step right forward, rock left forward, recover weight back to right

SHUFFLE BACK, ½ RIGHT TURNING MILITARY TURN, ¼ RIGHT TURNING ROCK STEP, BEHIND, SIDE, FORWARD
1&2 Step left back, step right next to left, step left back
3-4 Touch right toe back, turn ½ to right and transfer weight to right foot
5-6 Turn ¼ to right and rock left to left side, recover weight back to right
7&8 Step left behind right, step right to right side, step left forward

REPEAT