Zydeco Dance Steps / Floating Slide

You will see this more if you visit Louisiana or Texas, it is done in the open position, and like most open position moves it can be done on your own or if your partner does it at the same time it can look and feel kind of cool. If you want to try this at first while keeping a hold of your partners hand, then once your comfortable you can start letting go of your partners hand on the 1st beat of music, then picking it up again about the 5th beat of music.

Lead: 1st beat - Step onto left foot 2nd beat - Tap right foot 3rd beat - Places his right foot next to his left foot and steps on it and pushes off it to start moving to the left 4th beat - Steps to the left a couple feet with his left foot and dragging his right foot (the floating look) 5th beat - step onto your right foot 6th beat - tap with your left foot 7th beat - step onto your left foot and push off it and start stepping to the right a few feet 8th beat - step onto your right foot and drag your left foot to the right. (the floating look)

Follow: 1st beat - Step onto right foot 2nd beat - Tap left foot 3rd beat - Places her left foot next to her right foot and steps on it and pushes off it to start moving to the right 4th beat - Steps to the right a couple feet with her right foot and dragging her left foot (the floating look) 5th beat - step onto your left foot 6th beat - tap with your right foot 7th beat - step onto your right foot and push off it and start stepping to the left a few feet 8th beat - step onto your left foot and drag your right foot to the left. (the floating look)

Just because the words "Lead" and "Follow" are used this is an open position move and often done with a hand toss so there really is no "leading" involved. Either partner in the open position can start and stop this as wanted but it is normally done as an embellishment and not as the normal zydeco step in the open position.