How to Do The Jive Wing in Tap Dancing

Jive is an expression used to indicate jazz music or dancing to a particular kind of music, such as swing music, that was popular during World War II and after. To this day, people still use the expression as in, "Watch that person jive." The term can also refer to someone who is improvising dance steps. How this tap dance combination came to be known as the jive wing is anyone's guess.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Hop left and shuffle on your right ("a 8 and").

2. Hop on your left again ("a") and jab your right toe behind your left foot on the count of "1."

3. Step down on your right foot and shuffle on your left, hop on your right and jab your left toe behind your right foot. The count is "a 2 and a 3."

4. Step down on your left and scuffle on your right foot to the count of "a 4 and." A scuffle is a combination of a heel scuff and a shuffle, meaning that you scuff your heel to the front and do a back brush on the ball of your foot.

5. Step down on your right ("a") and jab your left toe behind your right foot ("5").

6. Put the steps together: hop shuffle hop toe jab; step shuffle hop toe jab; step scuffle step toe jab.