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COVER STORY First Night 2000: A sampler Wanted: two left feet     MORE INFORMATION Fri. 7:30-9:30 p.m., 9:30-11 p.m.; Sat. 7:30-9:30 p.m., 9:30-11 p.m. Hynes: Hall A Julie Kaufmann Dancin' On First Night two years ago, at Julie Kaufmann's country-and-Western line-dancing extravaganza, the dance leader cued up a nice, romantic slow dance, and looked out over the 200 people who had been stomping and scuffing and kicking on the floor of the Hynes Convention Center. "All right," Kaufmann told them. "It's New Year's Eve. It's time to get cozy with your partner." The dancers cleared the floor. "Only four couples danced!" she recalls. "I went right back to some upbeat Garth Brooks." Whether you're looking to rumba or swing, you'll find it at one of the Millennium Dance Parties at the Hynes Friday and Saturday night. Kaufmann specializes in a more down-home kind of dancing, which she says anyone and everyone can do. "We have seven or eight people who come together, or parents with their little kids. The ones too little to follow the dance just bounce to the music," says Kaufmann. The best thing about the dances she offers, she says, is that they're easy. "We teach the dance slowly, then at full speed," Kaufmann says. "You don't have to know anything before you come. And one fun thing is that the more mistakes you make, the more you laugh. If you turn one way and everyone else turns the other, we all laugh and you turn around and keep going." She keeps the rhythm upbeat and contemporary. "This is not your father's country music," Kaufmann warns. "It's not the twangy, 'My Wife Ran Off With My Cellmate' kind of song. We've got Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, the Dixie Chicks. We even have line dances done to non-country, like Enrique Iglesias or 'Mambo No. 5' by Lou Bega." - Cate McQuaid Previous page | Next page

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