Rock Around the Clock

ARTIST: Bill Haley
CHOREO: Mary Smith, Virginia
Sequence:  Wait 16 beats/A/B/Break/A/B/Break/A/End


PART A
MJ TWIST                                                   DS   DS(xib)  RS  STEP(xib)   RS   DS DT TWIST(left)  TWIST(right) UP
                           L  R     LR L       RL R  L  both     both      L
                           &1 &2    &3 4       &5 &6 &   7         &       8

CHAIN LEFT & RIGHT         DS RS RS RS    DS RS RS RS
                           L  RL RL RL    R  LR LR LR
                           &1 &2 &3 &4    &5 &6 &7 &8

ROCK THE CLOCK             DS DS SK HOP RS  DS DS RS RS
                           L  R  L  R   LR  L  R  LR LR
                           &1 &2 e  3   &4  &5 &6 &7 &8


PART B
CHARLESTONS(2)                                   DS RS(if)  TOE- HEEL RS(ib)    DS RS(if)  TOE- HEEL RS(ib)
                                                                       L    RL        R       R        LR           L    RL        R       R        LR

TURKEY STEP(2)                                       HEEL FLAP STEP(xib)  DS  RS   HEEL FLAP STEP(xib)  DS  RS
                                                                        L        L          R                 L     RL    R        R          L                 R   LR
                                                                        1         &        2                  &3 &4    5         &         6                &7 &8

ROCK THE CLOCK             DS DS SK HOP RS  DS DS RS RS
                           L  R  L  R   LR  L  R  LR LR
                           &1 &2 e  3   &4  &5 &6 &7 &8


BREAK
SWIVELS                                                     DS  THEN SWIVEL LEFT AND RIGHT

POTHOLES(2)                                            DT IN OUT UP DT IN OUT UP
                                                                        L     Both     R   R      Both     L
                                                                        &   1    &     2    &    3     &   4

FANCY DOUBLE                                        DS DS RS RS
                                                                        L    R    LR LR

HEEL TURN                                                 DS HS HS HS   (turn 360° left)
                                                                        L    RL RL RL

JOEY                                                             DS BA(xib)  BA(os)  BA(os)  BA(xib)  BA(os)  ST
                                                                        R    L             R            L            R             L            R
                                                                        &1 &            2             &           3             &           4


END
                                                                        CLAP HANDS THREE (3) TIMES

                                                                        HOP HEEL  FLAP  STEP(xib)
                                                                        L        R         R          L
                                                                        1         e          &         2


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