Total Eclipse of the Heart by Westlife

Coaching Notes:

Pre-Teach: No
Focus: External
Purpose: To encourage singing a long and to warm up the body

Please do not use the original song, use the Westlife version, it’s too intense and it won’t reflect the moves.

First move: turn-around and walk slow. Get your participants to walk slowly and when they sing turn around, have them to turn around while they walk and walk on. Ask your participants to listen to the music and turn around whenever it comes on.

Second move, side-side-123. When the beat kicks in a bit, change into the side-side 123. Add lots of dramatic arms.
Encourage your people to sing along. Add a little drama to it. Really mean it when you sing and dance it.
Back to the slow part. They don’t sing the turn-around in that part. Still keep the slow walk and tell your participants to turn around when they want to.

Third move, turn-around (instead of the side-side) and a 123 and a side-side 123 (optional but cool). When the beat kicks in at 2:19, you can keep it as a side-side-123, OR you can amp it up into a “turn-around (instead of the side-side) and a 123 and a side-side 123”. Really dance it with your whole body, get into what they are singing and get that into your body. When they stop singing the turn around, it’s only side-side 123, they can keep turning it, it never hurts to change directions.

Back to the slow at the end. Turn around whenever you want to.
Great sing along, most people will know it.

Transitions:
0:00 Turn-around-slow-walk
0:48 side-side-123
1:36 Turn-around-slow-walk
2:19 turn-around-123-side-side 123
2:59 side-side-123
3:47 Turn-around-slow-walk