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Intermediate

Life's Essentials

Choreographed by Kevin Smith🇦🇺 & Maria Smith🇦🇺
Music: Food, Water, Shelter, Love by Adam Brand
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Created: 12/30/1999
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Step Sheet
32 Count, 4 Wall
9/27/2025
CROSS, STEP, BEHIND, & HEEL, & FORWARD, DOROTHY, ½ PIVOT
1-2-3&4
Cross/step right over left, step left to side, step right behind left, step left to side, right heel forward right diagonal
&
Step right next to left (moving towards right diagonal)
5-6&7
Step left forward, lock right behind left, step left forward, step forward right (Dorothy step)
8
½ pivot turn left (still a diagonal facing approx 8:00)
½ SHUFFLE TURN, STEP BACK, CROSS, & ½ TURN, STEP FORWARD, FULL TURN
1&2-3-4
½ shuffle turn left stepping right-left-right (facing front), step back left, step right across left
&5-6
Step back left, ½ turn right step forward right, step forward left
7&8
Full turn back over right shoulder step right-left-right
& SPLIT STEP, & SPLIT STEP, & OUT, & STEP FORWARD, ¾ TURN, STEP RIGHT-LEFT
&1-2
Take weight left, big step back right, drag left to right take weight left
&3-4
Take weight right, big step back left, drag right to left touch right next to left
&5&6
Step right to side, step left to side, & step right to center, step forward left
7-8
¾ turn left step forward right-left
ROCK, RETURN, 1 ¼ TURN, ¾ TURN, STEP & OUT FORWARD, & OUT BACK
1-2-3&4
Rock/step right over left, return weight left, 1 ¼ cha-cha turn right stepping right-left-right
Alternate step: rock, return ¼ turn right shuffle forward
5-6
Step forward left, right, ¾ turning right
&7
Step forward left, step out to side right
&8
Step back left, step back right to side
&
Take weight on left
REPEAT
TAG End of wall 6 (facing back wall finish count 32 crossing right over left)1-2-3-4&Tap right heel 4 times, & lift right foot off floor to start danceFinish You will be facing front wall at rock right over left, take weight left, 1 ¼ cha-cha turn right, turn 1 ¾ turn right stepping right-left-right-left