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Intermediate

Desert Rose

Choreographed by Maureen Jones🇬🇧 & Michelle Jones🇬🇧
Music: Desert Rose by Sting
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Created: 12/30/1999
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32 Count, 4 Wall
9/27/2025
"Desert Rose" is the 'sister' dance to the Beginner dance "Oasis". At frequent points throughout the two dances steps and direction match exactly. Each wall starts and finishes in unison.
POINT, STEP, HEEL & HEEL & CROSS, POINT, CROSS, COASTER
1-2
Point right to right, step right beside left
3&
Touch left heel forward, step left beside right
4&5
Touch right heel diagonally forward right, step right beside left, step left across right
6-7
Point right to right, step right across left
8&9
Step left back, step right beside left, step left forward
½ TURN POINT, SHUFFLE, TOUCH FORWARD, TOUCH TOGETHER, TOUCH BACK, ½ TURN
10
Touch right forward and make ½ turn left on ball of left (end with right touching back)
11&12
Shuffle forward stepping on right, left, right
13-14
Touch left forward, touch left beside right
15-16
Touch left back, make ½ turn left and take weight onto left
SIDE-ROCK-CROSS, SIDE-ROCK-PRESS, STEP, ¼ TURN, TOUCH-HITCH-STEP
17&18
Rock right to right, recover on left, step right across left
19&20
Rock left to left, recover on right, press left forward
21-22
Recover back onto right, make ¼ turn left and step left to left
23&24
Touch right to left instep, hitch right knee, step right to right
&POINT, BEHIND, SIDE-TOGETHER-POINT, SAILOR ¼ TURN, BACK, BACK, ¼ TURN SWEEP
&25-26
Step left beside right, point right to right side, step right behind left
27&28
Step left to left, step right beside left, point left to left
29&30
Step left behind right, make ¼ turn left and step right slightly to right, press step forward on left
31-32&
Step right back, step left back, on ball of left make ¼ turn right sweeping right out into point (i.e.-count 1 of dance)
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