''Club Dance'' is a

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that aired on

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from April 1, 1991 to February 5, 1999 for a total of 1,848 episodes, with re-runs until June 28, 1999''Club Dance'' home page
by Gary Cox and Carol Cox, frequent participants of the showKristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold (2004) "A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music", ''

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'', {{ISBN, 1-57806-678-6 The show was filmed in

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set at a fictional "White Horse Cafe". The show was hosted by Shelley Mangrum, a former Miss Tennessee, and co-hosted by Phil Campbell. The cast consisted of enthusiastic unpaid local dancers and visiting professional dancers and dance groups from all over the

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, creating a unique atmosphere of mixing of styles and traditions. Within the limits of the script, the dancers were free to behave and respond to the music as if in a real dance venue. The show included a wide variety types of country dances

lead and follow In some types of partner dance, lead and follow are designations for the two dancers' roles in a dance pairing. The leader is responsible for guiding the couple and initiating transitions to different dance steps and, in improvised dances, for ch ...

partner dance Partner dances are dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of two partners, as opposed to individuals dancing alone or individually in a non-coordinated manner, and as opposed to groups of people dancing simultaneously in a ...

s, choreographed dances, and

line dance A line dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence of steps while arranged in one or more lines or rows. These lines usually face all in the same direction, or less commonly face each other.Knight, ...

s, as well as some others, most notably

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, which due its slotted style allowed for dancing between tables and in other confined spaces. The show was accompanied with the monthly newsletter ''Club Dance: Behind the Scenes''. It was produced by Knoxville-based CineTel Productions.

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Dance television shows 1991 American television series debuts 1999 American television series endings The Nashville Network original programming