Introducing the Steppers Flow Chicago Style Stepping Online School

Have you never heard of Stepping but it sounds interesting and you want to know more?

Are you a stepper who wants your non-stepping friends or family to get into it?

Do you know people who step, but you feel like it's not convenient to get into or you don't know where to start?

Are you a stepper who wants a comprehensive ever-growing resource to help improve your stepping?

This website is designed to be that resource that you've been looking for.

Why Sign up Now?

Why wait? Join our membership and receive new content every week for years to come. Also participate in a private online community like other social media platforms, but just for paying members and is housed on this site. You will learn, express yourself, and be entertained in a safe space free from trolls, ads and algorithms.

Membership Course

If you join the paid membership, with your subscription you get new pre-recorded lessons every week. The list of lessons will continue to grow.

Start from the absolute beginning with the Foundation lessons and progress through Levels II - VII and beyond.

It is possible to join the membership with advanced access to any Level with custom offer requests

Online Community

Participate in the online community's Q&A, discussions, virtual meetups and challenges.

This is a great supplement to the courses. It allows interactivity between you and the instructor and the other members.

Even if you are not currently taking a course you can still get the benefits of paid membership with a subscription to the online community by itself.

Advanced Access

You will get access to 1 or 2 lessons per week. If you want a head start with access to more lessons up front fill out the Custom Offer Request form to build your own offer and receive a quote.

Foundation & Lesson Levels

At the Foundation and lower levels start from the very beginning. We leave no stone unturned. You will cover how to place your feet, position your hands and body, counting, musicality, lane control, basic turns and moves.

Then in the higher levels you will move to more very common concepts and moves that are used. You also are given tools to start your own creativity. Here you will get more moves and be encouraged to start mixing and matching what you've learned to create a more varied and dynamic dance. Many of these moves would be taught in intermediate classes across the country.

Themed Course

Here we do even more advanced moves and create cool combinations by layering moves you've already learned.

Many of these lessons could be found in in-person intermediate-advanced workshops, group classes or private lessons around the country.

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Annual Membership (Content & Community)

This membership starts at the very beginning for absolute beginners and continues to build to higher levels with new material every week indefinitely. You will have continued access to the online community for additional learning and socializing opportunities. And you will be afforded special offers and discounts for future premium products and activities.

$249.00 USD every year

Monthly Membership (Content & Community)

$24.99 USD every month

Steppers Flow Teacher Program

This program is aspiring stepping instructors and group leaders who want to start a stepping community in their local area anywhere around the world. By being the first in your community you have the opportunity to build a lifestyle that is healthy, fun and exciting for many people in your area and make money while you do it. Benefits - Get all of Foundation I (42 lessons) upfront and a growing list of one new lesson per week will be released to you. Currently there are more than 160 lessons in the library. - Invitation to participate in the Affiliate program. You can sell the membership to interested people who want to be students of Stepping for a 30% commission. You want everyone around you to become members including your students, so there will be more people in your community more quickly. - Access to the private Teachers-Only circle within our private online Steppers Flow community. Here you will receive support from Ernest and other Steppers Flow teachers around the world - Ability to start teaching classes or hosting practices/meetups of stepping enthusiasts in your local community when you feel you are ready, but until then you can sell the membership to everyone you think would be interested even if they live in another country. - Help in identifying good stepping music - Ability to organize visiting instructor workshops with Ernest - Ability to buy Steppers Flow merchandise (when available)

$49.99 USD every month

Membership Lessons

Foundation Lessons

(Available Immediately at Sign-up)

8-Count Basic (Individual)

The Ginga (Individual)

8 Count Basic (Partner)

Follower's Linear Basic and Leader's Stride (Individual)

Basic In Place (Individual)

Linear Basic (Partner Work)

Double Push (Individual)

Double Push (Partner Work)

Half Turn (Individual)

Yin Yang & Side Stride (Individual) Leaders Only

Half Turn (Partner)

Half Left (Individual)

Half Left (Partner)

Half Right (Individual)

Half Right aka Push Pull (Partner)

Default Initial Address

Right Pocket & Restart

Underarm Send Out

Left Turn (Individual)

Left Turn (Partner)

Extended Right (Individual)

Extended Right (Partner)

Right Turn (Individual)

Right Turn (Partner)

(One or Two of the following Lessons wil be made available weekly.)

Level II Lessons

678 Turn (Individual)

678 Turn (Partner)

Flow Basic (Partner)

Walkaround Turn (Individual)

Walkaround Turn (Partner)

Left Spin (Individual)

Left Spin (Partner)

Shimmy

Extended Left (Individual)

Extended Left (Partner)

Lane Control

Roll Out Roll Back (Individual)

Roll Out Roll Back (Partner)

Double Left Turn (Individual)

Double Left Turn (Partner)

Demo of a Few Turns

Hand Positions

Half Turn Exchange

Level III

Leading Various Body Parts

Stealing Beats

Adding Beats

Kickstand (Individual)

Kickstand (partner)

Body Positions

Titanic (Individual)

Titanic (Partner Work)

She Goes He Goes

Push Pull Waist Wrap

Golden Gate

Leader's 2-step and 3-step

Level IV

Flap Jack

Forward Half Turn

Whip Turn

Half Turn with Hook Turn

Double Dutch

Half Turn Summary

Vary Your Dance Same Move Away vs Toward The Leader

Walk Up 7 8 Linear Basic

Forward Cross 7 8

Leader's Left Turn on 4

Leader's Half Turn

Leader's Half Left on 4

Leader's Walk Around Turn

Double left Turn on man's foot

Level V

Duck Walk

Duck Walk with a right turn

Duck Walk with Double Turn (Actually 1.5 Turns)

Short Send Off

Box Step

Slip and Slide

Hold on 1

Hold on 1 and 4

Shimmy Hold on 4

Kick Ball Change

Ginga Fake On 5

Level VI

Pitty Pat

Pitty Pat Interuptions

Pitty Pat From the 678 Turn

The Dance Master

Fred Astaire

Lateral

Butterfly

Stiff Arm

Double Slide Back (Initial Address)

Embrace Pause on 1 and 4

Initial Address 1-2 Stomp

Double Right Cross

Level VII

The 1-2 Basic

The Bounce Basic

The 1-2 Bounce Basic

Varying Timing Explanation

Scoot 7 8

Side to Side 7 8

Self Send-Out Exchange

Carry Around 360

Carry Around 1.5

Carousel

Double right Turn (over 2 beats)

Right Turn on 4

And 7 8 Stomp & Grapevine

Vaiven

Traveling Carry Around

Right Turn & Go

Turn and Go Combos and More w/ Genevieve

left Spin and Go (Genevieve)

Extended Right and Go (Genevieve)

Double Spin and Go (Genevieve)

Right Turn on 4 and Go Roll Out Roll Back (Genevieve)

Linear Fake Extended Right (Genevieve)

Extended Right Reverse (Genevieve)

Demo w/ Genevieve

Hammer Locks w/ Sheila

Half Turn Hammer Lock (Sheila)

Extended Right Hammerlock (Sheila)

Back Pass Hammerlock (Sheila)

2-Handed Double Right Hammerlock (Sheila)

2-Hand Single Right Turn Hammerlock (also with a hair comb) (Sheila)

One Hand Double Right Turn Hammerlock (Sheila)

Normal Hand Hammerlock 678 Turn (Sheila)

2-Hand Wrap to Hammerlock (Sheila)

678 Turn Combos w/ MsV

Push Pull w/ 678 Turn (MsV)

Send Out Roll Back (MsV)

Half Left w/678 (MsV)

Lateral w/678 (MsV)

Right Turn and Go with 678 turn (MsV)

Extended Right 678 Turn (MsV)

Dribble Combos and more w/ Felicia

Dribble (Felicia)

Behind the Back Dribble Wrap (Felicia)

Ginga Dribble (Felicia)

Hammerlock Turn back (Felicia)

Send out Yo Yo (Felicia)

Butterfly Turn back (Felicia)

Shimmy Combos and more w/ MsV

Sway Back (MsV)

Hip Side Shimmy (MsV)

Breakout (MsV)

One Arm Side Shimmy (MsV)

Repeated 7 8 Turns (MsV)

Lasso, Matador and Dip w/ Yolanda

Lasso Interrupt into left Cape (Yolanda)

Lasso Interrupt Double Right Turn (Yolanda)

Lasso Interrupt Personal Turn (Yolanda)

Matador Combo (Yolanda)

Dip (Yolanda)

Intro to The Get Down and more w/ Teresa

Behind the Back Toss (Teresa)

Get Down Part 1 (w/ Quarter Turn) (Teresa)

Get Down Part 2 (Kick Lunge) (Teresa)

Bicycle 78's (Teresa)

Half Turn w/ personal turn (Teresa)

Warm up with Teresa

Arm-in-Arm Moves and more w/ Yolanda

Barrel Roll 2-Hands Overhead (Yolanda)

Hair Comb Push Pull (Yolanda)

Linear Arm-in-Arm (Yolanda)

Arm in Arm Carry-arounds (Yolanda)

Arm in Arm Carry-around Variation 2 (Yolanda)

Roll Out Roll Back Combos w/ MsV

Free Hand Turn RORB (MsV)

Round the Corner RORB (MsV)

Right Arm Hook RORB (MsV)

Roll Out Roll Back w/678 (MsV)

Demo w/ Ms V

Pretzel Combos and more w/ Yolanda

Free Hand double left turn (Yolanda)

Fred Astaire Toss (Yolanda)

Pretzel (Yolanda)

Pretzel w/ Double Left Turn (Yolanda)

Pretzel w/ Roll Out Roll Back (Yolanda)

6-Count vs 8-Count and More w/ Cheena

8-Count vs 6-Count/Bop (Cheena 8-Count)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Cross Over Pause on 4 (Cheena 8-Count)

Open Door Move (Cheena 8-Count)

Initial Address Walk (Cheena 8-Count)

Washing Machine (Cheena 8-Count)

Warmup w/ Cheena (Cheena 8-Count)

Intro to Walking and more w/ Yolanda

Traveling While Stepping (Yolanda)

Walking Part 1 (Yolanda)

Walking Part 2 (Yolanda)

Prolonged Initial Address (Yolanda)

Transition Between Stepping & Walking Demo (Yolanda)

Bonus moves w/ Yolanda & Genevieve

Butterfly Duck Walk (Yolanda)

Tornado Turn (Genevieve)

Fake 3 Sway Back (Genevieve)