DESERT ROSE

CHOREOGRAPHER: The Girls (Maureen & Michelle)
COUNT: 32
TYPE: 4 Wall Line Dance
LEVEL: Intermediate
MUSIC: Desert Rose by Sting-113 bpm (32 count introduction) (CD: The Very Best Of Sting & The Police)

(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

1/2 TURN POINT, SHUFFLE, TOUCH FORWARD, TOUCH TOGETHER, TOUCH BACK, 1/2 TURN

10	Touch right forward and turn 1/2 left on ball of left (end with right touching back)
11&12	Shuffle forward right, left, right
13-14	Touch left forward, touch left beside right
15-16	Touch left back, turn 1/2 left and take weight onto left

SIDE-ROCK-CROSS, SIDE-ROCK-PRESS, STEP, 1/4 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, turn 1/4 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 1/4 TURN, BACK, BACK, 1/4 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, turn 1/4 left and step right slightly to right,
	press step forward on left
31-32&	Step right back, step left back,
	on ball of left turn 1/4 right sweeping right out into point
	(i.e.-count 1 of dance)

From: "pseudonym242" 

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