Line dance Guinness record on Romantic Coastline

 „Longest single line of dancers”

LINE-DANCE  is a dance style based on specific choreography, where a certain group of people, regardless of gender or age, perform repeated step cycles in one or more lines. All dancers face the same direction at the same time and do the same steps at the same time. (Wikipedia 12.12.2023)

There are thousands of line dances all over the world: both simple and quickly learned as well as very complex, which require dance skills and physical education to learn. Thus, line-dancing provides an opportunity to dance for both young and old, beginners and more advanced enthusiasts.

The birthday of Estonian line dance is considered to be 27.10.1997, when the first public line dance lesson was held under the leadership of Kaie Seger at the Guitar Safari pub in Tallinn. From that date began the so-called story of Estonian line dance, which has now grown quite colorful – festivals since 1999, in addition to numerous enthusiasts in almost every corner of Estonia, participation in larger and smaller local and international competitions. And …. Guinness Record!

The most powerful culmination of Estonian line dance took place on June 14, 2008, when the official Guinness Record attempt in the category “Longest single dance line” was held as part of the Estonian IX Line Dance Festival.

Defying the wind and rain, a total of 2,354 people set out to break the record in the 3.7 km long dance line.

The “Toe Dance” was danced as a record dance, for which the University of Technology’s Academic Men’s Choir had the song “One country song” created especially for the country festival, the witty words were by Laur Lomper and the music by Peeter Perens. A nine and a half minute version of the song was edited according to the requirements of the record.

In 2006, there were 1,246 people in the first Guinness record dance line in Pärnu County, but this record was surpassed by the Canadians in November of the same year, and this Estonian record attempt was not officially confirmed that year.

Kaie Seger received the official personalized “Guinness World Records 2012” book, on page 215 there is an entry about the dance record set by Estonians in 2008.

Both the gorgeous book with clang covers and the beautiful framed official certificate of the Guinness record are located in the Lindi Library and await visitors and admirers there!