Cajun jig

Cajun Jig, also called Cajun Two Step or Cajun One Step is the simplest one of all Cajun dances. It has only one basic step! However it is argued that Cajun Waltz is even simpler, amounting to just walking to 3/4 time music.

It is danced under fast Cajun music.

Despite the single kind of step, variations of the handhold combined with turns give the dance infinitely many dance moves.

In a remote way Cajun Jig is similar to Merengue.

Most of the dance is in any of double handholds, uncrossed (the right hand of one parther meets the left hand of another one and vice versa) or crossed (joined right hands over left or left over right).

Basic step

This is the way how to get the knack.

• Start marching one-two, one-two, left-right, left-right: in place, sideways, forward, backward. Now pretend that you have a nail in one boot that hurts your heel, so that this foot steps on a toe, and you march in a limping way. This limping also gives you this slight bob-bob-bobbing up and down. It doesn't matter which foot limps; you may freely switch during the dance: the partner will probably not notice. When stepping on a toe, you push a little bit up on count "One" and on "Two" simply drop onto the second, flat, foot.

Using this step and holding each other's hands all the time, you may readily go in and out of cuddle (sweetheart), (hammerlock), tie pretzels, turn inside out from face-to-face to back-to-back, or just simply walk around each other for a change in any of dance positions you happen to stuck in.