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Clog dancing is a form of step dance characterised by the wearing of inflexible, wooden soled clogs. Clog dancing developed into differing intricate forms both in Wales and also in the North of England. Welsh clog dancing mainly originates from various slate mines where workers would compete against each other during work breaks. [1]
Traditional dancing in the Netherlands is often called "Folkloristisch", sometimes "Boerendansen" ("farmer-dancing") or "Klompendansen" (clog dancing). [1] Wooden shoes are worn as an essential part of the traditional costume for Dutch clogging, or klompendanskunst. Clogs for dancing are made lighter than the traditional 700-year-old design ...
Clogging, buck dancing, or flatfoot dancing [1] is a type of folk dance practiced in the United States, in which the dancer's footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm.
Clogs are also used in several different styles of dance, where an important feature is the sound they produce against the floor. Clog dancing is one of the fundamental roots of tap dancing , but with tap shoes the taps are free to click against each other and produce a different sound from clogs.
A Welsh solo clog dancer extinguishing a candle using the sole edges of his clogs at the National Urdd Eisteddfod in Snowdonia (Eryri), 2012.. The Welsh stepdance (Welsh: Dawns stepio) or Welsh clog dance (Welsh: Clocsio) is a traditional Welsh form of dance involving clog shoes and percussive movement of the feet and athletic movements.
Clog dancing is a continuing tradition in Wales. The difference between Welsh clogging and other step-dance traditions is that the performances do not only include complicated stepping, but also 'tricks' such as snuffing out a lit candle with the dancer's feet, toby stepping, which is similar to Cossack dancing, and high leaps into the air.
Clog Dance may refer to: Clog dance, performed whilst wearing clogs; Clog Dance (song), by Violinski, 1979; Clog Dance: The Very Best of Violinski, a 2007 album by ...
Charlie Chaplin [1]; Nat Jackley [2] [3]; Brothers Richard, Eric and Clem White went to Sydney, Australia in the 1910s and formed theatre companies including Edgley and Dawe.. They had changed their names from White [clarification needed] and the Australian theatrical empressarion Michael Edgley is descended from Eric Ed