How to Clog Dance
Clogging is a form of American Square Dancing that often is performed in the western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee region of the Smoky Mountains. Clog dancing dates back hundreds of years to when settlers from Holland, German, Scotland, Ireland and Africa combined their dance traditions. The lively clog dance is sometimes called the buck dance or the flat foot.
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Instructions
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Stand flat footed in a circle or square. Clogging can be done with a partner or by yourself.
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Take one step to the side with your right foot.
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Do a ball change with your left foot, transferring your weight from right to left to right and lifting your right foot off the ground in the process.
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Kick out with your left foot brushing forward and back.
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Bring your left foot back and do a ball change and brush. Brush with your right foot.
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Repeat this process until you are doing step, ball, change, brush, brush in rhythm to the music and with alternating feet. Stay in one place and clog until you get the rhythm and master the changing of your feet.
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Move forward, and then to the right and to the left with the rest of your circle or square. This can also be done in a large line around a room.
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Tips & Warnings
Clogging should begin to feel like walking as you learn the steps while moving forward.
The clog dance is usually done to the music of a fiddle.
When you've mastered the basic step, try adding a front kick to your clogging. This is done by kicking out and in front of your leg after the first brush step.
