
Here’s your delicious A-list of clogging shoes. Clogging is a truly American dance form that began in the Appalachian Mountains and now enjoys widespread popularity throughout the United States and around the world.
As the Appalachians were settled in the mid 1700’s by the Irish, Scottish, English and Dutch-Germans, the folk dances of each area met and began to combine in an impromptu foot-tapping style, the beginning of clog dancing as we know it today.
Three main characteristics are: boisterous, fast footwork with steel plates or taps on the shoes, a fairly rigid torso and an up and down knee motion that differs from most other dance forms. Although clogging is a dance form for individuals, it is often done as precision dancing by a group of cloggers. Dancers do the same steps at the same time.
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