The tapping of clogs on Brazilian cherry wood resonated through the 200-year-old converted barn on a recent evening. Cloggers, some wearing overalls and bandanas, gathered in a circle, tightly ...

NEW BERLIN -- It's a form of dance that originated from Scots-Irish and European descent, known for its foot-stomping, clicking, tapping and shuffling to music. The Cloverleaf Cloggers have been ...

Gena Jepsen likes to clog. Not sinks or freeways, but dance floors with her students at Step 2 This Dance and Performing Arts in Oakley. With taps on shoes (toes and heels) and an upbeat tune in the ...

ZUMBROTA — The strains of stomping, accented by a jingle-bell sound, soon bring a crowd to the dance studio doorway. Young and old faces peer around the door frame, with their eyes settling on the ...

The Country Cloggers perform on the Education Stage of the Pavilion during the Washington State Fair on Saturday. Joshua Bessex [email protected] For Anne Mills, founder and main instructor of ...

So what does African-American stepping have to do with Appalachian clogging? Last year Ann Carter set out to prove that her clogging group, the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers, could groove with an ...

AMORY – Even during conversation, they couldn’t stand still. The sound of metal clanking against the wooden stage was even louder than the speakers blasting a wide range of genres. Though it seemed as ...

The South Florida Cloggers have revived the old-world dance and have been tapping their way through hundreds of events together for years. Now, they’re stepping onto a much bigger stage. The group was ...

In the Bay Area, our nearest mountain range is the Sierra Nevada, not the Appalachian Mountains. But a traditional form of dance rooted in the Appalachians found its way west, probably with the Gold ...

Forget high-end studios and top dollar instructions. Carla Gover honed her dancing skills at square dances in the mountains. As a young girl, she’d "shuffle, step, toe, step" to the fast-paced rhythm ...