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 ...

Clog dancing in the United States is similar to Irish step dancing and is akin to tap because of the high-energy, intricate foot work involved. The dance, once referred to as flat-footing or jigging, ...

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 ...

If you've seen the movie "Coyote Ugly" or the TV show "Hee Haw," then you've seen clogging. Lindale native Lauren Maes loves to dance, and clogging is her favorite style. "It's exhilarating," she said ...

Clogging is a type of folk dance with roots in traditional European dance, early African-American dance and Cherokee dance. The dancer's footwear is used to tap rhythmically, by striking the heel, toe ...

The Country Cloggers perform on the Education Stage of the Pavilion during the Washington State Fair on Saturday. Joshua Bessex jbessex@gateline.com For Anne Mills, founder and main instructor of ...

Silver Creek Clogging’s founder/director Ruth Mattox has monthly themes that teach leadership principles such as integrity and responsibility along with the dance instruction for her 20 students. The ...

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 ...

It's called clogging, but at least a few young cloggers seem to find some martial arts moves in the folk dance. "I like the karate stuff," said 9-year-old Phillip Crary, who along with a dozen or so ...

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 ...