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 ...

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 ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Debbie Holland had never danced before her 39th birthday, but at the urging of a friend, she broke that streak and attended a clogging class. Twenty-three years later, Holland's white ...

ALISO VIEJO — Like several of his students, David Nimmo stepped into clogging without quite knowing what he was getting himself into. He was about 13 when he first saw it, a line of people stepping in ...

MINOCQUA - What is clogging, you ask? Clogging is a type of folk dance in which the dancer’s footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor, or each other, to ...

NAMPA, Idaho - Sometimes finding activities or adaptive classes for adults with special needs can be a challenge. A dance teacher in Nampa, Idaho, decided to take on that challenge, by offering a ...

Every November, members of the Clickity Cloggers dance club don their LED-light-lined black pants and festive red vests and hit the street in Johnson City, where they shine as part of the town’s ...