FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — Patty Morrissey isn't alone when she says performing at the Minnesota State Fair is an experience like no other. "We consider this like our Christmas," said Morrissey. "We get ...
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 ...
Judy McCarthy took tap dancing lessons as a little girl. Now she's a clogging grandma. She leads the so-called dance group at Grand Island's YWCA on Thursday nights. She instructs a similar class on ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Milford woman whose life was saved by a team of health care professionals recently recognized its efforts by coaxing one of them onstage to clog. Ellie Sosnowski, director of the area dance group ...
CRIMORA — Lisa Johnson sits in front of her computer. Tiny boxes with her students appear scattered across the screen. Each box is slightly different. There's shelves in one, another is inside a ...
FiddleKicks, an Appalachian clogging group based in Philadelphia, has been dancing its way through schools and communities ever since it start in 1996. The group will perform at Stroudsburg High ...
In fact, America’s got enough talent that the television network has made the variety talent show a recurring summer series now beginning its eighth season. And Samantha Enck — a junior at Grand ...
EAST GRAND FORKS — Jeanne O’Neil, co-founder of North Country Fiddle and Dance, isn’t worried about the traditional songs and dances her organization helps put together going away anytime soon. While ...