American Clog Dancing

Clogging is a type of folk dance that has different styles depending on where you are in the world.

Flat footing, as clogging is sometimes called in the United States, was originally an American folk dance which came from the mountains of North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia in the south.

Clog dancing involves wearing hard soled shoes and the tapping of the feet to the beat of music to create percussion sounds. The movements and sounds are in time to the music.

Two forms of clogging are most commonly recognized in the United States, traditional and modern.

The traditional clog dance form is the Appalachian flatfoot in which cloggers dance to live bluegrass music and string music such as the guitar, the fiddle, and or the banjo.

Modern cloggers tend to dance in groups clogging in perfect unison to recorded music. All genres of music from country to rock are a part of modern clogging.