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 ...

After careers as tattoo artist, veterinary assistant and office manager for the state Department of Natural Resources, 26-year-old Charmaine “Lady Li-Lei” Slaven decided to devote herself fulltime to ...

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 ...

How did your tiny-house obsession start? I was working in tech, and I basically had a mental breakdown, I guess you could call it. I decided to start living in city parks and just get rid of all my ...

The southern appalachian style of clogging came to North Carolina in the 1960s and has since spread across the state. The southern Appalachian style of clogging came to North Carolina in the 1960s and ...

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 ...

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, ...

“If they are willing to learn, I am willing to teach.” – That’s the philosophy the master clogger adopted from one of his dancing idols. These days he’s wondering how to get more young people ...

Every city gets the queer performance festival it deserves, and San Francisco is no exception. That is why there are highly skilled gay Appalachian clog dancers at the Fresh Meat Festival this year: ...