Word Clog Script

Elisa talks : The word clog comes from the wooden shoes worn by dutch immigrants from Holland. Olivia is going to be showing us her pair of clogs tonight. Clog means time. In clogging we keep time by shuffling and hitting our heel on the downbeat of the music like this. (To cloggers) Ready and. (cloggers shuffle) And doubling on the upbeat like this (to cloggers) ready and. (cloggers double). When you put it all together, it looks like this. (cloggers demonstrate). (during demonstration, cloggers go to their next spot. Elisa hands stage right mic to lily.)

Lily talks: And here’s some good ol’ traditional clogging.

Still in love with you

Lily talks: Southern appalachian clog dancing traces its roots back to immigrants from Ireland and Scotland, who brought with them traditional Scottish and Irish jigs.

Logan and Helen do the Irish Jig

Lily talks: And the rhythms of traditional Irish step dancing are also found in clogging’s ancestry.

Irish Step

Ava Talks: As time passed, immigrants from Canada added the rhythms of Candian step dancing to clogging.

Candian Demo

Emma Talks: And African American influenced buck dancing was incorporated as well.

Buck Demo