Clog dancing
Clog dancing is a traditional North Eastern English dance, along side Morris dancers, and rapper dancers (they use swords which is very cool). I feel that not even a lot of English people know about this amazing cultural dance that we have which is sad because we are slowly loosing our history! The coal minors developed the clog dancing, because that was the shoes that a lot of them wore, and it became very popular in the North East. Clog dancing was is dancing with wooden clogs on, either solo, or with others. I started clog dancing in Primary School when I was 7, right up until I was around 12 years old (I had to stop because of the amount of school work I was receiving). I competed in many competitions across the North East- some of the more widely known ones being in Morpeth- and even performed at Whitby Folk festival for multiple years with my clogging group. I was the youngest one in the group but still managed to win many competitions! I would recommend looking at some YouTube videos of English clog dancing as it really is amazing!! :D
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