Clog Dancing On The Porch
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Dancers clog to national event
Many students of Dance FX, 530 W. Valley Road, have been studying clogging for more than a decade.
"A lot of these kids have started when they were 3, and they're just now reaping the benefits of their dancing," said clog coach Toby Black.
Black, who owns the studio with his wife Rosalie, learned the art of clogging in college.
Rosalie dances ballet, jazz and hip-hop.
Clogging, which has similar clackity-clack appeal to tap dancing, is different more many reasons.
First, clogs have two taps on the toe and the heel, whereas tap shoes have a single tap.
Tap dancing is more into the ground, whereas clogging is across the ground, Black said.
"But we claim clogging as a melting pot of every dance," he said, with the style drawing heavily on moves from classical, tap and hip-hop styles of dance.
Black sent a team to the national event 11 years go, and said the troupe would be "dumb not to go" this year.
"At their age and ability, they have to go for a trophy," he said. "You never know those that are out there.
