Tuesday, 29. July, 2025.
11 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Outdoor stage
District XIV:, 3. Olof Palme Promenade Budapest
In just a week where will you be? Ready below pretty sure many will be interested coming from USA to Budapest to get into the GROVE of the American Footworks Dance Company and featurirng the American Footworks Bluegrass Band who will host a free clogging dance performance on the spot of the House of Music’s Outdoor Stage Budapest.
About the Dancers … Their group has 20-24 dancers who are selected annually from approximately one hundred students from clogging dance studios in Idaho, based on their skills, commitment, attitude and performance abilities. Each must be a skilled clogger and show proficiency in other dance styles.
What is clogging? Most probably many Hungarians have not a clue about it, but to be on the spot will find out.
American clogging has its roots in the intersection of various dance forms of early European immigrants, Native Americans, and African slaves, primarily in the southern Appalachian Mountains. The dance was an improvisational, percussive solo or individual dance form that was danced at community celebrations, harvest festivals, baptisms, church gatherings, and dance halls.
Towards the end of the 19th century, communities began to incorporate this improvisational footwork into social, formation and square dance figures brought with them by immigrants from the diaspora in Western Europe. Known today as “hoedown” or “freestyle” clogging, the social event took many forms regionally and remained a popular community activity.
The program will be held even in rainy weather, as the Open-air Stage is largely covered.
To participate is free of charge.
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