Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction

Subject: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 02:54 PM

Having attended two workshops at the American Old Time festival at Gainsborough this weekend and having watched an excellent performance of buckdancing by Chris Ginn I want to learn!!!However it would seem that all the groups who do appalachian or flatfoot are based elsewhere. I tried to buy an instruction video but could only find them in the USA and they were not pal compatible. Does anyone know where I could get hold of a video in this country or if there are any groups close to Pontefract (Yorkshire) that do flatfoot. I'm more interested in the freestyle rather than the performance precision dancing.

Subject: RE: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 03:02 PM

If all else fails, rent the video of "Deliverance" and watch opening scene over and over... The way I heard the story, precision clogging was invented by Bascom Lunsford in the 1920s or '30s by establishing rules and strict patterns for buckdancing.
So maybe you could reverse the process...

Subject: RE: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 03:03 PM

If all else fails, rent the video of "Deliverance" and watch opening scene over and over... The way I heard the story, precision clogging was invented by Bascom Lunsford in the 1920s or '30s by establishing rules and strict patterns for buckdancing.
So maybe you could reverse the process...

Subject: RE: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: bill\sables
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 03:14 PM

Geoff the Duck would just love to hear Dueling Banjo's over and over as well, I don't think.
Bill

Subject: RE: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: bill\sables
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 03:15 PM

Geoff the Duck would just love to hear Dueling Banjo's over and over as well, I don't think.
Bill

Subject: RE: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: bill\sables
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 03:16 PM

Mrs Duck, How the hell did you manage to put only one post in this thread, everyone else puts two.
Bill

Subject: RE: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 06:40 PM

That's precision for ya Bill!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: Arkie
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 01:21 AM

Chris Ginn is an exceptional buck dancer and clogger. The style of dance done in western North Carolina where Bascom Lamar Lunsford was such a great influence is usually called clogging. An article by David Holt in a journal named "Southern Exposure" attributed the development of precision clogging to the dance competitions in North Carolina in the 1930s which may have been organized by Lunsford. Cloggers tend to emphasize the heavy beats while buck dancers feet stay closer to the floor and tap out more beat sometimes going note for note with the fiddle.

Mrs. Duck, have you tried the English Country Dance Society as a source of tapes? Buck dancing is a little out of their area, but they may know of some sources. I'm afraid the only sources I know of are in the US. Aren't their some companies who are able to convert the formats.

As an aside, the traditional dancers in the Ozarks call their solo stepdance a "jig" and it varies from the buck dance and clog in that it incorporates bits of many different styles. The primary characteristics are that the body is held somewhat rigid and the dancers don't kick and leap about. While the dance works best when the dancers keep time to the music, many of the dancers will not let a little thing like rhythm confine them.

Subject: RE: Flatfoot or buckdancing instruction
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 06:56 PM

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