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These girls are clogging great!

Every year, the Clogging Champions of America hosts a showdown between the USA’s best clog dancers. One year, a group of five young cloggers, Sole Power, really stole the show.

They all walked up to the stage and stood in a straight line, in profile to the audience. Then the music started playing and all the girls leaned forward in unison.

The girls twisted around to face the keen audience. Then three of them danced forward while two of them stayed in the same spot. In their new formation, the girls started dancing back and forth as one, really bringing a great percussion to the stage with their feet.

Then the girls all started switching their positions around, clogging with their feet as they did so.

After that, the girls all stood in a diagonal line on the stage clogging some more.

To finish up, the girls got into a formation that was two in the front and three in the back.

After some final dance moves, the girls all leaned their heads down to the audience and crossed their arms.

Then the girl in the center looked up and stretched her arms into the air and the other girls looked up.

In fact, the girls’ performance was so good that they were eventually named the grand champions of that event, in the small team category.

The Clogging Champions of America has been in existence since 1997. It formed “to generate more activity and interest in clogging and competition, to promote a spirit of fun and fellowship, and to make sure the beginner clogger will get to enjoy competing as much as the clogger who has been in it for years.”

Every year, the Clogging Champions of America runs a range of clogging dance competitions all across the USA. And in January, it brings the winners of the regional competitions together for the Showdown of Champions.

Clog dancing dates back to colonial America. It originated in the Appalachian Mountains, through a range of European colonists meeting up and combining their different dance styles into one.

Afterward, the early form of clog dancing spread down through the mountains to all corners of the USA, where Native American, African and gypsy dance styles became incorporated into it.

And some people claim that the current Queen, Elizabeth II, is the one who came up with the term “clogging” for the dance style.

When she was at The White House in 1939, she and other guests saw a clog dance from the Soco Gap Team and then remarked that the dance was “like our clogging.” Some say that the word was already in use for the dance style. But Queen Elizabeth’s remarks certainly helped the usage spread!

But of course, the most important thing about clogging is that people can enjoy watching and performing it.

The girls that form Sole Power really are keeping the tradition alive and well!

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Source: Clogging Champions of America, Clogging Champions of America, Clogon, History of Clogging