I'm almost 81 years old and have been clogging since I was 4, never have I seen a group dance that looks as if they don't enjoy dancing, to stiff and no look of happiness, we were always loose and full of smiles.
Yes! I was wondering about that, myself. They look as if they take themselves way too seriously. They just smiled at the end, as if they were relieved that it all went well.
They are doing ancient (by our standards) Welsh footwork. They also were inhibited by religious traditions that forbid 'enjoying' anything too much. We Americans (Appalachian)clog dance with utter abandonment, excitement and joy! They will appear very different. ------> ancient West Virginian here.
Having watched the looms in the last working Mill in Burnley, I can really see how this dance emulates that. And feel the deafening racket of the shuttles flying.
I think some people have judged these dancers too quickly. They have another more joyful number at the end. I’m glad I read the comments and learned about the “ mill machinery” it’s actually pretty funny if you think about it. Very well done. I’m sure group dance requires a lot of work and coordination. Bravo to all the dancers. Their dresses were so modest.
I'm sure they should be wearing bonnets (headscarves) to keep their hair out if the way. Mill workers wore clothing that wouldn't hitch in the machinery. Many accidents involved clothing or hair being caught in the machinery which wouldn't necessarily stop!
The dancers represent the machines they operate to make the cloth. The sound of the clogs was sound of the shuttles whizzing through the warp and weft. Therefore no reason to smile they are machines.... I've never actually seen this typs of clogging before but l knew straightaway the rhythm was the sound of the looms...
@@maureengilmartin4381 In East Anglia? In the Appalachians? These are other homes of clog dancing. When I married into Wales, they took me to a Hwyl Nos, a folk evening, where the locals though to take the piss of the Saes by getting me to dance clog. I'm part Belgian and wore heavier clogs around the house, so I outdanced them, it's not difficult, tap heel-and-toe, also known in the cockney communities I was raised around. You just adapt two or three steps for the style.
in grade school, we did a similar dance, taught by the nuns, who showed us many older traditional folk dances...it was really fun, since my parents were dancers.
Очень интересный танец. Спасибо. Не перестаю восхищаться самобытностью и непосредственностью народных танцев из какого бы уголка нашей планеты они не были. Огромное спасибо тем, кто сохраняет это и восстанавливает. Браво!
I admit I originally watched this video just to see a "diffrrent' kind of clogging from the Appalachian (USA) style clogging that I am used to as I saw in the video menu photo that the clothes were different than American Clog Dance clothing.. I got quite a new kind of treat! Thanks for sharing your fin ed group now has a new fan in Texas, me.
My grandmother worked in the mills of Oldham in the 20s and 30s and was a well known clogger. This is a lot more authentic than some other clog dancers.
And still some persist in the lie that tap dance came from black America. Watch their opening step pattern and if you forgive the fact that clogs have no heels so their weight is further back than a tapper would be they are doing the classis single double and triple timesteps. My teachers all came from the celtic folk and Northern clogging tradition and so did their teachers before them
@@jillalexander3006 Sorry but although the soles are made from one piece of wood British clogs do have heels carved in. The front part curves gently upwards to facilitate walking. This creates different percussive tones as you dance.
@@jillalexander3006 Oh, and because of the shape of the sole, it isn't possible to use the ends of the toes to make good beats (e.g. shuffles), more by using the ball of the foot. Also, the balance is more with the feet side by side than forward or crossed as in tap or Irish dance. If you do cross over the feet for a movement you risk catching the heel on the front of the foot (which, believe me, can be painful!). These are the reasons the balance is different to tap or Irish dance, but it is closer to the American forms of step dances.
Rigorous! I wondered at first why they all looked so grim. Isn't dancing supposed to be happy? :D They smiled after the dance, like they were glad it was over!
@@dkathrens77 Somebody's Clog flew up, and broke the Disco Ball, during Rehearsals. Otherwise, it would have been "Nude Clogger Disco, USA!!!!" Try it, at Home and/or in a Public setting.
I loved this. They took on the persona of the machine the, relentless rhythm. The workers themselves moving like an integral part of the mill, from morning til night. At the end of the day they slowly become themselves again.
That was just marvellous. I’ve looked at American style cloggers on TH-cam sometimes and to me it seemed a bit frantic . One person or a few leaping noisily about sort of clicking and banging . I do realize knowledge dictates taste to a considerable degree ,and I’m unfamiliar with clogging. That being said , this presentation showed a great amount of detailed steps and a unity that must have taken a great deal of dedication and practice . Apart from all that it was a pleasure to watch ,and looked like a lot of fun .❤
The difference in American clog dancing and this might be due to the fact that American clogging is a combination of English, Dutch-German, Irish and Scottish traditions. The major groups that settled in the Appalachian Mts.
@@taro_znaki, танец, как я поняла, работников старых английских текстильных фабрик) Звуки, издаваемые во время танца их туфлями, имитируют звуки ткацких станков.
It was just the "late" dancer who rushes I just before the dance begins. In the bad old days, people working in mills and factories had wages docked or were even fired on the spot for lateness and the most trivial breaches of the rules. These dancers have a great understanding of the tradition they are maintaining and they do it so well. Love and peace.
First,,in old time smile only country idiot,second smile it’s relax,I believe hard to dance and smile,when you need pay sooo much attention what are you doing
@@galiyalaughnan5094 Every other kind of dancer manages to engage their faces I'm sure clog dancers could manage it if they wanted to. Apparently they are supposed to be depicting being at work which is why they aren't smiling.
Is smiling what you are concerned about and not the dance? This is essentially a play/theatre. You must be really unhappy watching another very talented group called Riverdance.
This is expertly done!! As someone who lived in Nelson at the time of the end of the Mills - my Grandparents worked their whole life in them and even my Mother. I remember the siren at 8am. If you weren't inside you didn't get paid that day! It was a hard life - they've all gone now - the Mills i mean. I don't live there anymore.
I love the various sounds they make with their foot work that had to take time and practice to all get it memorized the way they have. It's comforting to hear, it's like a for of communication. Like hearing a story being told without words
One of my Aunts killed herself because one of the tatlers at the mill took a shine to her. She had a boyfriend already so she ignored him. He said she’d got slubs in her weaving and docked her a days pay so she threw herself into the canal
This performance of Nelson Mills did not include my usual preamble about working conditions in mills which would give the answers to some of the comments here. To answer some questions... Why are the dancers not smiling? They are playing the role of machines in a cotton mill. The rhythms of the dance are the sounds you would hear from various machines in a cotton mill. Machines don't smile. Where does this dance come from? The style is from the north west of England. The dance was composed by Pat Tracey who was born in Nelson, Lancashire. Her family had been clog dancing for generations. Her grandfather was a professional clog dancer in the mid 19th century. What was the music? I know the tune as "Far from Home".
I was wondering why the dancers looked so serious as they walked to the floor to take their places. They were getting into character. The 2nd dance - faces are not so serious. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Peace Out
Here in the USA, Clog Dance is mostly done in Appalachia by descendants of Scots Irish, Welsh, and English immigrants in the villages in Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky. Not many know the steps and few are actively participating. Was much more popular in the pre-1990s.
I think God looks down from heaven at us humans and actually thinks we're funny. I'm so glad he placed creativity in us. I've never seen any dance like this. I live in Puerto Rico of course every culture and their folklore dance-we have ours and they have theirs. It is beautiful.
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 Очень понравился танец, туфли деревянные сабо - главные исполнители в этом танце. Ритм постоянно меняется, танцоры сосредоточены на смене фигур танца. Танцоры исполняют танец с шуточной серьезностью от начала и до конца. Привет из Москвы
My downstairs neighbors are soooo annoying blasting music w bass every single day for hours on end i swear im about to take up clog dancing and return the favor lol
🎶🎶Mike Adamson 🎶🎶 " Thanks so much for sharing this video with your viewers. I'm admiring the inscinct movements from the dancers and kudos to the musician playing the accordion ! " 🎶👍👍🎶
Me too!!!! I loooooooove that commercial. I love all types of dancing and envy those that have talent like this. Look at the number of views. We need a DANCE channel. I enjoy the music too.
They replicated the industrial machinery and the repetitive drudgery well, and when the machinery came to a stop, they could smile and in a circle dance the steps again with joy!
Are they dancing with the sounds of the factory ? We went to a mill museum in Manchester and what a hard life for workers including little kids. And most of them deaf from the loudness of the different spinning machines.
My grandad was I believe one of the last to wear clogs to his work as an engineer in Colne, I remember him walking home from work down the back streets, I could hear his clogs ringing on the cobbles as he walked, happy days. I believe Nelson was the home of the finest cloggers, I also remember little clogger’s shops in most towns in Lancashire. They expertly made clogs to fit an individual’s feet. We have lost so many skilled intelligent people to so called progress!
Brilliant, folk dancing,; clog dancers making the sounds of the spinning and weaving looms in the north of England. The clothes they are wearing are of the time.
Thanks for that insight. Doubtless the mill-workers had the rhythmic clatter of the machinery etched in their brains. Stands to reason they would re-create it in in their recreation.
My mother briefly worked in the cotton mills as a young girl. She told me that the combination of wooden clogs and oil on the floor resulted in the girls having beautiful, soft-skinned, feet.
It is interesting that clogs were a traditional footwear in factories in Portugal, that there is no tradition of clog dancing there. My wife remember clogs being worn in the Vista Alegre porcelain factory in Ilhavo in the 1950s.
I'm almost 81 years old and have been clogging since I was 4, never have I seen a group dance that looks as if they don't enjoy dancing, to stiff and no look of happiness, we were always loose and full of smiles.
Im glad you had fun! :) ...bc they look a bit gloomy tbh
Glad your still dancing. They were telling a story of the machinery in the mills
There’s a good explanation a few comments up, that they’re telling a story. Kudos to you that you keep it up!
Yes! I was wondering about that, myself. They look as if they take themselves way too seriously. They just smiled at the end, as if they were relieved that it all went well.
They are doing ancient (by our standards) Welsh footwork. They also were inhibited by religious traditions that forbid 'enjoying' anything too much. We Americans (Appalachian)clog dance with utter abandonment, excitement and joy! They will appear very different. ------> ancient West Virginian here.
Truly one of the best pieces of dance I have seen in a long time. Congratulations to the choreographer!
I can’t explain how this made me so happy. Truly talented, inspired and beautiful.
Having watched the looms in the last working Mill in Burnley, I can really see how this dance emulates that. And feel the deafening racket of the shuttles flying.
Burnley
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I think some people have judged these dancers too quickly. They have another more joyful number at the end. I’m glad I read the comments and learned about the “ mill machinery” it’s actually pretty funny if you think about it. Very well done. I’m sure group dance requires a lot of work and coordination. Bravo to all the dancers. Their dresses were so modest.
I'm sure they should be wearing bonnets (headscarves) to keep their hair out if the way. Mill workers wore clothing that wouldn't hitch in the machinery. Many accidents involved clothing or hair being caught in the machinery which wouldn't necessarily stop!
“Their dresses were so modest”?? What does that mean?? Is this dance usually done with scantily dressed mill workers??
The dancers represent the machines they operate to make the cloth. The sound of the clogs was sound of the shuttles whizzing through the warp and weft. Therefore no reason to smile they are machines.... I've never actually seen this typs of clogging before but l knew straightaway the rhythm was the sound of the looms...
hahah
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@@maureengilmartin4381 In East Anglia? In the Appalachians? These are other homes of clog dancing. When I married into Wales, they took me to a Hwyl Nos, a folk evening, where the locals though to take the piss of the Saes by getting me to dance clog. I'm part Belgian and wore heavier clogs around the house, so I outdanced them, it's not difficult, tap heel-and-toe, also known in the cockney communities I was raised around. You just adapt two or three steps for the style.
The roots cannot be lost! All nations dances are soooo soulful!!!
I love to watch world dancing.they are all awesome.all over the planet.
in grade school, we did a similar dance, taught by the nuns, who showed us many older traditional folk dances...it was really fun, since my parents were dancers.
Очень интересный танец. Спасибо. Не перестаю восхищаться самобытностью и непосредственностью народных танцев из какого бы уголка нашей планеты они не были. Огромное спасибо тем, кто сохраняет это и восстанавливает. Браво!
Interesting yes but not very funny, pity 😮
@@gillesguillaumin6603 I don't thinking working in a mill for 12 hours a day was fun for the workers.
I admit I originally watched this video just to see a "diffrrent' kind of clogging from the Appalachian (USA) style clogging that I am used to as I saw in the video menu photo that the clothes were different than American Clog Dance clothing.. I got quite a new kind of treat! Thanks for sharing your fin ed group now has a new fan in Texas, me.
I’ve never seen this before, and it was awesome ! Thank you all for the lovely performance! 😃👍👍👏👏😃
Ricky Burton if your from
Lancashire we have to sides one in Littlebrough Oakenhoof, one in Clough hole Rossendale Clog heritage.
Newbies welcome
Stumbled on this by a happy accident. Brilliant. The inventiveness with limited means etc.
My grandmother worked in the mills of Oldham in the 20s and 30s and was a well known clogger. This is a lot more authentic than some other clog dancers.
They're like bees telling the others how the weaving goes.
My mum worked at Platts in Oldham and I was born in Oldham Royal Infirmary
And still some persist in the lie that tap dance came from black America. Watch their opening step pattern and if you forgive the fact that clogs have no heels so their weight is further back than a tapper would be they are doing the classis single double and triple timesteps. My teachers all came from the celtic folk and Northern clogging tradition and so did their teachers before them
@@jillalexander3006 Sorry but although the soles are made from one piece of wood British clogs do have heels carved in. The front part curves gently upwards to facilitate walking. This creates different percussive tones as you dance.
@@jillalexander3006 Oh, and because of the shape of the sole, it isn't possible to use the ends of the toes to make good beats (e.g. shuffles), more by using the ball of the foot. Also, the balance is more with the feet side by side than forward or crossed as in tap or Irish dance. If you do cross over the feet for a movement you risk catching the heel on the front of the foot (which, believe me, can be painful!). These are the reasons the balance is different to tap or Irish dance, but it is closer to the American forms of step dances.
I'm here because of the Geico commercial
Same😂🤣
Jhabari Owens same
Jhabari Owens me too! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I must learn this and then get 15% off my insurance
dude sameeee
❤️ These old traditions must never die out.... .. I hope.
OMG the hours of practise this must have taken. Pure Greatness.
True!
Yes. Those side moves and rounding tipped foot taps don't look easy.
Rigorous! I wondered at first why they all looked so grim. Isn't dancing supposed to be happy? :D They smiled after the dance, like they were glad it was over!
@@dkathrens77 Somebody's Clog flew up, and broke the Disco Ball, during Rehearsals. Otherwise, it would have been "Nude Clogger Disco, USA!!!!" Try it, at Home and/or in a Public setting.
They probably have been dancing this since childhood 🍂
Lovely smiles at the end..incredible dancing!
I loved this. They took on the persona of the machine the, relentless rhythm. The workers themselves moving like an integral part of the mill, from morning til night. At the end of the day they slowly become themselves again.
Exactly. They start up slowly as machinery would, then wind down at the end as the machinery shuts down.
I know it was was difficult to learn this routine. But i think the hardest part was dancing and keeping a straight face. Bravo!!!
I clogged for 1 yr,only, but watch various GRPS clog.This is extremely unique + much more difficult than meets the eye! T.Y, u wonderful cloggers!
That was just marvellous. I’ve looked at American style cloggers on TH-cam sometimes and to me it seemed a bit frantic . One person or a few leaping noisily about sort of clicking and banging . I do realize knowledge dictates taste to a considerable degree ,and I’m unfamiliar with clogging. That being said , this presentation showed a great amount of detailed steps and a unity that must have taken a great deal of dedication and practice . Apart from all that it was a pleasure to watch ,and looked like a lot of fun .❤
The difference in American clog dancing and this might be due to the fact that American clogging is a combination of English, Dutch-German, Irish and Scottish traditions. The major groups that settled in the Appalachian Mts.
Браво!!! Смотреть до конца. Очень хороший, с юмором, национальный народный танец! 😊
Извините, Вы не могли бы рассказать, в чем смысл номера? Мне кажется, Вам более понятен контекст😊. А танец правда интересный
@@taro_znaki, танец, как я поняла, работников старых английских текстильных фабрик)
Звуки, издаваемые во время танца их туфлями, имитируют звуки ткацких станков.
@@Mademoiselle_Opossum Большое спасибо!
Love this! Traditional dances performed so well, with a bit of humour thrown in, fab! All the very best!
I must have missed the humor part🤔
It was just the "late" dancer who rushes I just before the dance begins. In the bad old days, people working in mills and factories had wages docked or were even fired on the spot for lateness and the most trivial breaches of the rules. These dancers have a great understanding of the tradition they are maintaining and they do it so well. Love and peace.
I love how all of them are smiling.
First,,in old time smile only country idiot,second smile it’s relax,I believe hard to dance and smile,when you need pay sooo much attention what are you doing
@@galiyalaughnan5094 Every other kind of dancer manages to engage their faces I'm sure clog dancers could manage it if they wanted to. Apparently they are supposed to be depicting being at work which is why they aren't smiling.
@@rorolilred I look again this dance,and I still love dance,dancers faces.I close my eyes,just listen,awesome!!!
Is smiling what you are concerned about and not the dance? This is essentially a play/theatre. You must be really unhappy watching another very talented group called Riverdance.
@@scrimshank1I was being sarcastic. This video is badass
This is expertly done!! As someone who lived in Nelson at the time of the end of the Mills - my Grandparents worked their whole life in them and even my Mother. I remember the siren at 8am. If you weren't inside you didn't get paid that day! It was a hard life - they've all gone now - the Mills i mean. I don't live there anymore.
I love the various sounds they make with their foot work that had to take time and practice to all get it memorized the way they have. It's comforting to hear, it's like a for of communication. Like hearing a story being told without words
I'm sure you have many interesting stories.
One of my Aunts killed herself because one of the tatlers at the mill took a shine to her. She had a boyfriend already so she ignored him. He said she’d got slubs in her weaving and docked her a days pay so she threw herself into the canal
Interesting dance. I rather enjoyed it. Thank you ladies and gentlemen for sharing it with us all. Much love from USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thank you great britain.i never seen such dance before.from America.
@@garyconner6151 ENGLISH CLOG DANCING.....(the british win ban it if they get the chance)Check out English MorrisMen dancing
To be honest ..this was one of our requirements in school. My brother and I were really good. The kicker is I miss it.🥰
Thank you .Such talented people keeping traditions alive.
🇵🇱 Nadzwyczajne 👍🔥. To był ogień bez okazywania emocji ! Po prostu super 👍💓❤️♥️!
This performance of Nelson Mills did not include my usual preamble about working conditions in mills which would give the answers to some of the comments here. To answer some questions...
Why are the dancers not smiling? They are playing the role of machines in a cotton mill. The rhythms of the dance are the sounds you would hear from various machines in a cotton mill. Machines don't smile.
Where does this dance come from? The style is from the north west of England. The dance was composed by Pat Tracey who was born in Nelson, Lancashire. Her family had been clog dancing for generations. Her grandfather was a professional clog dancer in the mid 19th century.
What was the music? I know the tune as "Far from Home".
John Dickson my reply was just a light-hearted joke. I enjoyed the dance!
I was wondering why the dancers looked so serious as they walked to the floor to take their places. They were getting into character. The 2nd dance - faces are not so serious. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Peace Out
They did smile. 😊
I wonder if they have any cross overs from clogging to Irish dancing?
Thanks. This is unlike any clogging I've seen in my life. That explains it.
Truly wonder & I feel blessed to have such wonder. Thanks for this video!!!
Beautiful . . . . congratulations . . . . brings to mind Gracie Fields and her "Clatter of the Clogs" from the inter-war years
This dance originates from Lancashire, like Gracie. From a learned commentor lower down, they're probably contemporary too.
Here in the USA, Clog Dance is mostly done in Appalachia by descendants of Scots Irish, Welsh, and English immigrants in the villages in Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky. Not many know the steps and few are actively participating. Was much more popular in the pre-1990s.
I think God looks down from heaven at us humans and actually thinks we're funny. I'm so glad he placed creativity in us. I've never seen any dance like this. I live in Puerto Rico of course every culture and their folklore dance-we have ours and they have theirs. It is beautiful.
I love the music and the sound of the shoes on the floor! GIVING ME LORD OF THE DANCE VIBES HERE! 🫶🏻
Fascinating and long may wee keep these dances alive!
Perfectly insync
Just lost me mind to this one thanks you very much
I love all kinds of folk dancing. This awesome and entertaining. Pretty fun and comical too. Great video.
How do the remember all the steps?!Really enjoyed it - quite the workout too.
I have visited About 5-6 different clog dancing Videos and this one is the best one so far !
Remember my grandfather clog dancing on kitchen lino, many years ago..cant beat Lancashire clogs
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 Очень понравился танец, туфли деревянные сабо - главные исполнители в этом танце. Ритм постоянно меняется, танцоры сосредоточены на смене фигур танца. Танцоры исполняют танец с шуточной серьезностью от начала и до конца.
Привет из Москвы
Нет там деревянных сабо. У них специальная обувь для степа с металлическими набойками
@@qwerty54488 Спасибо за информацию
I’ve never seen clog dancing. This is wonderful! Thank you for the video!
Это же не сабо!.. 😂
I enjoyed this. Thank you so much for your many hours of dedication. 👏👏👏
So impressed with their stamina and the tiny intricate movements. Love this.
Geico brought me here.
Im not happy about it either
Omg, I thought I was the only one😂
Geicoooo
Yeah same. I don’t really wanna be here but very satisfying.
Me, too. I actually enjoyed that! 🕺💃
My downstairs neighbors are soooo annoying blasting music w bass every single day for hours on end i swear im about to take up clog dancing and return the favor lol
I would love to see their faces! Don't forget to use jingle taps!
And a big square of wood to practice on! Above the bedroom area for most effect...have fun!
Do it Z luv,and let us know what kind of response you get from your annoying neighbors. Have fun doing it too!
And when you get tired of clog dancing, try Irish tap. Its just as loud 😉
Hehehe...
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Bravo from someone with two left feet! Just charming!
Wonderful stuff. Such precision - no one out of line, not a single misstep.
nor a smile :/
🎶🎶Mike Adamson 🎶🎶
" Thanks so much for sharing this video with your viewers.
I'm admiring the inscinct movements from the dancers and kudos to the musician playing the accordion ! "
🎶👍👍🎶
They remind me of those Victorian wooden dolls! The dancing is as if they were dolls. Lovely.
Great performance. I am watching this the third time tonight being really fascinated. Thank you for sharing 🙋
Народные танцы это лучшее из истории планеты! В этом чуствуется дух, природа, менталитет, традиции!
Not only the sounds of the machinery, but the action of the machines were discernible too. Great job ladies!
Love the variety in all the dances of the world🤙🏽💞
That was pure skill and genius....loved it all.The sound was just like a weaving shed, so clever.
Everybody is researching clogging now because of that commercial, including me!
True. I have already looked up classes in my state.
I have to admit, it's pure talent to do this!!! Congrats to all the Cloggers out there!
Ditto
Me too!!!! I loooooooove that commercial. I love all types of dancing and envy those that have talent like this. Look at the number of views. We need a DANCE channel. I enjoy the music too.
I think they are very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for sharing. 💗
A beautiful weaving dance!
They replicated the industrial machinery and the repetitive drudgery well, and when the machinery came to a stop, they could smile and in a circle dance the steps again with joy!
I smile everytime I see the Geico commercial with the cloggers! The best ever!
j'adore ! they smile .. of course at the end. Great job ! bravo.
I can hardly believe what I saw. 😮
Mesmerising and feel good.
I give it 100 out of 10
Geico got me to ! This has got to be one of the strangest dances I have ever seen ! These Gals And guy , Definitely have The moves down pat !
James Reichardt look up Morris dancing!
jane .flippo I looked them up but this is Video is the best one I have seen on dance .
Are they dancing with the sounds of the factory ? We went to a mill museum in Manchester and what a hard life for workers including little kids. And most of them deaf from the loudness of the different spinning machines.
Yes. The movements and rhythms mimmic the looms and machinery.
Facial expressions were priceless...thank you for sharing this video
A perfect depiction of the pace and feel of mill workers.
I'd love to see this live.
Marvellously executed - well done !!
Super Cool. Love how they begin slowly to let you see what they're actually doing before they 'kick' it up a notch.
I thought it was cool also
I didn't see the Geico commercial! I got here from looking up blue grass cloggers...just wandering around on TH-cam all night!
Fantasztikus és gyönyörű!! Remélem a mai napig boldogan élnek!! egy magyar nagymama
Clog dancing in Wsles too. We were down to 1 surviving clog maker in North Wales around 15 years ago. Hope he found an apprentice to take over
My grandad was I believe one of the last to wear clogs to his work as an engineer in Colne, I remember him walking home from work down the back streets, I could hear his clogs ringing on the cobbles as he walked, happy days.
I believe Nelson was the home of the finest cloggers, I also remember little clogger’s shops in most towns in Lancashire. They expertly made clogs to fit an individual’s feet. We have lost so many skilled intelligent people to so called progress!
Such intricate steps!
Love to see English dance traditions being kept alive.Is there a reason why the're not smiling?
They are impersonating the actions of the weaving machines in the factories where they work.
Excellent footwork. thank you for sharing💐💐
Brilliant, folk dancing,; clog dancers making the sounds of the spinning and weaving looms in the north of England. The clothes they are wearing are of the time.
Thanks for that insight. Doubtless the mill-workers had the rhythmic clatter of the machinery etched in their brains. Stands to reason they would re-create it in in their recreation.
My mother briefly worked in the cotton mills as a young girl. She told me that the combination of wooden clogs and oil on the floor resulted in the girls having beautiful, soft-skinned, feet.
Florence Wise Ah. I never knew that.
Why are they so serious? I didn't see even one smile! Is that traditional?
Is this dance from nord England ????
Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! Thank you!
Amazing, it truly sounds like shuttles in a mill.
Wonderful dance, love the sound and energy. Thank you from USA!
This is great. Conan O'Brien and Walton Goggins helped me to discover this. Thank you.
I bet I have watched this Video 10 times and it Great !
This is true heritage in motion.!!
So cute, intricate, like a clockwork dolls dancing around the clock. Beautiful.
Ах, какое чувство ритма!!! Молодцы!!!
Beautiful, just beautiful !
Great Britain my God that was beautiful.from America.
thank you so much for a visit to our history.
It is interesting that clogs were a traditional footwear in factories in Portugal, that there is no tradition of clog dancing there. My wife remember clogs being worn in the Vista Alegre porcelain factory in Ilhavo in the 1950s.
Как же я люблю танцы народов мира! Такая чистота, натуральность и аутентичность в них!❤❤❤
Ещё бы знать танец какого народа, полагаю из стран Скандинавии
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That was very nice! I liked it!! 🕺💃
It didnt look like they were wearing clogs but I loved the dancing. GOD bless all of you.
Immediately reminded me of flamenco. I love any traditional group rhythm dancing.
I thought the beginning was a steam locomotive getting started. I did not know they were making the sounds of weaving looms in England.
Just wonderful...!!!
Greetings from Mexico. 😃
Никогда не видела таких танцев. Это уникально потрясающе необычно красиво!
This is so wonderful, these peeps are tight 😎 I love all their moves , would love to know the history of this dance and the moves . thanks to All
There's a biography about Pat Tracey being released in August. Perhaps there will be some mention about this clog dance in the book?
The noise of the weaving machines in the mills of Lancashire England inspired this style of clog dancing the old people will tell you.
Wow, like a well oiled machine and all the gears are in perfect order.
I did my second teaching practise in Nelson neraly 50 years ago and I had several children in my class who actually wore clogs.
Good for you, Maggie!!!
being a Yorkshire man clog dancing is in my DNA lol
It awes me to see the talent God imbued in humanity. It strengthens my faith.
Love how Maria comes scrambling in late!
I watched totally fascinated. Thank you!