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dipsydoodle

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3. Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot and Tap.
Tue Apr 1, 2014, 01:03 PM
Apr 2014

Talking Feet is the first documentary to feature flatfoot, buck, hoedown, and rural tap dancing, the styles of solo Southern dancing which are a companion to traditional old-time music and on which modern clog dancing is based. Featuring 24 traditional dancers videotaped on location in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina.

This film project grew into the 1992 book Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance of the Appalachian, Piedmont and Blue Ridge Mountain Regions, by Mike Seeger with notes by Ruth Pershing.

"Talking Feet is a film about a forgotten side of American dance culture: solo mountain dancing. Mike Seeger and Ruth Pershing take us to the southeastern mountains of the U. S., the source of this genre, and to a range of individuals (old, young, black, white, female and male) who grew up with the idea of talking with their feet. The film captures the deep sense of tradition and the value of freedom of expression these dancers share. Talking Feet is an exploration of a dance form rich in American do-it-yourself pride."

http://www.folkstreams.net/film,121

Its an 1 hour and 27 minutes long so make some coffee first.

Oh the memories. Thanks! William769 Mar 2014 #1
Here's some guys from my neck of the woods. (Southwest PA) johnp3907 Mar 2014 #2
I recognize that tune, Cluck 'ole Hen 2banon Jul 2014 #9
Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance: Buck, Flatfoot and Tap. dipsydoodle Apr 2014 #3
thanks for that.. 2banon Jul 2014 #10
Thats from the Transatlanic Music Sessions. dipsydoodle Jul 2014 #13
Yes, my bad, Transatlantic MUSIC Sessions. 2banon Jul 2014 #14
Do you play ? dipsydoodle Jul 2014 #15
fiddle and mando 2banon Jul 2014 #17
Nope. dipsydoodle Jul 2014 #18
Bascom Lamar Lunsford Minstrel of Appalachia Festival. dipsydoodle Apr 2014 #4
Songcatcher dipsydoodle Apr 2014 #5
Saw that film, it was great.. 2banon Jul 2014 #11
I love the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops Tanuki Apr 2014 #6
Yeah, they're awesome! 2banon Jul 2014 #12
Blue Ridge Music Trails theHandpuppet May 2014 #7
Passing on the song of Appalachia: JAM teaches music, tradition and a sense of place theHandpuppet May 2014 #8
Just a reminder about upcoming festivals theHandpuppet Jul 2014 #16
Irish Dancing meets North Carolina clogging Tanuki Jul 2014 #19
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