Jig Dance & Traditional Percussion Workshop with Steve Green

Description

This workshop is all about keeping the beat with traditional percussive instruments, including your feet, by jig dancing! Jig dance is a percussive dance from which tap dance developed, and this workshop is for the absolute beginner as well as experienced dancers. You’ll enjoy learning the tradition of this freestyle dance of the Ozarks and the Appalachian Mountains. You will also learn to accompany Old Time music with spoons and bones, as well as simple hambone (body percussion). The instructor, Steve Green, is a percussionist, clogger, flatfoot & buck dancer, and Old Time Square Dance caller, as well as a National Buck (Jig) Dancing champion. He has taught jig dance and called square dances across the US as well as in England, Scotland, and Ireland. His classes emphasize the fun, and we will make a joyful noise! This workshop is for all ages and abilities.