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May 28, 2020

An old man wanders into the shot...

Grandparents, bruh... pic.twitter.com/5t4w9go1gu
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 27, 2020

28 comments:

Lucid-Ideas said...: Spry; 5/28/20, 8:09 AM
Rory said...: Okay, that one was good.; 5/28/20, 8:27 AM
Temujin said...: I aspire to be that grandpa.; 5/28/20, 8:41 AM
tim maguire said...: Funny. It looks unrehearsed, which means it's a real dance. And the kid has to stop and get out of the way because the old man is doing it better.; 5/28/20, 8:44 AM
Deborah said...: LOL! That was great! It's pretty neat that the ole guy can dance that robustly!; 5/28/20, 8:55 AM
gerry said...: That's great! I wish I could do what that "old" man does!; 5/28/20, 9:03 AM
Inga said...: The old guy is pretty limber, his kicks were better than the younger guy.; 5/28/20, 9:12 AM
Big Mike said...: Funny. It looks unrehearsed, which means it's a real dance.

Of course it’s a real dance! And if I had had the good fortune to be born in Texas I would be able to do it not long after I could walk. The song predates the Civil War but line dancing not so much.; 5/28/20, 9:14 AM
reader said...: The difference between dancing and spoofing.; 5/28/20, 9:16 AM
Masscon said...: So unexpected and such a joy to be happily surprised by anything these days! Thanks for posting this.; 5/28/20, 9:37 AM
reader said...: Appalachian dancing with hillbilly flourish.; 5/28/20, 9:37 AM
Cath said...: If you want more like this, look for Tadgh Fleming on YouTube. A fun Irish family fooling around and having a great time, mainly doing silly dances but other stuff too. The old guy is a caution.; 5/28/20, 9:54 AM
reader said...: ... Appalachian clogging developed thanks to aspects of Irish, English, Scottish, German and Cherokee step dances, as well as African rhythms and movement.

From these early mountain dances would evolve a variety of new dances, including tap dance.

Traditional Appalachian clogging is characterized by loose, often bent knees and a “drag-slide” motion of the foot across the floor, and is usually performed to old-time music.

http://appalachianmagazine.com/2019/01/28/clogging-the-ultimate-appalachian-dance/; 5/28/20, 9:59 AM
tcrosse said...: Meanwhile, back at the ranch....; 5/28/20, 10:20 AM
PuertoRicoSpaceport.com said...: Thanks for that, Ann. I clicked expecting to see another Zoom goof. I was very pleasantly surprised.

I laughed out loud when he started shaking a leg.

Am I the only one who felt a mismatch between the dancing and the music? The dancing looks Irish. The music, Cotton Eyed Joe is southern. I always thought Texas and that area. I never thought of it as Appalachain but perhaps I am wrong? Perhaps I listen to too much Bob Wills, if such a thing were possible.

As for appalachain dancing, heres a pretty good clip:

https://youtu.be/YqCOx0vYwe8

D Ray White

And if you want a really weird movie, try "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"

Thanks again for a wonderful clip, Ann.

John Henry; 5/28/20, 10:36 AM
Stepper said...: Is this like Kyrie Irving disguised as "Old Uncle Drew"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DnKOc6FISU; 5/28/20, 11:17 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: @ reader.

Here is a link to a great sequence from Riverdance where the Irish step dancers and the Black street tap dancers are Trading Taps Such talented dancers.

Very cool showing the linkage between the Irish Step Dancing and American Tap dancing. Lots of influences

I was lucky enough to see a live performance of Riverdance. It was fabulous!!!; 5/28/20, 11:56 AM
jaydub said...: "The dancing looks Irish. The music, Cotton Eyed Joe is southern."

The dancing in video you posted is a good example of a clogging style called "flat footing." Here's a video of two different dance groups, one an Irish troop and one NC Cloggers that demonstrates the similarities and differences using Cotton Eyed Joe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IULZ-PRBSV4; 5/28/20, 12:05 PM
mikee said...: My family tradition, now in its 4th generation, is that you get one photo with smiles. Any further requests to pose for a pic results in bunny ears, crossed eyes, lolling tongues and other funny faces. This started in response to a grandparent who took forever to take pictures of his kids, my parents, while bossing everyone around, and just carried on spontaneously. Now We cherish the goofy shots more than the posed ones.; 5/28/20, 12:17 PM
reader said...: Thank you DBQ.

I got to see that live also. I’m not a huge fan of travel but we went to Ireland (prettiest golf courses I’ve ever seen besides Bandon) and we saw it in Dublin. We were worried that it was something the Irish would view as tourist pablum but the audience was a mix locals and tourists (and not just the locals accompanying tourists).

You are right it was fabulous.; 5/28/20, 12:19 PM
CJinPA said...: BREAKING NEWS from Twitter: It's actually his father not grandpa.

Turns out they do lots of fun stuff together. You redeemed yourself for one day, Twitter.; 5/28/20, 12:20 PM
Tomcc said...: I like how the older man enters the frame with the stoop shouldered pose! He's probably younger than me. Which is not to suggest that I could dance like that even when I was younger.; 5/28/20, 12:39 PM
reader said...: More just because it’s interesting.

Serving as a social dance in the American mountains as early as the 1700s, clogging originally enjoyed several names, including foot-stomping, buck dancing, clog dancing and jigging; however, the fast-paced practice of rhythmically tapping and stomping one’s foot against a loud service in order to create a beat would eventually become known around the globe as clogging.

Dating back to the 1500s in Wales and England, clogging originated when shoes were first outfitted with a one-piece wooden bottom and a leather upper which the dancer could use to establish various musical beats as they danced.

In the years that followed, a more conventional leather shoe with separate wooden pieces on the heel and toe called “flats” became popular and it is from this that the terms “heel and toe” and “flatfooting” are derived.

As the descendants of the first cloggers left Europe in search for brighter futures in the New World, they brought with them their clogs and found a safe refuge in the mountains of Appalachia, where a new form of music was in the process of emerging: Bluegrass, first known as “Old Time Music”.; 5/28/20, 1:13 PM
reader said...: More fun.

13 of the Best Tap Dancers of All Time

https://www.dancespirit.com/best-tap-dancers-2639169444.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1; 5/28/20, 1:38 PM
reader said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/28/20, 1:43 PM
John Scott said...: Rex Chapman, the ex NBA and Kentucky player, is a bit of a twitter star now with his Thursday Block or Charge videos. A write up here https://sports.yahoo.com/block-or-charge-how-rex-chapman-created-a-twitter-legend-151202675.html; 5/28/20, 2:45 PM
daskol said...: Thanks for that link, reader. First Broadway show I ever saw was The Tap Dance Kid, shortly after it was revived at the Minskoff theater with Savion Glover as the kid. Between that show and Gregory Hines, was always fascinated by tap dancing, and even had my parents sign me up for a few lessons, although I never got the hang of it.; 5/28/20, 3:34 PM
Spaceman said...: Maggie Valley, North Carolina, is the centrus of clog dancing in America; 5/28/20, 6:14 PM