![]() ![]() Flatfoot dance steps are made by sliding the feet with a shuffling movement. There aren't many standard steps each person just dances to the rhythm of the song. Photo by Arbogast Inn on flickr creative commons.įlatfoot is a freestyle solo dance where the dancer keeps both feet close to the floor. If other dancers join in, each one dances individually to the rhythm of the music without trying to imitate the dance steps of others. A buck dancer might even bring his own portable dance board. There aren't many documented buck dancing steps so people learned the dance by watching and imitating.īuck dancers usually dance alone and in a small area of space. A buck dancer doesn't often wear taps like cloggers do. In buck dancing, steps are danced on the balls of the feet, then the heel clicks on the floor, and back to the ball of the foot. Later, Cherokee Indian ceremonial dances and black minstrel shows probably influenced dancing styles, too. Irish, Scottish and English immigrants shared their dance steps, which evolved into Appalachian dancing. Buck dancing is freestyle solo dancing. Many of the buck dancer's steps are similar to basic clogging steps, but buck dancers add in more stomps and shuffles in order to make more sounds per beat than in regular clogging. ![]()
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