Feb 2006 - Double Toe Times

Photos: Top: Bride and groom to
be Rob and Lacey (center) learn a
clog dance with their wedding party
to perform on their wedding day.
Photos: Bottom: The Horshoe
Cloggers of northwest Indiana
perform for a pregame show for
the Indiana Pacers.
The Double Toe Times February,, 2006 Page 18
A Clogging Fairytale of Romance
and Dance Comes True
Judi Revercomb , “ReverDance” Matlacha, Fl.
Since I have a large decline in classes over the summer due to the
“flying north” of all the “snowbird” cloggers it is usually a fairly quiet
summer as far as clogging goes with only one class rather than four a
week and far less shows than during season.
However, this past summer I received a call from a young lady who
asked if I did private lessons. Of course, clogging instructors do
whatever they can to get people clogging, and I said, “Absolutely!” ,
Lacey Inghellire, wanted to know if I could teach her wedding party to do
a dance at her wedding reception to “The Devil Went Down To Georgia.”
Of course I could! This sounded like great fun. An entire wedding party of
cloggers! Whoa! “Wait just a minute.... they don’t clog”, she said.
Well, I assumed they were country lovin’ line dancers wanting to start
clogging (a step up in the dance world in my book!). No they don’t line
dance. So you are just country music lovers and want something
different at the wedding? Well, close ..... actually the bride to be, Lacey, is
a country music fan and had talked the entire party of non-dancers, no
they are not even sometime dancers ...... into learning to clog, then
learning a dance to do at the wedding reception and to The Devil Went
Down To Georgia to boot.
She asked if they should start with two
months before the wedding. I said we could
have used sixth months, but we needed to
start right away. We ended up with four
months to get the dance together.
The girls I could see managing to go from
beginner to a fairly good beginner clogging
number but big strapping fella’s that don’t
dance at all. Well, was I wrong. These fella’s
worked so hard along with the ladies and I
wont say it came easy to them (or that they
were thrilled with the idea) but persevered and
have brought it all together and looked darn
good if I do say so myself. They not only did
the footwork but did a lot of movement over
the dance floor.
It has been such a fun journey seeing them
show up every week and make progress, one
of the most enjoyable clogging experiences
for me in 18 years of clogging and I think they
all were quite proud when they performed for
the wedding guests on Sanibel Island who
were by the way, quite impressed.
Keeping Pace
The Horseshoe Cloggers of northwest
Indiana performed at the pregame show for the
Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis against the
Chicago Bulls. What an exciting night for all of
us! The group is directed by Janet Kingery
and performs at fairs and parades nationwide.