Jig Doll Duet by Val. Knight at Reading, England.

A clip of a performance by Val Knight who makes her jig dolls really dance on the occasion of 15th Annual Clog and Step Dance Festival of the Reading Step and Traditional Dance Group aka the Reading Cloggies - on 23-Oct-1993. Characters were M.C. Chris Brady; Musician: the late Simon Knight, button accordion. This clip is from the official Fesival tape was produced by Wizard Video Productions Ltd. The copy was donated to the Tony Barrand Collection at http://www.bu.edu/dbin/dance/ and search for 'doll' by Mike Cherry of RTSDG and is used by permission. Also see http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/jigdolls/jigdolls.htm There are many examples of dancing jig dolls / limberjacks on YouTube - some of them very good. The best dance in time to the music.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• English
• clog
• jig
• doll
• limberjack
• traditional
• folk
• dancing

[ADMIRALSCORNER]

You could easily think the dolls were doing the dancing on their own with just somebody sitting behind!!

[lordnylar]

Val Knight has got some serious limberjack skills!