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Record #:
5593
Author(s):
Sharpe, Bill
Abstract:
Robert and Myrtle Dotson received a 1994 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award for keeping alive traditional flatfoot dancing styles of Western Carolina. Flatfoot dancing is smooth and light. Both feet are kept close to the floor, as opposed to buck dancing's heavier and higher steps.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 44 Issue 1 & 2, 1997, p89-90
Subject(s):
Dotson, Myrtle; Folk dancing--Watauga County
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Record #:
15004
Author(s):
Henion, Leigh Ann
Abstract:
As a boy growing up in Sugar Grove in Watauga County, Robert Dotson learned flatfoot dancing. Now at 88, he is considered one of the North Carolina's finest flatfoot dancers, an art form that is smooth and light requiring the dancer's feet to stay close to the ground.
Source:
Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 79 Issue 4, Sept 2011, p48-50, 52-54, il, por Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Folk dancing--Watauga County; Dancers--Watauga County; Flatfoot dancing--Watauga County; Dotson, Robert, 1923-
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