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What is Gumboot Dance and what's the history behind it?

Year 7s had fun learning the expressive South African Gumboot dance form, as a part of #BlackHistoryMonth2022. It's performed wearing wellington boots or, as South Africans call them, 'gumboots'. Gumboot dancing was originally a means of communication among miners who were forbidden from talking to one another. While in the dark tunnels, mine bosses tried to keep order by forbidding conversation. Clad in gumboots to protect their feet from the fetid water, the miners created a tapping code to co

Young boys doing the Gumboot dance on long market, Cape Town. Gumboot dancing is used today as a representation of the history of South Africa: It was originally conceived by black miners in South Africa as an alternative to drumming which authorities restricted. Gumboot dancing has now become a world known dance and its popularity has continued into modern South Africa: Video by Sam Vox @sam.vox: #samvox #gumboot #dance #tradition #culture #picoftheday #video #igvideos #beautiful #mytravelgram

What is Gumboot Dance and what's the history behind it?

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Dancers from Ngoma in Motion (NIM) recently performed a South African Gumboot Dance at Schlafly Library, as part of our Black History Month programming. Gumboot dancing is a percussive dance form that originated in the mines of South Africa. | St. Louis Public Library