As part of the program, the  public can learn about traditional dances of the United States, accompanied by live bluegrass music, the city park institution told MTI.

American Footworks is a young folk dance group coming to Budapest from the Rocky Mountains region of Idaho, USA. Their repertoire reflects the diversity of American dance traditions, including hula, Charleston, hoe down, hip hop, southern waltz, and many other genres, the press announcement states.

The U.S. dance group will hold a presentation and dance hall at the Ethnographic Museum on Wednesday from 4 p.m., during which participants can get acquainted with the traditional dances of the United States. With the help of the group members, people of all ages can try their hand at American dances such as square dance, swing, cowboy dance, and the Charleston, accompanied by live bluegrass music.

Before the museum performance, those interested can also meet the company at the Hungarian Music House's Tuesday event: the American Footworks Dance Company and the American Footworks Bluegrass Band will hold a free clogging dance performance on the open-air stage.

According to the recommendation on the Hungarian Music House website, approximately twenty dancers from the American Footworks Dance Company are selected each year from approximately one hundred students at the Idaho clogging dance studio based on their skills, commitment, attitude, and performance abilities. Each must be a skilled clogger and demonstrate proficiency in other dance styles.

American clogging has its roots in the intersection of various early European immigrant, Native American, and African slave dance forms, primarily in the southern Appalachian Mountains. The dance was an improvisational, percussive solo or individual dance form performed at community celebrations, harvest festivals, baptisms, church gatherings, and dance parties.

Towards the end of the 19th century, communities began incorporating this improvisational footwork into social, formation and square dance routines. The social event, now known as " hoedown " or " freestyle " clogging, took on a variety of regional forms and remained a popular community activity, according to the House of Music website.

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