Photo by Jeffrey Saulton Frank and Susan Shreeve, of Buckhannon, were among those at the Mid-Ohio Valley Shag Dance Club dance in Belpre on Saturday. BELPRE — Although it is said to have originated in ...

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – Over $17,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded this weekend at the 30 th National Shag Dance Championships, which will bring shag dancers of all skills levels to North ...

Members of the Junior Shag Dance Team gathered May 17 at the Center Stage Dance Studio in China Grove for the final practice on their dance routine before heading to the USA Grand Nationals Dance ...

MYRTLE BEACH — Landis’s own Tobitha Stewart brought home a silver medal at the 40th Annual National Shag Dance Championships but she wasn’t the only one in the family to do so. Her granddaughter ...

Can you guess my favorite activity? You may assume running, because I do that seven days a week and have mentioned it in numerous columns. You’re warm, but that’s not it. This involves some exercise ...

Shag can be used as both a noun and a verb to describe the popular dance that originated along the strands between Carolina Beach and Myrtle Beach, S.C., in the 1940s and '50s. For hundreds of area ...

Originating on the beaches of North Carolina, the shag dance twirled its way across the dance floor for 60 years before landing at Springfield Mall, in a charity effort for The Hospice of Northern ...

Get your shagging shoes on, it’s time to shag! Shag dancing is coming back to the Grand Strand with the 32nd National Shag Dance Championships titles at the Spanish Galleon in North Myrtle Beach ...

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Did you know that there are about 100 shag clubs in the U.S.? And that a good many of their members will be dancing right here in Columbia this weekend? That’s when the Capital City Shag Club and the ...

Any self-respecting, rhythm-having South Carolinian can’t, for sure. (Though, let’s face it: Some of us just don’t have the rhythm, do we?) The mood was loose and fun – just like the state dance – as ...