Clogging belongs to the big family of step dances. Clogging is derived from different European folk dances. At first, it was danced in the apalaches mountains in the United States. In the 1930s and 1940s it became "modern clogging". You can learn how to clog everywhere in Germany. It is easy since there are only eight steps. Combining these steps to figures is all there is to it. We dance with “taps”, irons similar to those used by step-dancers. We do not learn choreograhies by heart, the “Instructor” (just like the caller for square dancing) tells you what comes next.