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 ...

Brennar Goree’s recent win at the U.S. Open Swing Dance Championships, Young Adult title, in Anaheim, Calif., with partner Torri Smith put him in the record books. “Brennar is the first junior dancer ...

LANDIS — The rhythm and blues sound of “Boogie Woogie King” by Jimmy Liggins was being played, and Tobitha Stewart and Nate Benfield were busy practicing their shag dance steps in preparation for a ...

Columbia, S.C. | John Hook had this fascination, and there was no dancing around it. A disc jockey who had fallen under the spell of beach music - as well as the shag dance that went hand-in-hand with ...

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 ...

Jul 8, 2017 Jul 8, 2017 Updated Dec 28, 2022 One novice dancer has a shag competition on her bucket list. A Myrtle Beach teen already has won multiple national titles, and says one of the perks is ...

The Junior Shag Association always sends its SOS in July, a signal for anyone younger than 21 to spend about a week dancing in North Myrtle Beach. The 20th annual Junior Society of Stranders event ...

Some say shag started with bad boys at the beach. Or that club R&B integrated with swing when 1930s teens crossed Jim Crow lines. Some say it was the sand that slowed swing steps. However it started, ...

LANDIS — Tobitha Stewart took home her second national shag competition win last weekend. Stewart teamed up with Gene Pope, a retired Cary fire chief, to win the senior division at the National Shag ...

The Anti Valentines swing and shag dance weekend events included competitions, workshops and open social dance sessions that lasted into the early morning hours both nights, according to event ...