1. Gumboot dance

2. Origin

3. ORIGIN
Gumboot dancing was conceived by miners in South Africa. 

4. ORIGIN
  The boots were a solution to a problem of often flooded gold mines in which men otherwise stood in knee-deep water toiling at their work stations

5. ORIGIN
Workers were often not allowed to communicate with one another, which led to them developing a form of communication by slapping their gumboots and their bare chests and ringing their shackles.

6. ORIGIN
From there it spread tribally and became popular throughout South Africa, and eventually became a popular performance art worldwide.

7. VIDEOS
Winston Ruddle Production
Girls Gumboot Dance

8. Rubric for Group Gumboot Dances
Total Mark: 20
1. Ability to work as a group co-operatively (5)
2. Ability to perform original dance steps correctly (5)
3. Ability to Perform energetically (5)
4. Ability to be creative in the performance of their four steps (5)
5. Overall performance (5)