What is Gumboot Dance and what's the history behind it?

Sam Sklair - Gumboot Dance

Year 7s had fun learning the expressive South African Gumboot dance form, as a part of #BlackHistoryMonth2022. It's performed wearing wellington boots or, as South Africans call them, 'gumboots'. Gumboot dancing was originally a means of communication among miners who were forbidden from talking to one another. While in the dark tunnels, mine bosses tried to keep order by forbidding conversation. Clad in gumboots to protect their feet from the fetid water, the miners created a tapping code to co

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