No, this isn’t the carpet or the haircut. Shag dancing is the state dance of South Carolina and comes from the Grand Strand. Three times a year, thousands of shaggers, as they’re called, descend on ...

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 ...

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The Shag, which is the South Carolina State Dance, has become an international phenomenon. There are competitive Shag dances, Shag clubs across the country, and Shag hot spots that host Shag Night on ...

GREENVILLE — The origins of the Carolina shag are murky, but there was one woman who helped popularize the breezy partner dance on an integrated dance floor more than 75 years ago. Her childhood ...

North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Before the music started playing, Jeppy McDowell looked timid, waffling between stepping out onto the dance floor with his partner, Judy Bazemore, and staying on the sidelines ...

North Myrtle Beach, S.C. The deaths of two musicians and scores of newly reported COVID-19 cases are heightening concerns that a recent shag dancing event in North Myrtle Beach may have contributed to ...

So when each shag event arrived this year, Morley and SOS board chairman Ronnie Gregory said their organizations knew they had no choice but to cancel given the chance of infection in their dancing ...