Dance, Jesco, Dance

A few years ago I saw a documentary called 'Dancing Outlaw' about Jesco White, a self-titled 'hillbilly dancer' from Boone County, West Virginia. It's amusing and appalling at the same time - the abject poverty they live in is profound and the self-destructive streak in this guy and his family is legendary. Apparently Johnny Knoxville has done a new documentary on the whole family called 'The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.' Check out the clip. The women in this thing are probably in their 30s or 40s but they look 70.

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

Here's a still from the Dancing Outlaw documentary of Jesco dancing on a doghouse. The dancing he does is a mix of tap and clogging moves common in Appalachia. Jesco is pretty good but his father, Donald Ray White, was said to be the master.



Must give a shout-out to my friend Aaron who is the one who showed me the 'Dancing Outlaw' documentary...