Dancing Outlaw

This documentary short produced for West Virginia public TVs Different Drummer series introduces us to Jesco White a hardliving tapdancing Boone County resident whose repeated runins with the law have interfered with his dream of becoming as renowned a mountain dancer as his late father D Ray White We meet Jescos three distinct personalities the gentle and loving Jesse the violent and dangerous Jesco and the extremely strange Elvis We also encounter various members of Jescos family all nearly as eccentric as Jesco himself You will ask Are these people for real Yes they are