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Transcription: [00:21:57]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
GQ is a different style. Popping is like, you know, wiggling and all that. But GQ is like more of foot movement, uh, flips, uh, feet movements, sky [[??]].

[00:22:17]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
A number of -- of the number of vernacular dance traditions in the African American community, certainly one of the oldest is that of stepping of--one form of another.

[00:22:28]
And I'm sure some of you are familiar with tap dancers -- have seen perhaps [[Levon Robbins]] and the master tapper over there on the main stage.

[00:22:36]
Tap dancing is a form -- a complex form of stepping, which developed from an earlier form of stepping known as buck-dancing in the black community.

[00:22:47]
When buck-dancing reached the stage -- the stage of the [[??]], the stage of the black traveling [[??]] and of carnivals, it became a professional stage dance and developed into what is now known as the tap dance.

[00:22:59]
The tap dance, in turn, became the vernacular form -- became a street form in the 1920s and 1930s so that children on the streets were learning how to do the tap, rather than the older form, the buck.

[00:23:14]
Well on through the generations, there has always persisted some form of stepping in the African American community. That stepping might be expressed in the drills of young adolescent girls, or of black colligates.

[00:23:28]
We've got, for example, on the main stage right now, the college group "Groove by Groove" who are carrying on an old tradition of stepping that is found on social fellowships, fraternities, and sororities on college campuses.

[00:23:40]
Stepping has also remained over the years, a street form. And thus, when you have a form of dance called GQ in Philadelphia, you have a dance which emphasizes the fast, complex, stepping movements.

[00:23:54]
In the case of the brothers here, it's something that started off with the cha-cha and developed as other moves were added on.
Now some of the moves that were