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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Tell us where you began to get --
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Before you do that hold up, bounce.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I'd like to say this: the dance he about to do
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
When we was downtown on the corners, it was this Russian dude; that's what he told us he was, Russian, he told us that.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
He came from Russia. We would like to show you all something he taught us when we was seven to eight years old. It's called the Russian. It's a new dance.
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{SILENCE}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And the one man hand he was just doin', that's the Russian right there, y'all. One man hand; Russian again. [[demonstration of "the Russian"]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Let's have a hand for Alison here, doing the Russian. [[clapping]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So, so far we've seen two parts of the dance. One which came from the social dance tradition, the other an ethnic
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
dance tradition that they saw in the streets -- they picked up, developed in their own way and added to their dance repertoire.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now, there are a lot of other moves that you all do that are all a part of DQ dancing.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
One of those would be, what? The skywhip. Could you tell us where that came from, and how you added that in?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
He created that himself, the skywhip. He used to always just stay on the floor so much, and mess with his legs.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
One day, he just took it around. Show 'em where you took it around.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
One day, he just started the spinning so much he looked like a helicopter was moving. And it just kept going from there.
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[[Silence]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So now we've seen steps from three traditions. Social dance traditions;
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
the ethnic tradition of Russian dancing, and a tradition which was developed here by the dancers, a move which they themselves came up with.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
How about something which was borrowed from another African-American tradition, a little bit of a tap dance?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Could you explain how tap fit in to this whole complex; how you began to add tap dancing to your-to your movements?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well, uh, well we started going Downtown, we used to see a lot of tap dancers down there,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
and they was really great, and we admired 'em. We loved --
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