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Transcription: [00:26:24]
ELLISON: --Disco tap

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{Speaker 2}: Now when you started tap dancing, who would you say were your influences, Ellison.
In terms of people you saw either on, through the media, or in person?

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ELLISON: Yeah we used to watch like: Fred Astaire, Bojangles, Shirley Temple.
Learned a few things off 'em like-- [[Tap dances]]

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Stuff like that off Bojangles and, um, few more things. [[Tap dances]]

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And um, um, we learned something. We we made this up on our own right.
After we started practicing off the TV. Watching what they can do.
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This called something we made up. Its called "A Room." Watch closely. [[Tap dances]]
We made this up ourself. [[Tap dances]]

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Y'all like that? [[Background talking and claps]]
What I like to say. Y'all heard of LaVaughn of tap dancing right?
LaVaughn that's been over there on, um, American Stage?

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{Speaker 2} LaVaughn Robinson, Philadelphia tap dancer,
whose on the main stage here at the festival.

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{Ellison} I like to let Y'all know, he showed my brother something.
It's real hard, too. The one foot tap. [[Tap dances]]
You gotta be steady to keep that foot on there. [[Tap dances]] Yeah.

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[[Tap dances]] But, we like to let y'all know, we created called the foot tap.
I gotta put the mike down and show y'all this. [[Tap dances]] Thank you.