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Transcription: [00:33:00]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Alison could you tell us how that started with you, and where you have gone with it and where you intend to go?

[00:33:06]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Okay, stick jumping. I've never in my life seen nobody do this to tell you the truth – but, myself.

[00:33:14]
I started out with a stick about 6 feet, 6 feet long.

[00:33:20]
Uh, I-I be trying all kind of things, so you know, I just had on my mind one day to try something that I had never tried before, that I knew I couldn't do. But, in my mind, I knew I could do it.

[00:33:32]
And that was jumping over sticks. And then I went to jumping over taps, and then I went to jumping over keys. And next I'm going for jumping over cigarette butts.

[00:33:44]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now when you say-

[00:33:45]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And that's incredible. And it will- it can be done by me.

[00:33:48]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
When you say jumping over, I think people in the audience perhaps don't quite understand what you mean.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Imma show you what I mean
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Can you give us an example?

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{SILENCE}

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
You gotta lift your legs and make them touch to your chest every time. Your legs gotta touch your chest.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Have a hand, for Alison there. [[clapping]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
With the tap jump, in that case-

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
The pitcher, y'all, check it out. Jumping over a pitcher.

[00:34:15]
You gotta touch your chest with your knees though.
[[clapping]]
Your knees gotta- your knees gotta hit your chest so as though you won't flip yourself over, cause you will go on your head if you flip.

[00:34:27]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And the end point turns which he is aiming at now becomes a little more dramatic when you think about it, is using a cigarette butt. And jumping over a cigarette butt.

[00:34:35]
He's working on that, hasn't quite reached there yet.

[00:34:40]
There's a real important comment to be made on the nature of this sort of dancing;

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a lot of people when they see folks like the Disco Queens and Kings working the streets of Philadelphia,

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look at it and say "Oh that's real interesting, that's, something that just comes naturally to these guys,

[00:34:55]
because they're real talented, they get out there, they're able to dance, and so they do it."

[00:35:00]
What people fail to recognize, and this is true of many many of the traditions represented here at the festival, is that


[00:35:07]
what we are seeing is not a matter of unselfconscious artistry.

[00:35:12]
Rather it's a matter of very, very self-conscious

Transcription Notes:
transcriber is unclear about which is speaker 1/2; marked interviewer as Speaker 1 and Alison as Speaker 2 There seems to be 3 speakers?? speaker 3 for [00:34:00], [00:34:11], [00:34:15] only transcribing issue remaining is an unclear word at [00:34:27]