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Transcription: [00:35:19]
They practice, they rehearse. They sit back and look for moves from other dance traditions to add to their own, consciously while creating their own dance routines.
[00:35:32]
It's not something which is at all informal, rather it is a very formal stylized dance tradition at which the dancers spend a lot of time, and at which they are making a profession.
[00:35:44]
Both of you could you both address that issue and tell them a little bit about how serious you look at the dancing that you do. How do you view it? What do you hope to do with it?
[00:35:54]
Well, I've always been serious about it. I look at it as like something that other people can't do, and that I'm glad that I can do it, that's why I like to get out there and show it cause it's something that I need to show. Why I'm living in here in this world with the rest of the people. So as I get older, I might be the next Bojangles, Fred Astaire, that I hope I be. Not just like him, but myself. But still doing the same tap dancing, but putting a little bit more routines in to it. Not only tap dancing, but GQ dancing, and put back into a little bit of break dancing.
[00:36:32]
We like to keep so many different things so we won't have to do the same thing over and over. It's always better to have something different. Why, if you have a group, it's always better to have a Horn player and a drummer, just like we need a break dancer, a dancer, and a GQ dancer, and somebody that can might can tumble.
[00:36:51]
Because you always need so many different people to make you look good. So that's called different styles. We need different styles all times. Anything you like to say?
[00:37:02]
When Richie is talking about presenting different styles, it's real important to recognize, that Richie and Allison are the leaders of the leader of the group, The Disco Queens and Kings, and they have actively recruited other dancers, most particularly other family members.
[00:37:21]
Allison can you tell them about who else.