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{Speaker 1}: Cause two together will create something that you would never think they can create. Two people together can create a lot of things.

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Cause he got something in his mind and he might say, "Hold it! Hold it! I got something. Let me do this one! Let me do this one! Yeah, let's- let me do this style right here."

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And I might tell him "Hold it, let me do one."

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And then we fit them together and it comes into one thing.

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{Speaker 2}: It's also important to watch Ellison and Ritchie and the rest of the family when they're working.

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The- there are- there's always one person at the drums or almost always.

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There is a line of dancers at the back who are keeping a basic time step.

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Then people will emerge from that line to do featured stepping.

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So that Desiree or Pineapple as an individual might go forward, do a set of steps

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then as she moves back to the line, another dancer will take the forefront.

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Or another two will take the forefront and be featured there then.

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Are there other questions from the audience?

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{Speaker 1}: Yes, sir.

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TV, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Bojangles. People like that.

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Just always getting up in the morning when we small

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like I guess around 4 and when we- as we got older

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We just stayed in TV, always looked at TV because we liked the tap dancing

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And the way they- Shirley Temple used to go up the step. I couldn't believe that myself.

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I could do that right now but we ain't got no step here for me to do it on.

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But I learned that from just watching the TV.

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Like every Saturday they- they might come on.

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And I'm talking about them old movies back in 1930 and before I was born.

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But as I got older they were still showing it on TV so I started to keeping [[into it?]],

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watching it cause I wanted to tap dance.

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I never went to school for it but I learned from just them. Seeing what's on TV.

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Cause I could count they feet. I don't gotta go to tap dance school.

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If they brrat brrat I could count that.

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Because it's like "rrr-one, 2, 3, rrr-one, 2, 3." It's like a brrat brrat.

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I could count it with my eyes and mind. I don't gotta go to school for tap dancing and stuff. I'm good enough.

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{Speaker 2}: Yes, sir?

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{Speaker 1}: Yeah we do a lot of