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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
[[applause]]
I want to thank you all for being a great audience and ask you all please to come back to the main stage performance area at 4:15
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when the International Play Girls Grand Master now, the Punk Funk Nation and the break dance team the Scanner Boys
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will all be gathered together for an hour long show, you'll be able to see a little bit of the artistry you've heard about here on the stage.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yeah, we just gave y'all example.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We ask you to please stay around though, the next workshop is going to be at least as exciting
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perhaps a little bit more in terms of body action on the stage, we're going to have the Disco Queens and Kings,
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a street dance group from Philadelphia, come up here tell us a little bit about their history and give us some examples of the different forms of stepping [[grunt noise]] especially GQ stepping which is popular in Philadelphia right now.
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We're gonna take a break for just a minute as we get the turntables off the stage, then we'll be back with the Disco Queens and Kings. [[mic feedback]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
All the females come back here I'm taking phone numbers now, you know.
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[[pause, mic feedback]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Of the Festival of American Folklife, if you look on the schedule either posted there or in your program book, you'll notice that what is scheduled,
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what was scheduled for about half an hour ago because the DJ workshop went on a little long and we got started late was a workshop on GQ dancing, popping, and breakdancing.
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What we've decided to do at the festival from this point out is to break that workshop into component parts, looking on certain days at the tradition of GQ dancing,
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on other days at the traditions of popping and breakdancing. So we've divided the groups up, two of the days, two of the upcoming four days we will have with us the Disco Queens and Kings, a street dance group from Philadelphia,
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the other two, the breakdance group the Scanner Boys. Now today we've got with us the Disco Queens and Kings, two members of whom are seated on the stage, Richie? Richie