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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Singilford- [[muffled]] Is that right? Right, okay.
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Ellison Thomas he says. Well, we're going to be doing is discussing traditions of GQ dancing,
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now the two people who are on here on the stage with me have a long long family history of dancing,
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they've been dancing since they were young children with their families who were dancing before them, we're going to be sitting here basically talking about the tradition in the family
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then going through a series of the moves trying to break down GQ dancing into its component parts.
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We figure that the best way for you to understand what goes into the dance is to start from the beginning with some of the very basic steps
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and take those basic steps through the progression to the more complex steps which make up the dance that you see them doing on the main stage.
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Perhaps the best way to start, Ellison and Richie, is for you to tell us a little bit about how you started dancing and what were the stages on which you danced?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
one, two
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How y'all doing out there?
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Um, when we first started out I was five years old, my brother Ellison over here was six,
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we was little like the kids down in the front, small just like that, a little bit bigger though,
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like there's a playground down the street from us and a field across the street from our house, we used to take my mom pots and pans out the house, she say "Put 'em back, put them pots and pans back!"
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well we used to just take them to go play on them, that's how we learned to play instruments period.
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Playing on pots and pans and um, any- anything that's tin, we played instruments and made some kind of sound out of them.
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As to where we always been then from there we started- we went downtown one time, it was my cousins Valitor [[?]] he seen this, this man juggling fire, putting it out of his mouth
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so we knew that we could dance all our life and play instruments, so the next day we went down, there was only three of us
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we made $275, three of us collecting on the corners, banging, playing our drums center city, downtown in the ghetto corners
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then from there we started picking up more, bought a new set of drums, bought this kazoo here
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[[plays kazoo notes]]
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kept going, brung a little bit tap dancing