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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
What's most amazing is that they're able to do that on this raggedy stage here.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yeah this is a lil raggedy stage but it's still aight.
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'Cause we used to dancin' on a block from here to this line anyway. We could dance on stuff small like that anyway.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
 Now there are a number of other moves that they've, they've taken in. What we've talked about so far then are now four dance traditions.
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We've talked about ethnic dance, social dance, talked about acrobatics and gymnastics--
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[[Cross Talk]]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And we--
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Uh--
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Go ahead.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We got another one too, we got so many of em. We'd be up here all day if we tried to show y'all everything.
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But it's called the floor attack, show em that one [[???, name perhaps Tai]] the floor attack.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now in terms of acrobatics, in terms of flash, you must recognize that if you're a street dancer, if you're out there dancing for money, dancing for tips, you want to do something more than just standard forms of dancing.
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You want to try for something unusual, so you develop your flash, you develop your own individual tricks.
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When you speak with dancers such as LaVaughn Robinson, the tap dancer, he'll tell you that when he was growing up in Philadelphia in the 1930s tap dancing was then the predominant street form.
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Yet tap dancers were a dime a dozen, everybody on every block knew how to tap dance.
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All the kids were out on the street doing it. So in order to get a job, if you really wanted to go beyond the street, you had to come up with something unique, something flashy.
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What developed out of that was the tradition of flash tap dancing, where suddenly you had the incorporation of some rather remarkable acrobatic moves within the tap repertoire.
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Well this whole drive towards flash is also found in contemporary street performance.
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When the Disco Queens and Kings, perhaps one of the most impressive moves that is a pure flash move something to gather the crowd and to make everyone's jaws drop, is the stick jump, or what started as the stick jump.
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Ellison could you tell us how that started and where you've planned-- where you've taken it and where you plan to take it.
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{SPEAKER name="Ellison"}
Okay, I started jumping over a stick about four years ago. A long stick, then I broke it down and it just got smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. Now I can jump over a keychain with a key on it.
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And soon I'll be able to jump over a cigarette butt. I'm still working on it.
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But here's a routine.
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[[Cross Talk]]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
It's really hard y'all. Don't let your kids ever try this.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
What-- Watch
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Don't let your little kids try that they might flip over.