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Transcription: [00:21:46]

{SPEAKER name="Richie Rich"}
Jumping over it. Over it. Never took his hands off. Over.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Show them what you're jumping over there Ellison, hold that up.
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{SPEAKER name="Richie Rich"}
Keychain. With a key on it.
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Next, we've got for y'all something real popular we discovered a year ago. It's called spinning on the head. Show 'em one time, Paul.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
[[Movement being demonstrated]]
Do you really want to do that on this floor?
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{SPEAKER name="Richie Rich"}
Yeah, he can do it cuz we practiced on it.
[[silence]]
It's to be done; here.
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We pros. Spinning on the head.
[[Movement being demonstrated]]
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Give him a real big hand we gotta hear y'all for this one.
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Thank you very much. Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The key to street dancing, is that you can borrow from any tradition, as long as you can make it fit in your dance sequences.
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Now, the head spin is clearly a move from breakdancing.
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Paul, here, is a breakdancer. That's his specialty with the Disco Queens and Kings.
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In a group like this, everyone can have their own specialty that makes the group only that much more exciting when they are on the stage, or more specifically when they are on the street.
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Because as long as you can keep changing styles, as long as you can flip from one form to another,
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you keep the audience interested, and you keep those nickels, dimes, dollar bills, five-dollar bills, hopefully, coming into the hat.
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The last form which I'd like to have the group demonstrate to you is the most complex form, and
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the form that people are so surprised at when they see it happening on the streets of Philadelphia,
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and that's tap dancing. The Disco Queens and Kings
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have carried on the entire tradition of stepping; of soft-shoe stepping into their own repertoire.
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When they began to watch other dancers, they took GQ and disco tap
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one step beyond to look at other tap dancers,
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and begin to incorporate actual tap dancing steps.
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Now, while you are putting on your shoes, could you explain a little about where you got tap moves from,
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and why they became -- why you added them to the repertoire movement?
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Transcription Notes:
Richie Rich was speaking at the end of last segment. He is the one describing his friend's moves. Ellison - boy's name, not Allison, a girl's name. A few segments back, he was introduced, going by the name of "Joaquin Love".