Dance
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We have parkour dancers who
dance
in the rubble of their homes.
I'd imagine it all like a choreographed
dance
thousands of feet up.
The Bop is a type of social
dance.
Dance
is a language, and social
dance
is an expression that emerges from a community.
A social
dance
isn't choreographed by any one person.
Each
dance
has steps that everyone can agree on, but it's about the individual and their creative identity.
The Juba
dance
was born from enslaved Africans' experience on the plantation.
Brought to the Americas, stripped of a common spoken language, this
dance
was a way for enslaved Africans to remember where they're from.
The crazy thing about this
dance
is that the Cakewalk was performed for the masters, who never suspected they were being made fun of.
Started by a tight-knit Black community near Charleston, South Carolina, the Charleston permeated
dance
halls where young women suddenly had the freedom to kick their heels and move their legs.
Now, social
dance
is about community and connection; if you knew the steps, it meant you belonged to a group.
Through social dance, the boundaries between groups become blurred.
Along with the emergence of hip-hop, African-American social
dance
took on even more visibility, borrowing from its long past, shaping culture and being shaped by it.
Why do we
dance?
Why do we
dance
together?
They stay still, and the vowels
dance
around the consonants.
Jeff and I were full-time ballroom
dance
instructors when the big TV ballroom revival hit, and this was incredible.
I mean, all of the ballroom
dance
geeking out that we had always done on why salsa worked differently than the competitive rumba and why tango traveled unlike the waltz, all of that just hit the public consciousness, and it changed everything.
If you were to take a ballroom
dance
and translate that into a conversation and drop that into a movie, we, as a culture, would never stand for this.
What if we could
dance
like that?
JF: Let's try this with a Latin dance, salsa.
And here's how it looked when we danced it in the opening
dance.
With this simple tweak, the
dance
moves from being a dictation to a negotiation.
Because, of course, it isn't just a system of switching leads; it's a way of thinking that can actually make the
dance
itself more efficient.
The waltz is a turning
dance.
This means that for the lead, you spend half of the
dance
traveling backwards, completely blind.
Even if one person led the whole
dance
but allowed this switch to happen, it would be a lot safer, while at the same time, offering new aesthetics into the waltz.
Obviously, this applies off the
dance
floor as well, but on the floor, it gives us the perfect opportunity to update an old paradigm, reinvigorate an old relic, and make it more representative of our era and our current way of being.
TC: Jeff and I
dance
partner dancing all the time with women and men and we love it.
But we
dance
with a consciousness that this is a historic form that can produce silence and produce invisibility across the spectrum of identity that we enjoy today.
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