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History of Step

What is Stepping?

What is Step?

Stepping or step dancing is “a percussive dance in which the participant’s body is used to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand-claps,” writes the African American Registry.

Step has its origins in Africa, as dancing has been a large part of traditional African culture for centuries.

Calling Step a "bizarre silent dance without music" has to be one of the wilder antiblack racist descriptions I've ever heard of stepping lmao. Anyway if you see the video, it's step!!! They're stepping!! It's a Black American form of dance!!

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the classic trope of "what if you went to a town and it was weird" never fails

rip Mr Collins, you would have loved Patreon

If you need some good news today- you should know that the sea turtle nesting data for 2023 is in and it’s really promising. In Florida, both greens and loggerheads have reached record high numbers of nests. We’re really hoping this is a success story in the making for both of these species.

Almost half of the world’s loggerheads nest in Florida, meaning the state has a huge responsibility to conserve the species.

three people out here high off their asses as the eraserhead baby is being stabbed. how the fuck does that feel

there is a guy snorting lines at the eraserhead screening

there is a guy snorting lines at the eraserhead screening

give me your most controversial music opinion

Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

Reddit makes dumb decision -> I finally decide to check out Tumblr -> meet cool people on the 196 tag and become mutuals -> I discover one of them lives in Aus too -> I fly like 1000km and we fuck and cuddle

WAIT

in "the black rider," pegleg sings "may I use your skull for a bowl," but in "just the right bullets, he sings "the spoon will have its dish." TOMMMMMMMMMMM YOU FUCKING GENIUS

anyways my favorite scene in the 1925 phantom of the opera is when erik gives christine the choice between the scorpion (marry him) or the grasshopper (blow up the entire fuckin opera house along with like half of paris) and she initially reaches for the grasshopper

1927 Three Bauhaus art students. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Directed by Robert Wiene (1920)

art market/eraserhead screening tonight!!

what would you do if you saw me in your radiator