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Post by nebsen on Jun 22, 2015 4:18:38 GMT -5
Foot Working is a style of dance from the mean streets of Chicago( My home town ) It's been around about 15 years or so, part of the House Music underground, music style is electronic in nature with many mixed elements with strong African beats; that's the only way I can describe it . I posted some video's a while back on foot working, also called Juke. I really love this dance style,very African, fast with complex movements of the lower body, esp. the feet. King Charles( with the red & Black cap & glasses) is one of the best, if not the best person who does foot working around. Even Madonna found out about foot working & wanted it as a part of her world tour recently . They are now holding foot working classes in Europe & Japan. As many know, Chicago can be a dangerous place, with many gun killings over the years, but also young Black kids battle by doing foot working, as a alternative to gang violence . I applaud these young Black youth for creating a very unique dance style that is now getting the attention of the world.
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Post by anansi on Jun 22, 2015 18:12:26 GMT -5
Great I shared this with friends on FB
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Post by nebsen on Jun 22, 2015 20:42:40 GMT -5
Just had to include this clip with King Charles & his fellas demonstrating Foot working, in San Francisco ,enjoy !
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Post by snakepit on Jun 27, 2015 11:44:27 GMT -5
Nice, one can see the same kind of work in other African styles such as Kuduro & Pantsula (slightly different rhythms though:
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Post by nebsen on Jun 27, 2015 17:57:24 GMT -5
Nice, one can see the same kind of work in other African styles such as Kuduro & Pantsula (slightly different rhythms though: www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=010110Snakepit, Thanks for sharing this video of African Brothers dancing which is similar to foot working style in Chicago. I'm including a link from a post from Egyptsearch by a Ledama. Now evidently, they are responding to an earlier post with should I say, has very strong opinions, about self hating Black people. But what stood out for me, is the connections they make about Africans, & African Americans. The dna links, as stated in the post can never be broken by time or space & that includes dance, among many. I remember when I first saw a dance troop, Les Ballets Africains ( National Dance Company of The Republic of Guinea) in the late 60's; I was struck by how similar, the dance steps & movements were, to many, of the dance steps we as African American did. Also I had a powerful " revelation, " I saw, understood , African art, culture, etc. & it's beauty as I never had before, all from the dance company from Guinea !
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Post by nebsen on Jul 6, 2015 19:42:22 GMT -5
As I stated before " Les Ballet Africaine", had a great impact on me when I first saw them years ago. The first video is(part) of a performance that came to the states as part of a world tour in the mid 90's, called" Heritage" which I saw when they came to my area than . The second video is of a local performance, I believe in Guinea . " Heritage" was a revelation, for it showed the deep connection that" Guinea" has always had with the great West African Empires of the past, such as Ghana, Mali & Songhay always being a part of these great Empires of medieval times. I have seen other dance companies from other parts of African, but none has IMHO can compare. The drumming is beyond any thing, I've ever hard with poly-rhythms that you must hear . The dancing with great poly-rhythms in steps is unbelievable. This I believe is from a vast storage of dna knowledge that extends all the way back to those great West African Empires . I was saddened greatly about the Ebola out break, that affected Guinea, I believe first among, the countries in Africa. Guinea is a very poor country, but very rich in African culture & " Heritage". In doing some research on the dancing & drumming of Guinea, I found out that dance was used at times, in disputes instead of actual fighting & violence , the same as" Foot Working", is done in Chicago. Les ballet Africine, first toured the United Sates in the early 50's as & the Black communities always received them with great pride & fanfare. Due to political strife , great poverty, & now Ebola, they have not toured for quit some time. But I'm glad that I can always watch the video tapes, that i have( now on DVD) I got on their last tour, & now on you-tube!
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Post by snakepit on Jul 16, 2015 22:12:13 GMT -5
Nice, one can see the same kind of work in other African styles such as Kuduro & Pantsula (slightly different rhythms though: www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=010110Snakepit, Thanks for sharing this video of African Brothers dancing which is similar to foot working style in Chicago. I'm including a link from a post from Egyptsearch by a Ledama. Now evidently, they are responding to an earlier post with should I say, has very strong opinions, about self hating Black people. But what stood out for me, is the connections they make about Africans, & African Americans. The dna links, as stated in the post can never be broken by time or space & that includes dance, among many. I remember when I first saw a dance troop, Les Ballets Africains ( National Dance Company of The Republic of Guinea) in the late 60's; I was struck by how similar, the dance steps & movements were, to many, of the dance steps we as African American did. Also I had a powerful " revelation, " I saw, understood , African art, culture, etc. & it's beauty as I never had before, all from the dance company from Guinea ! There was this video I saw on a friend's timeline on facebook, unfortunately I can't find it, but it showed his dance troupe dancing to some drumming, but with a James Brown song lad on top of it (i.e you couldn't hear the drums) , what was so cool was that the James Brown song's (can't remember the title of it) beat fit PERFECTLY with the drum-patterns that the dancers danced to (the J. Brown music was just added in post-processing) , so it's true that some things, even though you in North America were banned to use the drum, are NEVER lost. You can see the same thing in that concert that J. Brown did in Kinshasa, DRC back in 74 before the Ali vs Foreman bout, "Rumble In The Jungle". The "natives" are grooving to Brown's music like they haven't been listening to anything else in their entire lives (Youtube it) .
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