Originally Posted by PhrozenGod01

I was at that show in 2003, a little while before crossing. :cool: StepAfrika even taught audience members some basic steps. It was freakin sweet!


Some time later, one of the bruhs there who had relocated to the cities for a little while from Howard showed us a video of their tour in Africa. At one location, the bruhs put on a step show for some teenagers, and then an Irish dancer put on a show for the same audience. They both alternated parts of their performances so that it looked kind of like a battle. I thought the bruhs set it off, but the Irish dancer came with it as well. A historical connection between those two wasn't really discussed, but it was still a great learning experience.

Originally Posted by mccoyred

I haven't seen this fleshed out but during the early days of slavery, white indentured servants, mostly Irish, worked right along side the Black slaves, even intermarried until laws changed banning interracial marriage. I am sure that there was some cultural exchange during that period.

Originally Posted by jojapeach

The worst thing I still remember is seeing one of those televised step shows from Universal Studios from the early '90s. XYZ sorority was in cute tuxedo ensembles, but they were all over the place. For the finale, I believe one member should have done a back flip over another member who was lying down. She must have forgot because she fell over her soror, and her legs were flying in the air. She stood up quickly, but I felt embarrassed for them.

Originally Posted by KAY10 (Post 1302861)

Who's been in a step show? Did you mess up?:eek: or were you just too smoooooth?:cool:

Originally Posted by PhrozenGenius (Post 1422213)

Lemme tell you a recent stepshow experience of mine. We were at Tuskegee University for the Battle of the Burning Sands Stepshow. The first 4 acts were good. We were excited because of the level of competition and the high energy of the show. The host was so not funny, but the H.S. groups and the musical performance saved him. Then right before we are supposed to go onstage they decide to have a stroll off.

IF you've ever been to a show at Skegee, you know they are in the gym, so we usually step on a tarp that covers the floor. You catcha wrinkle in the middle of a step you're DONE!

So the stroll off ends and my brethren smooth out the tarp for us, then they have a "Walk It Out" competition...which screws up the tarp AGAIN. I'm already pissed off because we've waited for 30 minutes since the last act. Then the comedian decides to be a praise dancer! What the hell!?!?!?!? Total wait since the last act: 45 minutes.

Finally we get out there and we are doing our precision thing. In the middle of one of our steps I look up and one of the judges is on his phone. I literally stopped stepping and my mouth fell open! I was pissed! I played it off by doing something that fit in with the step. What made it worse was that we have a part where I jump on someone's shoulder's. While I'm up in the air I hear, "Damn! How them niggas get on they shoulders?!?!?! Hey man, I'm gonna have to call you back."

Then the last part of the show comes and the DJ accidentally ejects our cd and we're laying down on the ground waiting for the music to start for another 2 minutes....needless to say I was pissed. We still won, but I was PISSED!