House Dance Roots

A curated video archive of the theory and spirit that is rooted in House Dance and Black American culture.

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Watch "FRANKIE KNUCKLES R.I.P" on YouTube

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Watch "Frankie Knuckles at Power House club, 1986 opening night" on YouTube

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2005

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"Xavier Joshua, Stacy Kidd, DJ Emanuel Pippin, DJ ElBee, DJ Brandon Haskins and to the other DJs in this video"

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Dancing was funny, when the music was happening, he'd get up and do his little dance becuase he was feeling good and he knew you knew where you were. And the music was swinging. And that's what he wanted. So he said 'I don't have to play now, you're makin it happen.' — Ben Riley, Drummer for Thelonius Monk

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@50:30 :-) 

https://open.spotify.com/track/6fSdR81YvNG8Wo6i2ytLPR?si=Ixv8bMpLSKeXgLzTREcPZg

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As we dance to a beat that seems out of time To the one you feel in the metronome of your mind Does it offend you that our rhythm looks strange Or causes your thinking to be re-arranged? Could it be that you would understand this beat to which we dance More clearly had you been given a chance? So as you struggle to find the feel with your feet Ask yourself, can you dance to my beat?

Watch us get down to this groove with an Afro-funk feel While we get high to a rhythm with spiritual appeal Expressions of freedom from the descendants of slaves God gives us the strength for new horizons we must brave First bondage, then mental, now financially oppressed With this beat we dance, we know we've passed the test So as you struggle to catch the rhythm with your feet Ask yourself, can you dance to my beat?

The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm is our power section The freedom we feel in our soul We dance to learn those lessons As our story continues to unfold Our beat, our words our melodies, our gifts From the givers of those gifts We're merely the terminals to which they have passed So as you struggle to catch the rhythm with your feet Ask yourself, can you really dance to my beat?

As we dance to a beat that seems out of time To the one you feel in the metronome of your mind Does it offend you that our rhythm looks strange Or causes your thinking to be re-arranged? Could it be that you would understand this beat to which we dance More clearly had you been given the chance? So as you struggle to find the feel with your feet Ask yourself, can you really, really dance to my beat?

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https://open.spotify.com/track/36C05MwXpr0WY8Fo6XMBDJ?si=bYmDM8NZRnuaQ2O3g8-Hkg

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Brian Green’s hoofing / tap teachers

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Ejoe Wilson and John Brown at the end. And Brian Green's details in the comments section.

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