May 31, 2019
Caleaf “Loose Leaf” “Loose Legs” “Big Leaf” Sellers — “Basically, it’s your life experience, whatever your life experience was before you came to the club and you heard the music and the way it affected you, that’s what created the vocabulary.
The collective that started the dance, there were about 30 of us. ... It took 1995 plus to realize that people wanted to learn this. And then we realized there was a need for us to start naming the steps so we can keep it around for a long time. Being in the culture and being one of the people that are responsible for teaching people about it, it’s important that they also take on that responsibility and have respect for the art.”
