"Where We Danced" Intro

Buy the DVD at: http://www.wherewedanced.com/merchend... About This Film: The Feature documentary "Where We Danced" is the story of America's dance told through the lives of the dancers who shaped the art form as well as the places they danced. The story begins on the plantations where African and Western European culture collided to create America's first truly indigenous social dance, the cakewalk. It continues through to 1930's Harlem showing how dance helped shape popular culture in America and around the world. Over the decades dance has set trends in fashion and sexuality, giving the youth of the 20th century a voice to define itself from the rigidness of the Victorian era . It also gave African Americans a means of expression when all others had been taken away. Who's In The Film: This Documentary contains interviews with several dance legends Including: Frankie Manning, This documentary contains one of the last filmed interviews with Frankie Manning, taken just months before he passed in 2009. He was one of the most iconic and influential dancers of the 20th century. He was the first person to introduce an air step in dance and was the lead choreographer for Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, a dance group whose members became the stars of screen and stage during the 1930's and 40's; Dawn Hampton, who has been hailed as the Queen of Cabaret in New York City. She grew up in the circuit of a traveling carnival and is still a performer today; Sonny Allen, a Harvest Moon Ball champion and the founder of Sonny Allen and the Rockettes; Richard Powers, one of the world's leading dance historians and full-time instructor at Stanford University's Dance Division. And many others!