09
Nov
Lynette Butler Finds the Light to Find the Photo
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 9 minutes INSPIRED BY: THE VIRAL PHOTO OF BARAK WITH HIS LEG POINTING TO THE SKY IN WLSC 2021 When I saw the...
02
Nov
Keeping Stepping Culture in Places and Spaces Like The Fifty in Chicago
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 10 minutes INSPIRED BY THE RENOVATION OF THE LADIES’ RESTROOMS AT THE FIFTY IN CHICAGO The name of a place, a street, or...
26
Oct
How People Who Do Not Step May See Chicago Stepping
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 8 minutes INSPIRED BY ALL THE NATIONAL COVERAGE FOR CHICAGO STEPPING Every day I talk to people about Chicago Stepping. Probably five days...
19
Oct
Learning to Step also Means Getting to Know Music for Steppers
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 5 minutes STORY INSPIRED BY A MOMENT AT KEEP IT SIMPLE WEEKEND 2022 HOSTED BY CUSTOM STEPPERS IN BIRMINGHAM, AL The joy in...
12
Oct
Contestant Etiquette for Steppers and 2022 Texas Heat Winners
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Yes, I am making contestant etiquette “a thing,” as someone said. In everything we do in the stepping community, by nature,...
06
Oct
How Drew and Smoothtivity Pay it Forward in Stepping
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 12 minutes We continue the Drewry “Drew” Alexander interview with part 2 to focus on the men and talk about community building in...
05
Oct
Drewry Alexander Shares What It Takes to Win
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Reading Time: 12 minutes Drewry “Drew” Alexander has been stepping going on for nineteen years. Being from Detroit and a part of an urban ballroom...
28
Sep
Zee Thomas on Staying Young with Chicago Stepping
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Reading Time: 10 minutes The best part of Chicago Stepping to me is that it can be a lifelong hobby. No matter when you start...
21
Sep
WLSC 2022 Winners, Fashion Moments, and Changes
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 6 minutes What I will remember about the 2022 World’s Largest Steppers Contest are the resurgence of dancers, the familiar pattern of winners...
24
Aug
WLSC Contest DJ Perspective with DJ Cross
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 8 minutes When steppers decide to enter the World’s Largest Steppers Contest, one of the most critical factors they can control as a...
27
Jul
Dave Maxx on Passion, Purpose, and Possibilities in Stepping
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 13 minutes Over years of conversations, I understand that steppers have different opinions and feelings towards the proliferation of Chicago Stepping. People are...
20
Jul
Tackling the Case of A Mistaken Identity. Aki Carter
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 13 minutes Conversations in cities across the Chicago Stepping community in 2021 about the NOADWBP hashtag created by Will Barnes in Chicago caused...
13
Jul
Mega Weekend Etiquette in Miami. Nothing Stops A Good Time
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 6 minutes As far as the Mega Weekend in Miami goes, if you went to Miami without the intention of having fun in...
01
Jun
The Mega Weekend in Miami or RWS in Columbus, Ohio
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 7 minutes GDIGENTS or RWS. How Will Steppers Decide? In the last sixty days of my birthday travels to steppers events, many people...
13
Apr
Iary and Delores’ Unique Approach to Stepaganza and the Final Chapter
by Sonji
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Reading Time: 12 minutes PART 2 Did you achieve what you set out to do with Stepaganza? I believe we succeeded. There were two things...
08
Apr
Iary Israel. Where He Is From Mattered to Where He Was Going
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Reading Time: 10 minutes When Iary “Kat N Tha Hat” Israel announced that 2022 was the Final Chapter for the Stepaganza event in St. Louis,...