Dance with Me

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

You see each other from across the room. You lock eyes, slowly walk towards each other and the dance begins. We're reminiscing about slow dancing - the rhythm, the beat, the Blackness of it all- and we’re wondering- is it still alive? We talk to Chicago Steppers who break down the power of the slow jam. Let’s slow it down and snap to the beat..

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0:00.0	Hey, how are you doing?
0:05.0	I'm good.
0:07.0	You want a dance?
0:10.0	Lila.
0:12.0	Hello, Lila.
0:14.0	Lila.
0:15.0	Snap out of it.
0:16.0	What are you thinking about?
0:18.0	Slow dancing.
0:20.0	Slow dancing.
0:22.0	Uh-huh.
0:23.0	You know, remember back in high school,
0:25.0	those moments when, you know, you'll just be standing there
0:28.0	in this room full of bodies.
0:31.0	Most of them leaning against the wall, giggling,
0:35.0	talking about where you got your gold hoops
0:37.0	and how your heels were hurting your feet at the school dance.
0:41.0	I mean, not my high school that I was at, but go ahead.
0:44.0	I like this.
0:46.0	Well, you know, you'd have your eye on someone
0:49.0	and you'd hope that that someone had their eye on you.
0:53.0	And from opposite sides of their room,
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