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Break dancing at the Savoy Ballroom

8/9/2016

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To win the climactic dance contest, I encourage choreographers to "reach into the future for moves no one has seen before." This includes break dancing which would surely affect casting since my protagonists, although they aren't required to sing, have to dance better than anyone else on stage. Since Billy Rhythm and Tharbis Jefferson are in their 20's, executing some break dancing skills is not out of the realm of possibility. In any event, the two will need to have a dance vocabulary that includes ballet, tap, and jazz dancing. Modern is not required. As is knowing how to dance the jitterbug or lindy. Those latter two dances can be taught within a short amount of time. 

Of course, reaching into the future for dance moves to win a dance contest is actually in this case reaching into the past. Apparently B-Boys have been around since the turn of the century-- the 19th century-- so it isn't too difficult imagining this style of dancing showing up in a 1931 Harlem dance contest. 
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