All right, you have to step and new at five Historically Black Colleges and Universities are putting on this week for homecoming with huge celebrations happening at the H BC US right here in Atlanta. A big part of those festivities, stepping and strolling performances by the sororities and fraternities there on campus,
The collapse, the stomps. It’s a beautiful sight. 11 alive. Katelin Ross got a preview of some of the best routines on the steps of Clark. Atlanta University students get the rhythm of campus life at cau. They’re stepping in to their new routine,
The beats, the claps, the stomps, all of that are just music without instruments that greatness on full display from the divine nine fraternities and sororities. You gotta listen to it and enjoy it. It’s just like a classical song that you just want to hear again and again, ars
Each chapter finding their own stride, the unity and this complexity is very complicated. But when you finally get it, it’s so rewarding. Steping was introduced to HBCU campuses in the early 19 hundreds. The repetition of the movements growing stronger each year, the steps and strolls are unique to each organization,
But the message is the same stepping derived from African traditional dance. And at H BC U, that’s very important for us to express ourselves in that artistic form standing on the shoulders of their ancestors comes from African heritage, the way they communicate the rhythm, the beats, the claps, the stomps,
They have history at their feet as a black woman, you know, of the time we can be a unapologetically loud or boastful or cocky. So I feel like step is that, you know, route that, that type of artistic form where I’m able to be myself whole, the art of the dance
Showing the strength of the students. We just pay homage to our chapter and to other brothers that came before us because these steps are legendary at HBCUS. They’re honoring their past by stepping in to their future. They got some rhythm for sure. Oh my gosh. I just can’t even imagine.
It takes so much more coordinations than it probably seems it really does. But it’s part of the culture, especially at H BC us. My parents were Greek. Uh We’ve got uh Jennifer Bellamy and Faith who are also Greek. They know a thing or two about Stepan Strolin.
They’re not here today to demonstrate, but we had put them on the spot. I’m not sure they would have, they might, might work on that.
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