[7/30/2010 SteppersUSA Daily News]
Hotter Contest Final Tonight
By Markie Bee
National Chicago Style Steppers Day
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Tonight J.E.P. Productions will present the finals of their "Hotter Than July" steppers contest at Club Dyamonds. I would suggest getting there early if you want a decent seat at the place tonight. There will be ten couples vying for the top spot and if the last preliminary is any indication, the place will be packed with supporters of the contestants as well as the rest of the steppers community that enjoy the competition that comes with each steppers contest.
I've heard several predictions over the last couple of weeks and if they indicate what kind of crowd that will be in the house we may just be in for one helluva contest! I won't make any predictions myself but with this one I wish I was a bookie because that's where the real money might just be in this contest. In other contest news, The WLSC is in Orlando FL this weekend for the Orlando Steppers Connection and Stylistic Steppers All White Affair Weekend.
I'll be shooting video of the finals, and I'll have the DVD ready in short order as I squeeze it in between another major video project I've been working on for the last month. I'll put a PayPal page up on SteppersUSA so you can order the 2 DVD set of the preliminaries and the finals.
Speaking of video, I've updated the YouTube pages on SteppersUSA and added another page too. When I have time I'll add more. Yesterday, YouTube announced they are now allowing videos of up to fifteen minutes in length so now we'll be able to all post longer videos on the most popular video sharing site on the planet.

 

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I'd like to share your Facebook videos too of course I could download them and then upload them to the server, but why do all of that work? The easiest way is to ask you the up loader to go to your video page on Facebook and copy the embed code and send it to me. I'll take care of the rest and you'll have a wider audience to view your videos.
I posted this in the SteppersUSA Facebook group... it's a truism especially for the steppers community written by of all people... Dr. Seuss, "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
There are two organizations in the Boston area that are celebrating National Chicago Style Steppers Day (NCSSD). Even though I stopped adding cities to the map of the United States because of multiple events in some cities; and changes are happening at lightning speed. Each group is invited to submit an article about their organization and their involvement in the NCSSD event. This submission comes from the Original Steppers of Boston.
Boston is home to approximately 80 active steppers in our group. Some of us were fortunate enough to learn from steppers' native to Chicago. This opportunity allowed us to become passionate about the dance, its history, and its future. This passion was the impetus that compelled us to expose this dance to folks in Boston and the New England states.
In 2006 we formed our dance organization The Original Steppers of Boston, at that time we no longer had a Chicago-trained stepper based in our city to provide dance instruction. After being exposed to this dance there was no way any of us here in Boston was going to sit idly by and let this go by the wayside. Once we were exposed there was no turning back. The impact of "Chicago style steppin' was more than we ever realized, even more so when our instructor moved back to Chicago. We made a collective decision that we love this expression in dance too much and we wanted to do whatever we needed to do to continue. In order to survive many of us had to travel out of state to maintain our skills. In order to thrive we returned to Boston with knowledge that we were willing to share and teach others. We also make the effort to host workshops with nationally recognized Steppin' instructors; LC Henderson, Sarah Teagle, Pat Clay, Charlotte, Lady Margaret, Charnice, Tanya Nash, Shereda Newborn, Dominique Robinson, Larry Collins, Kammal Smith, and a host of others whom may be not be nationally known but certainly have made a memorable contribution to our early beginnings here in Boston to help spread the seeds of this dance. Whether these people are coming to our city to teach, or whether we are traveling on the road to participate in one of their many workshops or events. We enjoy these opportunities, and are looking forward to the many challenges we face, and to the progress that we believe that we are making.
We are excited about National Chicago Style Steppers Day. We are looking forward to our participation on this day. We are eager to contribute, do our small part to make this day a national success. Hopefully this day will bring more exposure to the dance nationally. Assist in bringing it to the forefront, even if it's for a day in areas well outside of Chicago.
Our thoughts are not to make this event a day for overt, organizational self- promotion; however we expect and encourage the members of various Boston organizations to wear their gear, t-shirts, hats, etc to express unity in our desire and dedication to keep steppin' alive and well. The New England Steppers and the Original Steppers of Boston are collaborating to bring National Chicago Style Steppers Day to the Boston, at the American Legion Post, 56 Harvard Ave, Hyde Park, MA
I am Gentleman Scott, a certified instructor and just one of the 14 steppers that founded the Original Steppers of Boston club in 2006.

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