Using teamwork, commitment, and discipline as our core values we build community, one step at a time.
The Company’s collaborations with arts and non-arts partners have engaged Americans in all 50 states and global friends in more than 40 countries.
Step Afrika! expands the aesthetic possibilities of stepping by creating works that combine stepping with live music, technology and storytelling. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER DRINKING A MARTINI 5x7 Art Print Vintage Style Artist KSams.
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Step Afrika! is the first professional Company dedicated to the tradition of stepping. ABOUT IOTA PHI THETAOn September 19, 1963, at Morgan State College (now Morgan State University), 12 students founded the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Incorporated, and established the following purpose: The development and perpetuation of Scholarship, Leadership, Citizenship, Fidelity, and Brotherhood among Men. Iota Phi Theta Chrome Silver Metal License Plate Frame BRAND NEW - 1. How does Step Afrika! preserve the tradition of Stepping as an art form? Book Cover of Yars Arts - EST.1929 Iota Phi Lambda Composition Notebook. The Divine Nine is made up of five fraternities and four sororities: Iota Phi Theta Fraternity () is a nationally incorporated, predominantly African-American collegiate fraternity. College Ruled Notebook for Members of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity 1963. Stepping became a way that members of these student groups (known today as the Divine Nine) expressed love and pride for their organizations. In the early 1900s, African-Americans began to attend colleges in greater numbers and, once on campus, they decided to create their own Greek-letter organizations to support the students academically socially and to serve the surrounding community. Stepping has been described as “one of the most exciting dance forms created in the 21 st century.” In stepping, the body becomes an instrument, using footsteps, claps and spoken word to produce complex poly-rhythms. The Honorable founders of Iota Phi Theta were: Albert Hicks, Lonnie Spruill, Jr., Charles Briscoe, Frank Coakley, John Slade, Barron Willis, Webster Lewis, Charles Brown, Louis Hudnell, Charles Gregory, Elias Dorsey, Jr., and Michael Williams.
Stepping is a percussive, highly-energetic art form first developed through the song and dance rituals performed by African-American fraternities and sororities.
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