George Messenger runs the oldest black-owned business in Clarksdale, Mississippi - home of the Delta blues. Clarksdale has changed in many ways since the days of sharecropping and the Jim Crow South. But, as George asks, has it changed enough?

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Washington, D.C. is so much more than the political heart of the nation; it’s the home of go-go music and #DontmuteDC , the people-powered movement against gentrification. Beat Ya Feet is danced in the streets, backyards and go-go clubs of Black DC, and is making a comeback thanks to John “Crazy Legz” Pearson (https://crazylegzcardio.com/), founder of the Who Got Moves Battle League. The dance is a bouncy, fast-moving tribute to the insurmountable spirit of the DMV (DC-Maryland-Virginia) and, if Legz has his way, is going to spread across the country. 📺 WATCH this Beat Ya Feet tutorial with Kevin "Noodlez" Davis and Tierra "Poca" Parham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dgZhWL-Vj8&t=23s #beatyafeet #ifcitiescoulddance NEW SEASON 3 EPISODES EVERY OTHER TUESDAY! 🔔Hit that SUBSCRIBE button! 🔔 https://bit.ly/SubscribeKQEDArts Our history. Our culture. Our moves. KQED Arts’ award-winning video series #IfCitiesCouldDance is back for a third season! In each episode, meet dancers from across the country representing their city’s signature moves. Watch a new episode from season three of the video series every other week. 📖 Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/ICCDxDC 🎶 Listen to our curated go-go playlist: https://bit.ly/ICCDxDCxMusicPlaylist 🌎 Explore a map of Washington, D.C.: https://bit.ly/ICCDxDCxStoryMap ****** 👍🏽 Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kqedarts/ 👍🏽 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kqedarts 👍🏽 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KQEDarts 📖​ Chapters: 00:00 Meet John "Crazy Legz" Pearson 00:15 What is Beat Ya Feet 00:55 Go-Go Music and Chuck Brown 01:53 History of John "Crazy Legz" Pearson 02:56 Kevin "Noodlez" Davis 03:38 Tierra "Poca" Parham 04:00 Gabrielle "Soul" Kornegay 04:18 DeAngelo "Delow" Garvin 04:46 Don't Mute DC Movement 06:04 The Next Generation of Beat Ya Feet 👟Featured dancers: John "Crazy Legz" Pearson Kevin "Noodlez" Davis Tierra "Poca" Parham Eden "Litty" Jackson Gabrielle "Soul" Kornegay DeAngelo "Delow" Garvin Special thanks to Nico Hobson and D.C.'s own DJ Frank "the Crank" White of GoGoRadio LIVE: http://gogoradio.live/ 🎵 Featured music: "Church" by Tone P "Let the Beat Rock" by Roy Battle, Jr. "Wind Me Up, Chuck" by Chuck Brown "Chicky Bum" by TCB Band/Bounce Beat Kingz "Michael Jackson" by TOB Band and Show 🎨Featured murals: "Take Me Out to the Go-Go" by Cita Sadeli aka Miss Chelove "The Torch" by Aniekan Udofia "Many Voices, Many Beats, One City" by Cory L. Stowers, Montu Mitchell and Art B.L.O.C. DC "The Resurrection" by Aniekan Udofia "DC Jazz Heroes" by Rose Jaffe and Kate DeCiccio

Witness the unstoppable joy of dancing bomba with sisters Mar and María Cruz. Visit some of the communities where bomba dancing is most vibrant, from the Santurce area of San Juan, to Loíza, the bastion of Afro Puerto Rican culture across the Rio Grande. Meet Jesús Cepeda, a member of the family that has kept this culture alive through the latter half of the 20th century, and community organizer Maricruz Rivera Clementa who runs the Corporación Piñones Se Integra (http://www.copipr.com/) dedicated to preserving Afro Puerto Rican culture and teaching the next generation of bomba dancers. 🔔 Hit that SUBSCRIBE button! 🔔 https://bit.ly/SubscribeKQEDArts 📺 WATCH more videos from our Hispanic Heritage Month Playlist: https://bit.ly/ICCD_HispanicHeritagePlaylist 📺 WATCH this bomba tutorial with Mar Cruz: https://bit.ly/HowToBomba 📖 Chapters: 00:00 Introducing Mar and María Cruz 00:33 What is Bomba? 01:09 Origins of Bomba from Africa 02:18 Fond Memories of Bomba as a Child from Mar Cruz 02:39 Why Santurce and Loíza Are Centers for Bomba 03:21 Taíno Influence on Bomba and Key Instruments 03:45 The Influential Cepeda Family 04:48 Bomba's Made a Comeback Our history. Our culture. Our moves. KQED Arts’ award-winning video series #IfCitiesCouldDance features dancers from across the country representing their city’s signature moves. Directed and Filmed by Armando Aparicio: https://www.armandoaparicio.com Produced and Edited by Charlotte Buchen Khadra 👍🏽 Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kqedarts/ 👍🏽 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kqedarts 👍🏽 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KQEDarts 💃🏽 Featured dancers: Mar Cruz: https://www.instagram.com/sebailabomba/ María Cruz: https://www.instagram.com/sebailabomba/ Dancers of Corporación Piñones Se Integra 🎵 Featured musicians: Los Parranderos de Loíza Jesus, Mario and José Cepeda Majestad Negra Tendencias 🎨Featured murals: “Resiliencia” by Danaé Brissonnet; “Aspirante” by Alejandro Rodriguez; "Salseros" by Jorge Isaac Puerta Strada; Butterfly in Yarn by Christine Schröder (“Stino”) @yarn_artist 📖 Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/ICCDxPR 🎶 Listen to our curated playlist: https://bit.ly/ICCDxPRxMusicPlaylist 🌎 Explore a map of San Juan and neighboring areas: https://bit.ly/ICCDxPRxStoryMap #Bomba #afroborinquen #PuertoRico

Albuquerque’s thriving hip hop and freestyle dance scene is influenced by Indigenous dancers from many tribes, Pueblos and other communities. Meet dancers and couple Anne Pesata (Jicarilla Apache) and Raven Bright (Diné) who describe their New Mexico dance scene as “Indigenous futurism,” and credit their mentor Randy L. Barton, or Randy Boogie, a dancer, DJ and artist (Navajo) for cultivating the unique dance culture. Barton created The Sacred Cypher, an event that highlights how Indigenous art forms connect with hip hop. Watch more Native Dance with If Cities Could Dance: https://youtu.be/0ZQo06NawBc For a full content description visit https://bit.ly/3dwqGCo. 🔔 Hit that SUBSCRIBE button! 🔔 https://bit.ly/SubscribeKQEDArts 👍🏽 Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kqedarts/ 👍🏽 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kqedarts 👍🏽 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KQEDarts 📖​ Chapters: 00:00 Introducing Anne Pesata (Jicarilla Apache) and Raven Bright (Diné) 00:19 Anne and Raven Describe Their Indigenous Futurism Dance 00:53 Albuquerque and the Diverse New Mexico Dance Scene 01:31 Foundations of Freedom Dance Crew 02:16 Anne Pesata, a.k.a. Jicarilla Apache, Background in Dance 03:32 Raven Bright's (Diné) Background in Dance 04:18 Randy L. Barton, or Randy Boogie, Southwest Hip-Hop Icon 04:41 The Sacred Cypher Event Our history. Our culture. Our moves. KQED Arts’ award-winning video series #IfCitiesCouldDance is back for a third season! In each episode, meet dancers from across the country representing their city’s signature moves. Watch a new episode from season three of the video series every other week. 📖 Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/ICCDxABQ 🎶 Listen to our curated playlist: https://bit.ly/ICCDxABQxMusicPlaylist 🌎 Explore a map of Albuquerque: https://bit.ly/ICCDxABQxStoryMap If you liked this episode, we bet you'll also like this one: https://bit.ly/ICCD_PhoenixYT ****** 👍🏽 Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kqedarts/ 👍🏽 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kqedarts 👍🏽 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KQEDarts 👟Featured dancers: Raven Bright Anne Pesata Randy L. Barton Sarah Hogland Gurulé Daniel Xikome Malinalli Hernadez Crystál Zamora Nate Herndon 🎵 Featured music: Randy L. Barton https://www.randylbarton.com/music 🎨Featured murals: Aaron Noble Nancy Young Christian Michael Gallegos #NativeAmerican #hiphop #albuquerque

Meet dancer, choreographer and Youtuber Amit Patel (@Amit Patel) reinventing Bollywood dance, while also creating space for queer expression in the South Asian community and beyond. Fremont, California-based Patel began his Bollywood dance training when he was 10-years-old with Mona Khan Company (@Mona Khan Company), now one of the biggest platforms for Bollywood dance in North America. He performed with Mona Khan's dance troupe for more than a decade, before joining a contemporary dance company and experiencing an awakening. Patel realized he hadn't been able to truly release himself in Bollywood dance performances, in which he was often assigned to traditional masculine roles. He started on a journey to explore movement and create spaces that allowed him to be unapologetically himself as an Indian American gay man. Today, his dance practice includes "Bollywood Heels," a mixture of Kathak gestures (Indian classical dance) and jazz dance performed in 5-inch heels -- and what he calls Indian Contemporary, fusing hip hop, jazz, and ballet with Indian folk and classical dance forms. When Patel taught his first "Bollywood Heels" class in 2016, no one else was offering something like it. Now, he says, students routinely come up to him to express their appreciation for the space he’s created in the South Asian community. “In class I try to make it a point to be like, if the choreography doesn’t resonate, if it’s too feminine, too masculine, change it. It's all about finding your own sense of self, your voice,” he says. Explore “Bollywood Heels” and Indian Contemporary in Fremont, California in this episode of #IfCitiesCouldDance. ⬇ Download full content description here: https://bit.ly/FremontContentDescription ⬇ Download English transcript here: https://bit.ly/ICCDxFremontxTranscript 📌Editor’s note: This episode was filmed under strict guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic. Safety parameters were followed to protect the health of the dancers and video production team. 🔔Hit that SUBSCRIBE button! 🔔 https://bit.ly/SubscribeKQEDArts 📖 Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/ICCDxFremont 🎶 Listen to our curated playlist: https://bit.ly/ICCDxFMTxMusicPlaylist 🌎 Explore our favorite locations in Fremont, CA: https://bit.ly/ICCDxFMTxStoryMap 👟 Featured dancers: Amit Patel Mona Khan Ishika Seth Saffatt Al-Mansoor 🎨 Featured public art: "Acrobats" sculpture by Aristides Burton Demetrios in Fremont, CA 📖 Chapters: 00:00 Explore Bollywood dance with Amit Patel and Mona Khan 00:41 Fremont as a hub for the South Asian communities 01:23 Meet Mona Khan, founder of Mona Khan Company 01:44 Bollywood dance elements as seen in the popular Bollywood films 02:27 Amit Patel's dance journey and traditional gender roles in Bollywood dance 03:54 Bollywood Heels, self-discovery, and coming out 5:50 Amit Patel's influence on the South Asian dance community ****** 👍🏽 Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kqedarts/ 👍🏽 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kqedarts 👍🏽 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KQEDarts #Bollywood #AmitPatel [Editor's correction: This episode includes footage from the 2016 version of 'Umrao Jaan,' not the 1981 version like our video says. The 1981 version can be found here: https://bit.ly/UmraoJaan1981. We send special thanks to viewer Dyutika Pal who caught this! 🙏🏽]

Houston’s zydeco dance scene brings joy and a driving rhythm to partner dancing, and in this episode, we explore the dance’s deep roots in Creole culture and music. What was called La-la in Southeastern Louisiana Creole communities became known as zydeco in Houston with the influence of R & B and the ‘King of Zydeco’, Clifton Chenier. Houston is where zydeco is thriving, evolving and reaching a broader audience, around trail-riding clubs who dance together after their rides to the accordion-driven sounds of zydeco bands with a touch of hip-hop. As infectious as zydeco is, it’s grown popular worldwide, but what hasn't changed is how zydeco brings community together in Houston. EDITOR'S NOTE: This episode was filmed in February of 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic swept through cities in the United States. Houston is currently experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases and we hope the community remains safe at home until it’s time to dance together again. ⬇Download full content description here: https://bit.ly/2E3BYln ⬇Download transcript here: https://bit.ly/3fSvxjk NEW SEASON 3 EPISODES EVERY OTHER TUESDAY! 🔔Hit that SUBSCRIBE button! 🔔 https://bit.ly/SubscribeKQEDArts Our history. Our culture. Our moves. KQED Arts’ award-winning video series #IfCitiesCouldDance is back for a third season! In each episode, meet dancers from across the country representing their city’s signature moves. Watch a new episode from season three of the video series every other week. 📖 Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/ICCDxHOU 🎶 Listen to our curated playlist: https://bit.ly/ICCDxHOUxMusicPlaylist 🌎 Explore a zydeco map of Houston: https://bit.ly/ICCDxHOUxStoryMap ****** 👍🏽 Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kqedarts/ 👍🏽 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kqedarts 👍🏽 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KQEDarts 👟Featured dancers: Karina Houston Cedric "One Step" Jones Stacie Dancey Alexis Jolivette Joseph Norman Jermar Berry, Jr. Jeremy Hawkins 🎵Featured music: Old Time Zydeco by Rusty Metoyer https://rustymetoyer.com/ Ballin' and It is What is Is by Lil’ Nathan and the Zydeco Big Timers www.nathanwilliamsjr.com Love in the Barn and Pull it til it Pops by Step Rideau https://www.steprideau.com/ That L'Argent by Chris Ardoin https://www.flattownmusic.com/artist/... Les Zydecos Sont Pas Salés by Clifton Chenier https://www.downhomemusic.com/product... 🎨Featured murals: "Greetings from Houston" by Daniel Anguilu "Fruits of the Fifth Ward" by Wheatley High School students (with Reginald Adams, the executive director of the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH), overseeing the project) 🔍Featured archival: Excerpts from documentary films: "Dry Wood" and "Hot Pepper" ©1973 Les Blank with Maureen Gosling www.lesblank.com Canray Fontenot and Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival From the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Used courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity. Houston Chronicle James Fraher photographs, from the books Texas Zydeco and Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues by Roger Wood, University of Texas Press. 📖 Chapters: 00:00 What is zydeco? 00:30 Zydeco as a staple of the Creole music and culture 01:03 Zydeco two-step and Louisiana roots of zydeco 01:46 Wilfred Chevis' granddaughter is keeping the zydeco culture in Houston alive 02:33 What does being Creole mean? 02:55 French la-la and Louisiana roots of zydeco 03:32 Houston's Frenchtown neighborhood and its importance to the zydeco culture 04:01 Clifton Chenier, ‘King of Zydeco’, and the shift from la-la to zydeco 04:35 Trailrides as part of the Creole culture 05:05 Houston zydeco scene at night #IfCitiesCouldDance #Zydeco #Creole