Where We Danced (2013)

Where We Danced is the first in a threepart series that chronicles the evolution of American social dance It tells the story of Americas dance through the lives of the dancers who shaped the art form as well as the places they danced The story begins on the plantations where African and Western European culture collided to create Americas first truly indigenous social dance the cakewalk It continues through to 1930s Harlem showing how dance helped shape popular culture in America and around the world Over the decades dance has set trends in fashion and sexuality giving the youth of the 20th century a voice to define itself from the rigidness of the Victorian era It also gave AfricanAmericans a means of expression when all others had been taken away