Chicago Footwork: A Lightning-Fast Dance of Resistance | If Cities Could Dance

[@Monaedeezy]

Please pass it down to the next generation because this is more than a street dance. It’s ancestral spirit within. Genetic memory reborn 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸.

[@soulavenue8]

🙏🏽💪🏽🔥🔥🔥

[@1219monique]

💯

[@appliancedude63]

You see it all over the world with African people.

[@samtorres4996]

I think it's just goofy

[@Monaedeezy]

@@samtorres4996 funny, that’s what yo mamma said when she first saw you.

[@TheTechCguy]

First footwork video I saw: that one old one of Micheal Myers in downtown Chicago.

[@KingTae24]

TheTechCguy yeah lol u just brought back memories 😂😂😂

[@Calxmity]

😭😭😭

[@harrischannel3321]

Downtown Chicago? Try the alley! That’s the original one haha

[@VisionaryMedia24]

Do you guys think people would be interested in seeing Chicago footwork Documentary?

[@msjuju4416]

I wish if people had beef with each other they just do a footwork battle instead of killing each other mannnn that would be love i love my city i just hate all this killing because we have a beautiful city being from the westside and living on the southside over east and up north our city the shit...

[@ultraintuitive8774]

We used to in the 80s but guns and drugs came and that stopped.

[@bashkillszombies]

@@ultraintuitive8774 The 80's was actually the peak of violent crime in the USA, especially black on black violence.

[@LuvSol427]

How can I love a city I've never really been too. Something special about Chicago... from the long history of singers to now holding onto the native footwork! I'm just finding out about the footwork and I'm in awe! ❤❤❤✨ it!

[@kirklandau2826]

Check out the album “Dark Energy” by the brilliant Black Female electronics producer *Jlin*... she transformed the musical genre of footwork (the unique rhythms and fast-paced sonic barrages that the dancers of footwork dance to) into a sort of “high art” and experimental electronic music that becomes a kind of sophisticated, radical Afrofuturist-sounding new avant-garde. It’s a great musical masterpiece and an important cultural landmark of the past decade, pretty visionary and powerful stuff (as in accordance with the title of the album haha). It’s all very postmodern in a sense, as well as militant/revolutionary in spirit, with occult, mystical, and sociocultural themes and energies and aesthetics all interwoven masterful into this hyperkinetic symphony of both beautiful and chaotic/dissonant/neurotic sounds... as such it connects the Black experience to the broader phenomena/paradigms of globalism and the anguish of postindustrial and materialistic and commercialistic and digital/virtual/artificial society in general. It’s equally music for the streets of Chicago, the industrial factory landscape of Indiana where Jlin hails from, and the MoMA. These disparate worlds collide and clash and yet find a central unity in a higher alchemical synthesis that point towards the mysteries and joys and agonies of the total, fundamental human experience as rendered in the present day world.

[@LuvSol427]

The Sister's in this is sooo talented. ❤❤❤✨ this!

[@QueenSuperJ]

I LOVE my City! #chicagoforever #footwork

[@houseofmatrix6174]

As Black people we really turn our pain into art

[@LuvSol427]

It's magic!

[@wallacegentry4085]

Why they are feared by all on this planet. Racism is nothing short of fear. What I would like to see is more business owners, mathematicians, and engineers. The music and sports are enjoyed, but do more......

[@houseofmatrix6174]

@@LuvSol427 factz

[@houseofmatrix6174]

@@wallacegentry4085 i agree I defintely want to expand, their are a lot black business but we need do more

[@kirklandau2826]

Well that’s true of any people isn’t it? That’s a universal feature of art across the board it seems. But I think I get what you’re saying - you’re talking about the unique Black experience of the whole Diaspora and slavery and racist oppression and all of that... yet the unique and unexpectedly novel or even counterintuitive ways that Black art forms, especially in the Americas, have in part sublimated that collective ancestral (and even ongoing) experience in a way that’s both progressive and simultaneously a return to cultural roots, finding ways to rediscover and reinvent that which has been nearly lost into a completely foreign (Western and European-based societal) context, rendered anew in a way which defiantly expresses the struggle for ongoing survival, expression of self as not merely an individual endeavor but also a collective, mythic epos of a people horribly misplaced, mistreated, and shunned for so long, yet finding strength in knowledgeably/intuitively embracing one’s own inner identity as a person of African and Diasporic heritage.

[@ihexxedyou]

I’m from Chicago and still can’t footwurk

[@KingTae24]

Facts I gotta start dancing again 😂

[@M3Niki]

Me either😂🤦🏾‍♀️

[@ERGSEG]

I was great at as a kid. I can’t do it anymore tho. 🥴😩

[@THEHAV-KNOTTZ]

🤷‍♂️ME NEITHER....

[@jslack8973]

1:06 that’s how I feel about New Orleans Bounce. It’s true. Roots never lie

[@kqedarts]

We've produced an episode in New Orleans about second line dance and culture, but haven't featured Bounce. Who are your favorite NOLA bounce artists?

[@sydmilano_]

myy city. im on this dance team nd we b td ofn

[@k2mulaaa506]

My cousin on this dance team I swear they lit

[@MegaCassie83]

🤍❤💛🖤🔥💨🪶 Thank you for continuing this dance. As a Millennial to see Gen Z continue this fills my heart with joy.

[@kingrick207]

Lil homies at the End Tho ..Bang! Fire 2cold

[@kqedarts]

They're incredible young dancers! Thanks for watching :)

[@alexdrake9629]

Those are my kids thank you bro

[@kingrick207]

💯💯YoungKings

[@MrEOM41]

This dance style was used in that Missy Elliot video I believe, Chi town has so much influence on dance and music.

[@views3313]

Yup yup, in that "Lose control" video.

[@JabrenHarris98]

Just cause missy used it once in her vid don’t mean that y’all dance is so much influence on dance and music 😂😂

[@ERGSEG]

@@JabrenHarris98 tell this to the people in Japan who do their own Footwork and Juke challenges and conventions. 🙄

[@JabrenHarris98]

@@ERGSEG 😂😂😂 stop wellin

[@BigKeesh32]

PERIODT like people need to give my city it’s props cause WE LIT 🔥 AND WE GOT IT‼️

[@414MrMilwaukee]

The chi got so much talent!!

[@nickdrexler-art]

cool spotlight on some great music and dance!

[@kqedarts]

Thanks for watching!

[@marketingempire8925]

Chicago Stand UP ! LOVE FOOTWORK 💗

[@chadwicklockharte5035]

I've been a fan of footwurk since '04. It's 2019 and i still love footwurk. I just wish that the people of Chicago as a UNIFIED PEOPLE bring the culture to the forefront before you teach it to others and they market it as their own. It could be very profitable to the Chicago area alone.

[@Monaedeezy]

Chadwick Lockharte agreed.

[@SholomonSun1342]

@@Monaedeezy interesting enough I'm not even from chicago but my love for the culture and the love I have for my people I just want us to win. To see our people do something like this and be so marvelous at it.....the skys the limit for my people in Chicago. God bless the tribe of Judah in all that he does.

[@soulavenue8]

Agreed!!

[@woegarden]

if something brings so many people joy and happiness and a sense of community why not share it?

[@Ebizzill]

waiiiiiiiiiiiiiitaminute!!! was this the famous dance featured in Missy Eliot's loose control????

[@bronxborn70]

Sure is! 😁

[@Bingbangxox]

Omg I just realized that

[@alashaconner2543]

Hands down Chi-Town we the best‼️PERIOD

[@theoko0707]

Beautiful, floating quality.

[@fnsilly8983]

in the 90's most black girls I knew was very skilled at footwork.I left in chicago '99

[@blackscreen4362]

My uncle use to footwork when I use to live in Chicago LOL

[@sydmilano_]

yesssuh , I’m from bronzeville/ grand blvd

[@MaiyaCasiano1]

If you're not from Chicago and never seen this I swear it looks like you're just doing anything with your feet. But this is interesting

[@kirklandau2826]

So it’s a very specific kind of pattern/routine? If so how would you describe the essence or meaning of that, if possible?

[@Shugah6262]

I Love My City Da Windy City Chi 💋FootWork & Being In Dance Groups Kept Me Out Of Dangerous Places & Deadly Situations 💪🏾🙌🏾😍💜💜💜💜#Chi-TownBabii

[@kqedarts]

Thanks for watching!

[@littlemomma6363]

👌 I'm bored so I'm going to start practicing. If I break my ankles I'm going to be sooooo mad. FrFr

[@reverseetc]

Well done!

[@clarencec9350]

I love diamond 💎

[@kqedarts]

We do too! Thanks for watching.

[@ttke39]

i grew up in chicago and indianapolis the STRUGGLE is real Hard Times

[@msd7514]

I'm from Logan square I love my hometown

[@bykai6650]

Period fHAmily ❤️💛

[@kernelpanic8640]

Make a tracklist please, dj/producer work hard for find new things. Respect all. Rip Dj Rashad

[@kqedarts]

Hey, Kernel Panic! Thanks for checking out our video. We used the following tracks: Block Party (No Vocal Version) and My Face Is Numb (No Vocal Version) by Nathan Harrison Rightnour & Dan Edward Apke, WTF You Here For (Instrumental) by TekLife/DJ Taye, and Snare Fanfare (Original) by Karlis Griffin aka DJ Diamond.

[@woegarden]

@@kqedarts good on you for crediting when asked. that should probs go in the description

[@VegSocialist]

Footwork isn't just a reaction to opression and struggle, it's an art form.

[@mansion2814]

I’ve always wanted to learn footwork professionally

[@kingofkingshadow2591]

Omg y'all kill it

[@kqedarts]

Thanks for watching!

[@kingofkingshadow2591]

Np

[@bluproductions71]

Find me on all social media by searching #WhoIsChiBlu

[@ashleywesley4688]

Ifw Diamond heavily she used to work at Abbot 💙🤞🏽💯

[@narcblaqkout6649]

How can I get in touch with someone to do some choreography for me? I'm from Chicago originally.

[@edwardbinns6323]

I grew up on Footwork dance

[@ComedianErnell]

Nice i need to get down with that!!..💯

[@PamelaJones-hh2hp]

My daughter is performing in a dance troupe, her song is Missy Elliots loose control. I went to look at the song and I see the video. They are literally doing Chicago footwork at the beginning. Lol #Chitownstandup

[@ERGSEG]

“Chicago don’t get enough credit.” That’s right. Chicago creates, others copy and then in turn say Chicago copied them. 🙄

[@BigKeesh32]

Exactly ‼️🌆🌃

[@Monaedeezy]

Facts

[@DLYChicago]

What is the difference between footwork, steppin', and cutting shapes? They seem similar to me; variations of the same thing.

[@_Chicagosfinest]

I love it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@kristinadiana1006]

I just moved to Chicago! Is there a studio where I can learn this:)

[@LeathaFace84]

White ppl trying to steal this now calling it the shuffle fucking hilarious 🤣 !!! Chi town!!

[@TheYoungSavage]

Ayyyye 🙌🏾

[@r-casharellidenrodevenopai2079]

Without footworking there want be no chicago straight like that

[@Lisawwwww-n1j]

Iman Shumpert brought me here. 🔥💯👊

[@Veneziamore]

0:12 is not epilepsy safe

[@christiandior45]

Yesssss

[@dehjhunaeday5743]

Ayyyyyye 290/94 shit💪🏾

[@peopleflavor9180]

This is fucking beautiful.

[@CopperJedi]

It's an Indian dance... believe me, we dem people

[@erikkun4571]

What s the tracklist on this?

[@avaerage5930]

Omg Baltimore does a lot of foot working but it’s a little more different.

[@kqedarts]

Hi and thank you for watching! We did a video about Baltimore footwork styles last year: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmrJn3aQntx4npY

[@godspeed3463]

Yo they was on my corner king dr my boi 65th

[@agogefoundationrepair]

Music make you loose control

[@rayharris7867]

I feel like a foreigner never knew how to foot work born and raised

[@ReginaBNLuv]

I’m born and raised in Chicago & I can’t footwork or step😩

[@bashkillszombies]

I'm not an American, but I am very curious. Who do you think makes your living conditions "oppressive" exactly?

[@Flashback_Jack]

Jit?

[@gentium3210]

Just like Ruby Blue

[@farhayeasmin769]

Is this chicago footwork?

[@cappsginny699]

Not enough of Footworking was shown in this video!

[@RampageYI]

When it's in slow motion it doesn't have the same effect.

[@guapodel]

Diamond twinkle toes

[@ChicagoBornPilsenBred21]

✶ ✶ ✶ ✶Chi-Town All Day Everyday Till The Dying Day✶ ✶ ✶ ✶

[@luccib7225]

Would this be like Detroit jit dancing they been doing since the 70s 🤔

[@Monaedeezy]

Yes, you know Chicago and Detroit are sister cities. Techno vs House. Jit vs footwork. ❤️❤️

[@blacknproud3886]

Did Miami invent the bop?

[@LifewithAngie_]

No Chicago did

[@Itsyagirlbigtay]

Lmaooooo nah.

[@blacknproud3886]

Ok just checkin bcuz its miami and memphis people saying they created it. So which side of chi does it best lol.

[@Itsyagirlbigtay]

@@blacknproud3886 SOUTHSIDE of course💪🏾😏

[@blacknproud3886]

Taylor ok. I got fam on southside and out west so Shoutout to the south! Yall stay safe and keep boppin alive..

[@salvadorochoa3954]

Are there a lot of ants on the floor?

[@TishBaileyMusic]

I love this but twll the edito slow mo and footwork do not mix. To appreciate footwork. The speed and skill send the message. Walternate reality for videography. Thats my personal opinion but its amazing none the less.

[@NeoAxiom]

Sooooo Futsal Shuffle?

[@tyzac17]

No.....

[@waningmoons]

???

[@MyoniePayton]

This vid was hella short compared to the others and when I consider all the footwork dance teams and competitions that still go on, this vid is a disservice to the art, history and continued culture of footwork and Black folks in Chicago. Almost seems like y’all were forced to showcase it and just slapped this snippet together. Slow motion shouldn’t be used when showing footwork either.

[@eltae5551]

Alot of other people footwork turn into sum Jersey shit

[@cashdagoer]

Smashin roaches or sum🤷🏽‍♂️🏌️‍♂️

[@issacmaltz4191]

we are about to release a new song called footwork on alestergivens.com check it out launch is this Wednesday

[@snarevox]

1 second ago old gurl must not be doin too much footworkin cuz she got a long way to go to melt them thighs down.. n dude came off gatekeepy af. whatever

[@RoKa_Style7]

i need trnslt(Перевод бл*ть). It's 11/9

[@jahsonf.635]

So you take a dance about speed and do a bunch of slow motion shots..... FAIL! Do better

[@vanderpi9518]

Lol this is basically kuduro,just look up for kuduro dances in KZbin Angolanan Dance

[@kennyb1588]

@@Monaedeezy they literally said in the video that’s it’s inspired by African dance

[@kennyb1588]

@@Monaedeezy even by your definition you’re admitting that the dance has African influence maybe not this specific dance that op is talking about but even the people in the video said the dance has roots in African dance one way or another

[@kennyb1588]

@@Monaedeezy no one said it was an African dance they said it had influence from African dance Op is just saying the movements are similar to a dance from Angola not that this is the Angolan dance

[@lamusicsoundcalifornia34]

Ya'll forgot who started Chicago Footwork... kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3m4c6hqmZuabpY

[@drewskiielbori6872]

Dis truly Baltimore club music shit , da sponge bob or rockin off

[@ERGSEG]

No the hell it ain’t. Juke music started in Chicago in the mid 80s. Originally named Ghetto house. Baltimore and Jersey copied Juke. At the very least, juke pre dates whatever the hell Baltimore and Jersey call themselves doing. The fact y’all call it “spongebob” proves how recent it is for y’all. Chicago been doing this shit for decades.

[@BigKeesh32]

@@ERGSEG Exactly 🌇🌃 CHITOWN ‼️

[@jessolagunle]

@@ERGSEG folks always stealing shit from Chicago and then say we copy them smh 😂😂 can’t make this up.

[@muslim7243]

@Adam Ronel footworking came from a mixture of Chicago’s Stepping and House Dancing coming together which became Juke 💯

[@muslim7243]

@Adam Ronel it’s the truth! Who else’s had a form of couple dancing that could match Chicago’s stepping interms of footwork after The Bop faded?

[@spoonbred]

Dodging bullets makes you do that...

[@ultraintuitive8774]

Tell me you're from Chicago without saying you're from Chicago ❤❤❤

[@chicagonosewipers.3309]

Remember 80s ,don't remember when it started, footworklookslikeyourgling.eebonics slow. Other city 6