Alpha Step Show - Morehouse Campus... Late 80's
earl Hilliard Jr, Jul 7, 2016
This is an Alpha Rho Chapter Step Show from Morehouse's
Campus I shot, from either 1987 or 1988.
This was a few years before I myself crossed the Burning Sands of Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Please excuse
the quality of the video, this was shot decades ago on the old VHS(c) medium,
by a then novice videographer!
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"Floor rolls" ("floor ripples") are performed from 2:31 to around 3:09 in this video.
imwithstupidx2, Dec 17, 2007
GphiG steps in school daze
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Here are two comments from this YouTube video:
Mehrunissah93, 2013
So many real fraternities aren't this creative. This is my
favorite scene of the whole movie.
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Rod Cooper, 2018
“They actually got this from real BGLO fraternities.."
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"Gamma Phi Gamma" ("GPhiG") is a fictitious Black Greek Letter Organization that was created for this movie.
Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfPc8Ia7E20&ab_channel=AllenC.Johnson for another clip from the movie School Daze that shows members of Alpha Phi Alpha performing that fraternity's signature chant "Ice Ice Baby".
2010 CIAA Cheerleading Exhibition-VSU 'Woo Woos'
FSU2Smoov, Mar 16, 2010
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The "floor roll" ("floor ripple") is performed around 1:59 to 2:18.
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancoocjams post provides video documentation of the movement I refer to as a "floor rolls" or “floor ripples" in three YouTube videos.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are featured in this post and thanks
to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to those who filmed these
embedded videos and thanks their publishers on YouTube.
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Click the tags below for other pancocojams posts on Alpha
Phi Alpha and other historically Black Greek letter fraternities, VSU Woo Woo
and other stomp and shake cheerleaders, and School Daze and other African
American movies.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/01/alpha-kappa-alpha-sorority-1987-step.html for a closely related pancocojams post entitled "Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority - 1987 Step Show At Howard University, (Part I & Part II videos & comments)".
In the context of that video, a "ripple" is a movement that is started at one end of a (usually vertical) line and is then performed rapidly by each person in the line.
The ripples in that video begins around 5:39 and continues to around 5:59.
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PLEASE HELP DOCUMENT THIS CULTURAL PERFORMANCE
I'm interested in learning about this acrobatic move that I
refer to as "floor rolls” or “floor ripples". For instance, what is the actual name/s for this move? Is the late 1980s the earliest documented use of this move by historically Black Greek letter fraternities? Which fraternities do this move? Do any historically Black Greek letter sororities do this move?
Please share information and links to YouTube videos in the comment section below. Thanks!
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Notice that the late 1980s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity step show that is showcased in this pancocojams post takes place outdoors in the middle of a circle that is created by onlookers.
ReplyDeleteThe other two performances take place indoors in a gymnasium.
I believe that most historically Black Greek letter organization step shows nowadays occur indoors on an auditorium stage while those organizations' strolls usually occur outdoor.
I'm not sure whether audiences for these events usually encircle the performers like they did in that late 1980s video, or whether audiences face the performers standing in rows as is standard in mainstream American shows.