African Roots
This South African dance tradition influenced the development of stepping.
What is Gumboot Dance?
These organizations helped popularize stepping on college campuses.
What are Black fraternities and sororities?
During the Civil Rights Movement, stepping helped build this among participants.
What is unity?
A performance art using the body to create rhythms through claps, stomps, and chants.
What is STEP?
This U.S. Vice President is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
What is Kamala Harris?
Many African cultures used a communication style where one person leads with a phrase, song, or rhythm and a group responds. This tradition is still seen in stepping today.
What is Call-and-Response
HBCU stands for this.
What is Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
The Civil Rights Movement focused on gaining equal rights for this group.
Who are African Americans?
A sisterhood organization at a college or university.
What is Sorority?
This university is home to several Divine Nine organizations and is known for its stepping culture.
What is Howard University?
How does stepping use call-and-response today?
Through chants, spoken words, rhythmic responses, and team interaction during performances.
This group was founded first in 1906 at Cornell University.
What is Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.?
Name two historical Civil Rights leaders who were members of Divine Nine organizations.
Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Maya Angelou, Kamala Harris, Shirley Chisholm, Coretta Scott King
The process of creating a step routine.
What is choreography?
Stepping combines movement, rhythm, chants, and this body percussion.
What are claps and stomps?
Gumboot dancing was created by miners in this country.
What is South Africa?
This sorority was founded in 1908 at Howard University.
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Why was stepping especially important at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) during and after the Civil Rights Movement?
It helped students celebrate Black culture, build community, develop leadership skills, and express pride in their identity during a time of social change.
The beliefs, traditions, and customs of a group of people.
What is culture?
Which Divine Nine organization was founded most recently in 1963?
What is Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.
African dance traditions were often used to preserve this.
What is culture/history/identity?
Name three Divine Nine organizations.
Any three of the Divine Nine.
Besides entertainment, stepping could be used as a form of this.
What is resistance/protest?
The feeling of belonging and support within a group.
What is community?
Name the nine historically Black fraternities and sororities known collectively as this
What is the Divine Nine?