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What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. It's just a matter of finding what we're here to fulfill or execute. That's genius to me.

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I'm just blessed, man. I'm just happy to share my art form with everyone. That's cool.

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I see myself helping the next generation of dancers who come along, helping them to keep the dance focused, so we don't get into a position where they're saying in 2050, or whatever, that around 2001 or 2002 or something the dance died.

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My mom couldn't afford dance shoes, so she put me in these old cowboy boots with a hard bottom so I could get some sound out. I used them for seven months. When I finally got real tap shoes, I was nervous. I kept moving my feet, thinking, 'Oh, so this is how it's supposed to sound.'

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My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it's flight time. I'm just floatin' on that stage.

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I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet.

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La Cave was a great platform for me to learn and be able to listen in on conversations and just get a lot of notes and teachings from those older guys.

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I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

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I feel it's my duty, my job, now to allow people to hear the dance to different genres of music, to ensure audiences have the chance to listen to tap dancing up against all these other styles.

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I try new stuff every time I perform. I have steps I do that I know are definite, and stuff I can make up right then and there and then forget.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: November 19th, 1973

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