How Dance Shaped America (And Vice Versa)

“[Paul] Taylor’s use of everyday steps like skipping and hopping in his choreography is not so very different — though the venues surely are — from James Brown being inspired by the audiences dancing in the aisles at his electrifying concerts. Brown incorporated their moves into his act and took them on tour, serving as ‘the Johnny Appleseed of dance,’ in one biographer’s words.”