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Did you break up in the '40s?
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What do you do now? What will you dance?
What do you think of today's dances?
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Why did you accept to come to this show?
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- Why tap?
- An intelligent question.
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It's high time to talk seriously about tap.
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Tap isn't just a dance.
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It's something more... more...
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Explain!
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Me too I think that tap is something...
something... more!
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Yes, something more.
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Is it clear?
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What do you mean?
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- Tap wasn't a dance.
- What was it?
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The black slaves' morse code,
some kind of wireless telegraph.
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Another lie?
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In cotton fiels black slaves
were not allowed to talk.
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If they were caught talking,
the warden...
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would lash them.
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So...
what would the black slave do?
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He would communicate
with his workmate this way.
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"Beware, the warden!"
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"I've got a knife"
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"Let's kill him."
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Or.
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"I love you."
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"I love you too"
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Very interesting!
A language of love and death!
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Who did you learn it from?