In August 2005, inspired by Harry Smith’s anthology of American Folk Music, London DJ Alex Reuben set out on the American road, fulfilling a lifelong dream to document the social dance of southern USA. His childhood inspiration to dance, had been the Music of New Orleans and artist, Fats Domino. Reuben travelled from Kentucky, to North Carolina and onto Menphis, Mississippi and Tennessee. Huricane Katrina halted his journey towards Fats and Louisiana. The result is a dance road movie that gives insights into lesser-known forms of American dance culture and extrodinary Americans and their lives. Set against the US federal governments’ woeful response to the devastation left by hurricane Katrina, at a time when Americans were also questioning their position on the war in Iraq, we explore Appalacian Clogging, Hip-Hop, African American Stepping, Memphis Marching Bands, Mississippi Fife and Drum, Cajun and Zydeco.

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