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Description: “Powdered Footwork: “D”-cyphering Detroit Jit” presents vibrant vignettes from my ethnographic engagement with Detroit’s little-known street dance form Jit, which emerged in the 1970s when Detroit’s automobile industry was beginning to decline. This film is situated at weekly cypher sessions in Detroit, most commonly known as “the spot.” As a researcher/participant/observer, the embodied knowledge gained from learning how to Jit at the cypher brought me closer to understanding th
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