Dance is a family affair for Starinah “Star” Dixon. Her mother, two brothers, and multiple cousins are all practitioners. How’d that happen? “My grandma put my brothers and all my older cousins in class when they were young.” They did “all kinds of dance” at the Better Boys Foundation in North Lawndale, where Dixon grew up.
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“Pretty much when I started walking, Bril was like, ‘Do this shuffle,’” Dixon says. She stands on one foot and flaps at the floor with the other to illustrate. She must have been a talented toddler. “At the grocery store—where my mom would stay for like 50 years—my brother would improv, then tell me to go. So improv has never been a problem for me.” Dixon attributes her hard-hitting style to being taught by men.
“But all of a sudden, last year, stuff started flying in.”
WoodworksFri 10/26, 7:30 PM, Harold Washington Cultural Center, 4701 S. Martin Luther King Dr., 773-604-1899, maddrhythms.com, $20-$60.
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