Terminology 

The Dance: The thing itself, the body or the dance you could visit, attended

Playing Out: Playing outside of your normal space 

The Set: The equipment, the sound system 

The Sound: Subjective 

Yassmin is a sound woman, sound has led her down the path of arts. Sound is continuously moving. 

She was born into a sound system and drumming household. Learning through a cultural experience you don’t know is happening. At a younger age we are oblivious to the impact of our current situation, we become swept away by everything. It isn’t until later in life that we can look back and analyse/understand. 

Foster is also interested in the social, political and physical aspects of dance and dance culture. Why do we twist our torso? Why do we move our head and clap our hands? 

 Foster runs the Legs Eleven Sound System 

Within a sound system there is a selector, deejay and mc. The first selects the music that is played, the second plays the music on the turntable and the latter engages with the crowd by talking, chanting etc. 

Legs Eleven is made up of Yassmin and her two sisters, the idea birthed from their fathers sound system. The sisters recognise the handover between their father and them, although they are a female sound system, the influence and knowledge from her father guides them. He has taught them everything about sound, learning through doing.  

Safe Space

Creating a safe space that is warm and inviting ; must have music, food and beverages. David Mancuso said it best “I wanted to create a place in which you could fall asleep and not worry about your wallet being taken”

HOW TO CREATE A SAFE SPACE?

SMALL AXE: LOVERS ROCK

Foster says that the dance in the show isn’t very representative of what she remembers. 

Music doesn’t sound the same to everyone. 

Moving together makes the sound.