The 2010 Stepshow, hosted by the Black Greek Council, promises to deliver excit­ing music and unbe­liev­able moves.

Step danc­ing is a phe­nom­e­non that is tak­ing the nation by storm.

Brandon Cole, Stepshow chair and FSU senior in the HVACR pro­gram, is excited for the event.

“Last year, we had over 200 peo­ple attend,” said Cole. “This year, we’re hop­ing to get at least 300 peo­ple in the audience.”

Participants will com­pete in teams; this year, there are a total of seven teams competing.

Travis “Skittles” Konieczny, fresh­man in the mar­ket­ing pro­gram, thinks step­ping is an intense form of dance.

“Those moves are way too advanced for me,” said Konieczny. “Step dancers have some crazy skills.”

According to cbsnews​.com, step­ping is a his­tor­i­cal tra­di­tion in black fra­ter­ni­ties and soror­i­ties and is used to build unity within the group. Some step moves are thought to orig­i­nate from the Welly dance, which is a stomp that South African labor­ers would do in Wellington boots. This dance has been mod­i­fied into what we know today as stepping.

“Stepping is a tra­di­tion and an art,” said Keith Dos Reis, “Stomp the Yard” pro­moter. “[It is a] tra­di­tion for our fra­ter­ni­ties and soror­i­ties, and an art form by the way we do it.”

The 2010 Stepshow will take place on Saturday, May 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. in Williams Auditorium. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets can be pur­chased at the Williams Box Office for $10. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Brandon Cole at b_cole_228@yahoo.com or at 313−622−1265. n