:06:02
We're gonna be smooth...
:06:03
we're gonna be sneaky,
we're gonna be quiet...
:06:06
when we do a foxtrot. Okay?
:06:08
Let's get in our imaginary ghost position,
dance position.
:06:12
And without touching anyone,
skate across the floor.
:06:15
Ready, go. Skate, skate...
:06:18
The children and most of the people
who live here in Washington Heights...
:06:21
come from Dominican Republic.
:06:23
There are a large, large percentage
of single-parent families.
:06:27
There are many children being raised
by grandparents, aunts, uncles.
:06:31
Many situations where
more than one family lives in a home.
:06:35
So, the children don't have much advantage.
:06:37
There's 97% poverty rate in the school...
:06:39
so the children come to school with issues.
:06:41
Here we go.
:06:46
Five, six, seven, go.
:06:49
Slow, slow...
:06:51
quick, quick, slow, slow, away.
:06:55
Slow, slow...
:06:57
Children in a middle-class neighborhood...
:06:58
have many more advantages.
:06:59
If they want to go to dancing school,
they can go to dancing school.
:07:02
They want to take piano lessons,
they can take piano lessons.
:07:05
'Cause their parents can afford it.
:07:07
This program is free for the kids.
:07:11
So, they have the advantage
of learning something new...
:07:14
of perfecting it, and of being successful.
:07:17
And they'll compete
because they want to win.
:07:20
So, ladies and gentlemen,
when I said it's like a merengue step...
:07:23
what I mean is just that you're going
side together like the merengue.
:07:26
But you don't have to move
your hips like the merengue, okay?
:07:30
I know, sometimes we just can't help it.
:07:32
Let's do a quick merengue.
:07:34
- Yeah!
- All right, here we go. Dance position.
:07:39
Five, six, five, six, seven, eight.
:07:57
What's your favorite dance?
:07:58
My favorite dance is the merengue.
It's mad hot.