The Era hosts its first Youth Footwork Festival

We had tryouts for this. It was an opportunity to pay the kids. They’re all being paid like official artists to be a part of this show. We aren’t just teaching them choreography and whatnot.

We found a space and started practicing with them. We scouted about eight kids — 90% of them are girls. Two of them are young guys. We have kids who are learning fashion from Steelo, and there will be a booth at the festival where kids will be printing t-shirts and talking about the experience of how they got into footwork.