Correction.

I've posted hyperlinks to some YouTube step and stroll videos on my website Cocojams.

Since I'm here, let me share my definition of steppin:

African American steppin' is a competitive, showcase performance art form in which groups {or at least two people, traditionally segregated by gender]perform synchronized,percussive foot stomping, [individual] handclapping and body patting {pattin Juba] routines. Chanting is traditionally a part of steppin, but there is less chanting in contemporary stepping than previously.

Each fraternity and sorority has their own distinctive style of steppin. Some fraternities and some sororities step with canes, twirling them, throwing them to others in their group, and dropping them...but that's not part of the routine.

The audience for step shows are very involved. Sitting quietly while the groups step is diffently not part of this performance tradition.

Strollin' {or party walks} is movement performance by fraternities and sororities which is separate from steppin. Strolls are done to recorded R&B, hip-hop music. Groups stroll at parties. They also 'get their stroll on' when they are entering the performance floor for step shows, and when they are leaving the performance floor. All fraternity and sorority members don't step {because it's not easy to do], but most will stroll [because it's just walking to the beat of the song]. Group members show their distinctive hand signal during party walks {strolls] as well as during step performances.

As an aside, in a couple of YouTube videos I saw of strolls, the sorority members were walking in a circle surrounded by a circle of onlookers. It struck me that this tradition could have come from the counterclockwise Shout religious dance tradition that was documented during African American slavery.

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For those who don't want to go to my website, and can access YouTube, here's a couple of video links to steppin and strollin.
{I'll start with a video of an Aka step team, since its the sorority I'm a member of-though I've been inactive for a loooong time}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15cAKtZQFM&NR
Added October 06, 2006 ;From yoshie4u2

"The Ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha at the B The Ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha at the Black Student Union Yard Show Fall 2006"

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[and here is a video of AKA's main competitor's the Deltas {Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.]

Delta Sigma Theta" {Stroll}
Eta Beta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Inc.; Prairie View A&M University

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpdUxebG46M&mode=related&search=

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"Omega Psi Phi", Inc.
Added November 12, 2006; From 1BLAZE954

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-8UyUbyFa8

[The Q's started out as a university armed service/ ROTC like group. You can still see the influence of this by the army fatigue uniforms they sometimes wear, and by the way their step master introduces steps and otherwise acts like a drill team sargent.

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"Step Team"
a very good coed-mostly girls-high school or community step team}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDM_R529UQ4&mode=related&search=
Added April 08, 2006 ;From clonebob