By the 1990s, the center of the house music and dance industry had shifted from Chicago to New York. From there it was exported to youth culture scenes in most of the major cities of Europe and Asia. “Although there was a strong house music scene throughout the ’90s,” Freeman says, “it was a bit on and off. It wasn’t consistent. But by about 2001, you began to see a real surge in interest in both the music production and the dance form.

Even though it’s been around for 20 years, it’s really been in the last four years that enthusiasm for house dance has grown tremendously. Recently there was an international house dance competition in France, and it took place in a stadium that held 6,000 people.