the intensity of it is very visceral, very immediate, the percussion, and everyone relates to protection. i created this work that has to do is some sense of competition and camaraderie and i wanted it to be four men. i wanted the skirts that almost like you go out fits in a way. i also was saying something about our masculine and feminine side and something about ritual. -- i wanted the skirts that almost were like judo in a way. watching people screaming the audits is not a bad thing. tavis: when you make reference to are massed in and feminine side, when you were growing up in the church choir singing soprano as you did, and you are dancing, does your man could get question in your neighborhood? >> yes, it did. many times. -- does your manhood get questioned in your neighborhood? >> yes, it did. i would have my dancing shoes, i had the tights, all of that, and i had a hammer. [laughter] if i had a hammer. i was teased and taunted a little bit. i figured, this is not just for nails. i never had to use my hammer. i forgot the hammer was in their. it was questioned but i came from a back

the audience is asked to come into this dialogue. [driving string and percussion♪ (woman) she didn't even get to shut the door. we can't leave here without talking about one of your most emotional works, still here. it--it provoked a firestorm in some quarters. (jones) yes, it did. and i have to believe that it provoked a powerful reaction from the audiences and from the participants. mm-hmm. how do you feel about that work today? hmm. i wouldn't make it now. i wouldn't make it now. it was a work that, as i said about uncle tom's cabin, it was so ambitious that it could not succeed, but it didn't fail. and when i look at the dance material in it, there's good dance material in it. when i look at the work that gretchen bender did, i think there was something very inspired. she was feeling something. i don't know if it all works, but it works well enough that i stand by it. it was a piece the time needed. and for those who have not seen it, they incorporated video of--of people-- survival workshops with-- that were people living with or having lived with a life-thre

the vietnamese association. he was musically inclined and played percussion in middle school. we're told he was passionate about dancing and spoke about it at a gathering referred to hip hop 101. >> hip hop cannot be contained. it's a way of life and for many it's a way of fighting a stride. >> every time you saw him he had a big smile on his face and a lot of energy. >> reporter: lew was a teachers' assistant for one semester. >> i find it hard to deal with because all the horrible things happening in afghanistan are happening to our young children. >> reporter: lew wrote, life is like a dance. sometimes you'll step on some toes. live in santa clara, lloyd lacuesta. >>> more details now on u.s. casualties in afghanistan. the pentagon says two other americans were killed today. their names have not yet been revealed. they were shot today at a compound in the north. the gunman escaped. the americans were training afghan security forces. the u.s. and nato are due to transfer power to the afghans in july. >>> the coroner today identified a pilot who died yet in a small plane cras

the vietnamese association. he was musically inclined and played percussion in middle school. we're told he was passionate about dancing and spoke about it at a gathering referred to hip hop 101. >> hip hop cannot be contained. it's a way of life and for many it's a way of fighting a stride. >> every time you saw him he had a big smile on his face and a lot of energy. >> reporter: lew was a teachers' assistant for one semester. >> i find it hard to deal with because all the horrible things happening in afghanistan are happening to our young children. >> reporter: lew wrote, life is like a dance. sometimes you'll step on some toes. live in santa clara, lloyd lacuesta. >>> more details now on u.s. casualties in afghanistan. the pentagon says two other americans were killed today. their names have not yet been revealed. they were shot today at a compound in the north. the gunman escaped. the americans were training afghan security forces. the u.s. and nato are due to transfer power to the afghans in july. >>> the coroner today identified a pilot who died yet in a small plane cras

percussion. >> everybody's background is different. we have dancers, drummers some both. some none. mine is playing the drums for 20 years.body's background is different. it's what makes the show work. everybody is different. we collect from each other. it's always a new experience on the stage. >> we love it. stomp is at the san jose center starting tonight. it's running until sunday. thank you for joining us. christina, i don't know if you can follow that one up. a little tap. >> no, very anticlimatic. i forgot where i was for a moment. that was fantastic. you can catch them tonight. today, no matter where you are stomping off to, you need a jacket. 45 in san jose. temperatures as we head throughout the afternoon are going to be warmer than where we ended up yesterday. that's good news if you are looking for the sunshine today, we'll have no shortage of that. temps in the upper 60s inland. low 60s along the peninsula. san francisco 63 degrees today. then we have a weather maker on the way. a system of low pressure moves into the area tomorrow. we are concerned about two things when it comes to the next system. the poten

the ndp rising against him? why are there levels rising and his are either -- >> i do not think that they're running a bad campaign, but they are on a percussion of thin air. there's nothing to sustain it. frankly, when i look of those ads and i listen to what we have been saying, the liberals were always the big goose of federal politics and both of them are plucking it in front of our rise. it does not matter if we say that they were both so bad. in many regions of the country, there is no liberal and a structure. it is not going to win many. not going to happen. >> where are you on this question are >> i think we might be in to the territories as a self-fulfilling prophecy. i think the liberals have a good couple of two weeks. but as much as we talk about the commitment and the motivation of the conservative base, there is a very committed and that as conservative base out there. it is looking for a home and away the stop for those who believe the conservative government is bad government. if it looks like the liberals are on the wane, that will look for someplace else. you may have this notion that nothing is happening with ignatieff, we b