What is stepping?
It began with singing. Brothers would gather in the quad and sing. They eventually graduated to dancing and from there stepping. You can go to some yards down south and they call it a “Sing” instead of a “Step-show”. The historical white fraternities started the singing part, but the historical African fraternities took it to another level. Much like we did with basketball and football. We don’t think that any one fraternity can lay claim to stepping, more than likely it evolved. One thing we do know was that the Sigma’s and the Omega’s were the first to do it. Sororities didn’t start stepping until several years after the fraternities. Stepping began with groups of guys singing acappella, and when groups like the Temptations and the Four Tops were popular in the 50’s and 60’s brothers started mimicking their steps. This was how stepping evolved. This is why it is called “Stepping” now. Brothers would try to come up with the best steps while they were singing to please the ladies. If y
