Word: discoed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...money.W. Brian C. Polk ’09RR: What’s your role in “Fable Attraction”?BP: I play a magic mirror name Mira-Mira Ondeewall. She’s been around for a very long time, and basically she looks like a disco ball. She’s really shiny and funny and from the 70s.RR: Didn’t you write the play also?BP: Yeah, I’m the co-author. Kathleen Chen and I, we wrote the script, and then we chose a composer, and then we basically rewrote...
...wave was just one of the ways the audience tried to work off its nervous energy. They danced, they chanted. As disco music played, those seated near the curtained hallway to the back and left of the stage gasped when an elegant black hand briefly parted the curtain. An older black woman in an Obama t-shirt, bright kerchief and big glasses had a view just inside the sanctum; she hopped to her feet and waved her hands like she had just seen Elvis. The hand outside the curtain waved and pointed to her with an ironic, hep-cat flick...
...smoke billows out between two columns and a silhouetted figure is seen holding a keytar. Then the camera turns to a rotating disco ball. You think to yourself, “Have I tuned on VH1 classics?” The fear quickly intensifies seconds later when you realize you’re not watching a Bee Gees video, but rather the new clip for Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction.” Snoop references a ton of 1970s fads throughout the video. He rocks every hairstyle imaginable, from a mullet to an Afro with...
...retired farm animals that Gordón has been collecting from all over rural Spain and Portugal for his little restaurant. After a life of flavor-building labor, they are boarded here until they become sleek and relaxed from eating hay and grain, avoiding heifers, and listening to Latin disco pop. After sending them to that big pasture in the sky, he ages the meat at 32F (0C) for between 40 and 100 days...
...unexpectedly relaxed costume choice for the highly skilled and sensual movements that she executed.The show concluded with an improvisational performance. The program informed the audience that prior to Friday night’s performance, the dancers had not heard the music of this piece. A Cantonese-language version of disco classic “YMCA” poured out of the speakers, and the entire cast began to move. In the beginning, the dancers were focused on their own movements. The result was a mishmash of motions, from slow rolling around on the floor to precise ballet poses. Partway through...