Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keshishing said that he in both assistant director and choreographer for the show because "al a certain point, the acting and the panicky combing." He added that the dancing into how is broad-basted drawing on such diverse forms us folk dancing, waltzing and disco...
Originating in the South Bronx in the mid-'70s, rap music is a cultural anthropologist's mother lode. It combines musical influences as disparate as disco, George Clinton funk, conventional R & B and Ennio Morricone scores for Italian westerns, cross-pollinates them with the Jamaican disc jockey's art of "toasting" (talking over the instrumental breaks in records) and a street kid's fondness for boasting, synthesizes the results with some distinctly contemporary audio technology and winds up with a sound that invites deejays at local dance palaces to "scratch" the surface. The deejays...
...gangster." Still, hip hop has been downtown long enough that stylistic confusion like this is a little less frequent. Every Friday night, crews of rappers make the trip from The Bronx to the lower West Side of Manhattan, where they do their stuff at a roller disco called the Roxy. The crowd there is mostly new bohemian types. They watch with the guilty pleasure of anthropologists visiting Soul Train, as rappers pick up on a little new wave style (miniskirts and studs are making a showing in the South Bronx) and make their moves. Downtown, however, there is a palpable...
...Stack-Up," though not as intense an experience as "Treading," is certainly not anti-climactic. Choreographed to music by Earth, Wind and Fire. Two Tons of Fun, Fearless Four, Alphonze Mouson and Grover Washington Jr., this jazzy piece features an ensemble of sixteen dancers discoing their hips to flashy music in flashy colors. Different gangs are quartered off--the punks, the sleazies, and the cools. The dancing here is the main event; the groups are unified internally, and the dancers shift styles with ease as the music alternates between disco and saxophone-blues. Throughout the shifts, there is a constant...
...salsa bands played. Right on cue, 5 million French joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump of disco rhythms. A troupe from the Comédie Française has played in the Paris subways. Still to come are an ambitious new "people's" opera house for the Place de la Bastille, a new ballet school for Marseille and a dance conservatory for Lyon. And, seemingly everywhere...