Category Archives: Dance Revolution

Why Dance

I have been out swinging the past two nights, as has much of New York — it is Dawn Hampton’s birthday, and there’s been four days of swing at various venues around the city. Everyone goes, because everyone knows Dawn. She’s one of these fixtures (that word is wrong — you’ve never seen a woman […]

Dance Dance Epiphany

I was organizing my bookmarks today and rediscovered a page called Team Gwailo. I had to load it to remind myself what it was. This is what it was: a Dance Dance Revolution devotee page. As far as I can tell Dance Dance Revolution and its peers are what Nintendo wishes it had come up […]

Bhangra On the Eve Of Napster's Demise (draft)

In my last year of high school a heartthrobby brown-eyed boy named Nil took the stage at the student-run after-hours talent show — a notoriously tough venue — and performed a dance routine which had won him the Mr. India California title that year. The moves looked like exaggerated hip hop about eight years out […]

Sandra Cameronites And The Big Lindy Goodbye

I returned last night to the swing scene after more than three months’ absence (I’m not counting the lovely evening I had at the Supper Club with the Squirrel Nut Zippers and the cute Canadian grad student). The venue was St. Jean Baptiste’s Church at 76th and Lexington, not a bad scene all told. The […]