The News Review:
- Break dancing is so gay.(Curvatures)
- Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party
- A Twist in Time; Spreading like wildfire from the tiny dance floor of…
Break dancing is so gay.(Curvatures)
Free with registration – Curve – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 1, 2007
(Curvatures) If you’re one of those people who thinks break dancing went the way of parachute pants Flock of Seagulls records and Molly Ringwald movies 23-year-old Seattle resident Jenna Hikida has news for you: Not only is breakin’ alive and well but after all these years it’s finally come out of the closet. Hikida who has been breakin’ for over seven years recently unleashed Breakin’ ut a series of weekly one-hour break dancing classes for queer b-girl and b-boy fans and wannabes.
Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party
Taipei Times – Nov 1, 2007
But it doesn’t add much to the experience because the Wii’s motion-sensitive controllers are used to capture only basic left and right movements. The single-player Groove Circuit mode plops a competitor in a series of discos where they must outperform computer dancers to advance. Workout mode encourages gamers to – horror of horrors – break a sweat by dancing until a certain number of calories are burned. R acing games typically fall in three camps – arcade simulation and those like the Project Gotham series that try to straddle the line between the two.
A Twist in Time; Spreading like wildfire from the tiny dance floor of…
Free with registration – Vanity Fair – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 1, 2007
It was in 1960 that R&B-er Hank Ballard recorded a number called “The Twist” after seeing black teenagers churning away on Baltimore’s Buddy Deane Show (the program immortalized in Hairspray as The Corny Collins Show by Baltimore’s patron saint of bad taste writer-director-raconteur John Waters). The ditty didn’t do much until it was faithfully re-recorded by Chubby Checker his name a playful nod to Fats Domino and given the big push on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. With his beaming smile booming optimism and teddy-bear huggability Chubby Checker was the perfect racial-crossover ambassador making the dance acceptable for Dick Clark’s faithful assembly of wholesome white teenagers out there in Archie Comics land. But make no mistake even milked down the Twist flicked a switch on the body electric. The unlikely Chubby Checker was the great emancipator of the uptight American groin according to an even more unlikely analyst former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver who proclaimed in his memoir Soul on Ice “It was Chubby Checker’s mission bearing the Twist as good news to teach the whites whom history had taught to forget how to shake their asses again. ” Shake them they did. They shook them until they nearly fell off.