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Music choices - Starting Here - composing music for dance - Brief Article LIKE MOST PEOPLE WHO KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT A SUBJECT, I AM NONETHELESS WILLING TO TALK ABOUT IT. OH, I CAN COUNT A PHRASE, CAN DO A TIME STEP, AND AM ACQUAINTED WITH LOUIS HORST'S IDEAS on choreog...(Continue Reading) Delicious duo: the gay half of the Danish dance act Junior Senior tells how he's become an unlikely pop pinup - music The walls of New York's famed Knitting Factory nightclub seem to be shaking. A capacity crowd of sweaty, downright joyful men and women are grinding ......(Continue Reading)Princes among thieves: sampling the '80s - hip hop music I don't recall that the vogue lasted for more than a few years, but one of the things many of us did in the 1980s was to put a music sample on our answering ......(Continue Reading)Willie Rosario: que viva la Salsa Dura de Willie Rosario: how a retro-movement in Puerto Rico's music known as Salsa Gorda or Salsa is redirecting a new ¡QUE BONITO ES PUERTO RICO! An old school salsa tune by Willie Rosario blasts out a car radio as we walk along the pier in the tiny town of Cataño, ......(Continue Reading)Dance theater - brief notes on several Broadway and Off-Broadway music and dance theater shows LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME, the runaway hit of the season, Hairspray, was already ensconced al the Neil Simon Theatre. This year, Broadway already has a ......(Continue Reading)
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