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posted by \"Morris Gould\" https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092865326815

It’s Madonna’s 68th birthday today and this article focuses wonderfully on her moves.
Madonna came to NYC pursuing a career in dancing first. She was raised in the clubs.

Her first demo was handed to a DJ by her after she intensely chased him, and many others, trying to get it played. When it finally happened, the reaction from the audience was undeniable. That DJ had connections with two labels, eventually leading to her being signed by Sire Records, who released her first self titled album.

Nile Rodgers, producer and cofounder of Chic who helped define the disco era before working with Madonna (for Like a Virgin album), has talked about how amazed he was by the way Madonna would sing and dance at the same time when he saw her for the first time in 1983. He explained that this was actually a performance format that had existed before, particularly among Black artists and female groups, but had almost disappeared from mainstream music as rock became dominant and performers became more static onstage.

Madonna was bringing that lost art back and turning it into something defining for a new generation of pop stars.

While she has never been recognized as a great singer, Madonna’s moves are what made her who she is. She became one of the biggest stars in the entire world, thanks to the way she moves, how smart she was, and the incredible energy she emanated.

This pertains to US ravers.

Okay I think most people can say that TikTok totally changed the crowd. It seems so performative. I see people say they are just going to go into an outfit- take pictures and then put more comfortable clothes on. For what? Not to mention these outfits are from fast fashion companies, and people wear them ONCE. Also filming other people and they always be having their flash on. It’s always irritated me and I saw smokeshopgirl on my fyp and did a scroll through her profile and I just had to block her. Just based on how she talks and just doesn’t seem nice or genuine. But anyways I’m just stating the obvious but whatever lol.

I love dancing but I want to be able to dance for even longer and I want to be able to keep dancing as I get older. Feels like there’s a harm-reduction angle here—anyway, appreciate your input, Reddit.

Went to Signal tonight, Satoshi Tomiie was ripping it. I haven’t done much raves in the city, usually something I do while traveling. Anyways, it was so incredibly difficult to keep my groove when so many people are taking on the dance floor! My goodness there is an outdoor area for you to talk all you want, why are you screaming at your friends in the middle of the dance floor? Ironically, I’m dancing next to one dude, I turn to him and say “hey man, those guys over there haven’t shut the f*ck up in over 20 minutes.” … oddly enough he has a shirt that said “Stop Yapping on the dance floor” lol. He later went up to them, showed them the back off his shirt, and they left lol.

But is this a regular occurrence or is this typical for a club like Signal?

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Posted by the club's owner to his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SHORTYDESIGNS/posts/pfbid02GA5qQD2AsLkhnonda5odfFmvUrgMBqfmkA2c9momm1Sw594z6rM3uHFWh3ygZzx6l

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TLDR: is it a rave if there are intentional intermissions?

So I’ve been “raving” since 1992. I wasn’t really into dubstep after I was invented in the 2000s. My favorite genre are techno, garage house, deep house, acid anything, etc. i’ve been to countless parties over the years. My flyer collection is huge.

All that to give some context to how surprised I was when a new friend convinced me to go to hijinx, a super dubstep party in Philadelphia.

And I was so shocked when at the convention center, in between DJs, they were like full on intermissions!! were they practically played like elevator EDM!

I almost stopped in my tracks like fully jaw dropped. Seriously I tried really hard to remember in all the parties I’ve been to., if they had ever been intentional intermissions like that. And I seriously could not remember a single example.

Like sure there would be fuckuos and technical difficulties, but there was always at least an attempt to switch off from one dj to another.

Then Again, an Elements this weekend there were intermissions again!

And we often have all of these conversations about what is there is not a rave. But from what I remember, I haven’t seen people often. Discuss not having an intermission as a key ingredient of a rave.

I mean, I think it’s such an important factor because the point of the repetitive music going continuously is that you get into the flow and can keep it going for a really long time and get into like a meditative dancing state. So an intermission just seems like a huge no-no to me.

And in fact, I remember an Ultraworld party that Lonnie threw in Baltimore, in a convention center I think something a similar big space. He managed to set up a stage in every of the four corners., and I think one in the middle if I remember, right.

And then each of those stages proceeded to flawlessly go down when then another one turned on. From what I remember, it was almost perfect.

And I remember seeing rabbit in the moon in one of those corners.

Lonnie’s parties were incredible. Now that’s what I call production.

That’s what I’ve been thinking about lately. And I’m wondering what the dancefloor community thoughts are on this topic.