Vics Picks

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Alphabet Mafia Waacking Out
April 22, 2021

Underground House Dancing by Sally R. Sommer

Pop It, Lock It, Polka Dot It
April 09, 2021

Boom clap, boom de clap de clap “Planet Funk” and “Urban Legend” Zanfagna, Christina. “The Multiringed Cosmos of Krumping: Hip-Hop Dance at the Intersections of Battle, Media, and Spirit.”

Abby Z and the Olympics
April 01, 2021

Schloss, Joe “Physical Graffiti” and “The Art of Battling” from Total Chaos.  Banes, Sally. “Breaking.” That’s the Joint!:The Hip Hop Studies Reader, edited by Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal, Routledge, 2004, pg. 13-21.

Are swans gay?
March 18, 2021

“Dancing in the Margins: The Experience of African American Ballerinas” “Queer Swans: Those fabulous Avians in the Swan Lakes of Les Ballets Trockadero and Matthew Bourne”

Lover Scandal in Modern Ballet
March 05, 2021

"Early Modern Ballet: Firebird, The Rite of Spring, Les Noces” by Sally Banes “Ballet Astonishments” by Jack Anderson

Not Marius Petipa's Idea
February 26, 2021

In Pursuit of the Sylph by Deborah Jowitt The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth-Century Ballet by Lynn Garafola

Are there carbs in a ballet shoe?
February 19, 2021

A History in Broad Brushstrokes by Carol Pardo Recorded after one strong marg ;)

Have you ever seen a horse do ballet?
February 12, 2021

Ballet and Modern Dance a Concise History the 3rd Edition by Jack Anderson

Do they serve tea and cake at this one?
February 05, 2021

Folk Dance: Father Music, Mother Dance by Rosa Guerrero Piercing the Mask of Japanese Dance Theater by Helen Myers

That's deep bro
January 29, 2021

Ferne Yangyeite Caulker “African Dance: Divine Motion” Chapter 3 Olatunji Ojo “Performing Trauma: The Ghosts of Slavery in Yoruba Music and Ritual Dance”