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Remembering Tyrone Proctor, a pioneer of the 1970s L.A. dance style waacking

Tyrone "The Bone" Proctor was a "Soul Train" dancer who popularized a style known as waacking. (From Debra and Archie Burnett) Tyrone Proctor grew up in Philadelphia dancing with cousins in his aunt’s ...
Indy Week

In Rennie Harris Funkedified, A Journey Through African American Dance Communities of the 1970s

Gotta have that funk, yo. Yale art historian, Robert Farris Thompson, in his 1983 work, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, traces the origins of the word “funk” to the ...
American Songwriter

3 One-Hit Wonders from the 1970s to Dance Along to

As popular music was exploding in the 1970s and new genres were bubbling up along with new bands to match the public's love affair with the radio and vinyl, there were also a number of singular ...
Seattle Weekly

Dance • Pilobolus Pilobolus When it began making dances in the 1970s,

When it began making dances in the 1970s, Pilobolus was like almost nothing else in the modern dance world. Here was a collection of guys who combined sport and gymnastics skills to create a kind of ...
The New York Times

15 Songs That Shook New York’s Queer Dance Floors in the 1970s and ’80s

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Playlist During this fertile period the way revelers received dance music — and what was considered dance music — shifted as new kinds of spaces ...
Seattle Weekly

Dance • Pilobolus When it began making dances in the 1970s, Pilobolus

Pilobolus When it began making dances in the 1970s, Pilobolus was like almost nothing else in the modern dance world. Here was a collection of guys who combined sport and gymnastics skills to create a ...