Madonna’s “Vogue” was inspired by her time at New York City’s Sound Factory Bar where she witnessed the vogueing culture of the Harlem House Ball community. Jose Gutierez Xtravaganza and Luis Xtravaganza are the choreographers responsible for introducing vogueing to Madonna at the club. Madonna and producer Shep Pettibone wroteContinue Reading
Suzi Analogue’s “Womanifesto” and “Quieres” is turbocharged house and techno for late night dwelling in a club. Ms. Analogue last showed up earlier in the summer with the deep house single “Summer Smooth.” Both tunes meet up somewhere between Chicago and Detroit with “Womanifesto”‘s sample of Lyn Collins’s “Think (AboutContinue Reading
Rejjie Snow kicks off the summer with the single “Disco Pantz” featuring Tinashe and grouptherapy. It is the fourth song to emerge from Snow’s forthcoming Baw Baw Black Sheep album. The carefree mood of “Disco Pantz” can quell the anxiety still felt around the world as the pandemic continues toContinue Reading
Josephine Baker performed the Danse Sauvage wearing a skirt of artificial bananas onstage at Folies Bergère in 1927. Baker had relocated to France in 1925 and opened at the La Revue Nègre at age 19. She had started her career in vaudeville in her original birthplace of St. Louis, Missouri.Continue Reading