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Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [132] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [133] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 134 ]
Each one-hour show featured top hustle dancers and two 10-minute instructional segments that allowed viewers to learn how to hustle dance in the privacy of their own living rooms. One of the first shows featured a young Billy Fajardo and the Disco Dance Dimensions. Many of the show's video clips can be found on YouTube. Marty Angelo also ...
As Chapman says, “At the heart of disco is joy, using music and dance to be yourself. It’s a form of liberation, but that liberation always takes place in the context of a wider world and a ...
The 1942 movie Casablanca featured a disco ball in a flashback sequence. The 1967 movie To Sir, with Love featured a disco ball in the dance scene. The English rock band Yes used a variant of the disco ball in their 1972 "Close to the Edge" tour. This was a slowly spinning vertical mirror disk mounted atop a tall ladder, with a single spotlight ...
The series documented the impact that disco music had on popular culture in the 1970s. The show featured several disco innovators and people related to the culture including: Marty Angelo - Producer, Disco Step-by-Step; Charlie Anzalone - Club DJ; Maurice Brahms - Club owner, Infinity; Harry Wayne Casey - Lead singer of KC and the Sunshine Band
An illuminated dance floor, LED dance floor or disco dance floor is a floor with panels or tiles that light up in different colours. They are used for dance. They are used for dance. They were popularised for disco by the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever , which itself was inspired by a floor that director John Badham had seen at "The Club ...
Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights, organized by Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, [1] was the first major museum exhibition to explore the rich, complex world of disco. [2] Pulsating with light and sound, the exhibit followed disco from its beginnings in New York club culture to the fad created by Saturday Night Fever , the ...
An example of the term "disco" with no relation to a specific music style (and dance music in general), is the Disco series that aired in Germany on the ZDF network from 1971 to 1982. This show proved that the term "disco" was widespread enough at the time, and that the second national TV network of Germany used it for a general music TV show ...