Rival dance crews find common ground in UrbanTheater's staging.
When house music is recounted in books, television shows, and other media, three things are always mentioned: Chicago, the Warehouse club, and Frankie Knuckles. UrbanTheater Company's Back in the Day, written by artistic director Miranda González and based on José"Gringo" Echevarría's memoir The Real Dance Fever: Book One, fills in the blanks of mainstream retellings with an all-encompassing "dancesical" of teens in the underage club scene that laid the foundation for house parties today.…
Rival dance crews find common ground in UrbanTheater's staging.
When house music is recounted in books, television shows, and other media, three things are always mentioned: Chicago, the Warehouse club, and Frankie Knuckles. UrbanTheater Company's Back in the Day, written by artistic director Miranda González and based on José"Gringo" Echevarría's memoir The Real Dance Fever: Book One, fills in the blanks of mainstream retellings with an all-encompassing "dancesical" of teens in the underage club scene that laid the foundation for house parties today.…