let's dance!/postcolonial bop

"To be a writer is really not the most radical thing I could do because I do have some people around me. If I were a dancer, everything would be excluded, because a dancer has nothing to do with anybody except his or her own little muscles. But in my next life that is what I am planning to do. To be a dancer."
—Interview: Péter Nádas, by Davis Kovacs. Bomb Magazine, Summer 2007.


"If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance"
—Billy Idol, "Dancing With Myself"


Harry Gamboa, Jr.—Manda City, Issue 5 (21 July, 2007)

Contratiempo

Dancer in the Dark (von Trier, 2000)

David Bowie, "Let's Dance" (dirs. David Mallet & David Bowie, 1982):