Oh yeah...And the skating crew from Ontario...I gotta tell ya
Five white men (all of the American skating groups were African
American and pretty young, in their twenties), one of them was about 65
or 70, skinny as hell and zipping around the rink. Another man, looked
like his son, or maybe even grandson, wearing black trousers, a light
blue dress shirt, black bow tie and black suspenders, and white runners
with skates attached. He was an excellent skater too, moved in kind of
a goofy, stiff way - but it looked cool, he knew what he was doing.
The three other men - in their fifties maybe, big bellies, short, and
good skaters - but still kind of goofy looking (in a good way, I'm
Canadian too, so it's cool - ha ha!).
Okay, so I just had to add this to my description to round out the night.
Denise
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Denise MM Dalphond
Assistant Instructor, Motown
Graduate Assistant, Liberia Collections Project
Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
Indiana University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Denise Dalphond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
It was F-ing fantastic! Tons of local skaters from Detroit - almost
everyone on the rink was amazing. Some professional skaters from
Chicago, Ohio, Florida, and Ontario were there - really cool to
watch. There was a skating competition at around 3AM that these
skating crews participated in. It was not as crowded as I expected,
although the rink was pretty full most of the night. It seemed like
the DEMF folks who came were either already into skating and had on
their tiny shorts and knee socks or were just a cooky few who wanted
to check out the party and have some good food (that includes my
husband and me!). And the food was delicious - they were serving it
up for at least 45 minutes - there was so much.
Kenny Dixon played some old R&B (Shotgun, Curtis Mayfield, etc.),
80's Michael Jackson, some important techno tracks (Sharivari - great
to skate to!). I almost didn't get to skate - I'm 5 months pregnant
and the woman handing out skates totally did not want to let me get
on the rink. But I was able to convince her. The skaters were fast
and smooth and zooming around me, dancing the whole time. My husband
decided to sit it out with his purple cast on his broken arm. He
spent the evening taking photos of all the skaters - he's a
photographer.
After spending most of the afternoon and evening at DEMF with my big
pregnant belly in the chilly rain, I was not sure I was up for
anything more than our hotel room. But I could have kept on skating
well past 4AM, it was so great.
Definitely satisfied! Hope it happens again.
Enjoying all the reports. Hope you all had a good weekend like we did!
Denise
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Denise MM Dalphond
Assistant Instructor, Motown
Graduate Assistant, Liberia Collections Project
Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
Indiana University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Anyone who attended have time to give a report on Moodymann's party?
MEK
