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I USED TO DANCE

by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

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photo credit: Bill Cottman 

I USED TO DANCE

I knew

I’d better learn to dance

I never knew how much was required

Or how long the music would last

I didn’t know how to catch

A segue before being trapped

On a dance floor or

Lost in drumbeats and bass lines

I used to dance… or

There was a dance

I used to do

There was a time

I used to dance the electric slide

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Wednesday 2nd October 2013 3:45 pm

float-a-come   I used to dance   Post Romantic Bop   the Boogaloo   the push and pull   the tighten up

Autumn Dance

by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

 





When J. Otis Powell! and Autumn Compton began their collaborative pieces, I was mildly unconvinced. Were Autumn’s shimmies something for a spoken word show? J. Otis’s playful accompanying piece, about the dance of autumn/Autumn was my assurance that once again, there were different ways for spoken word to be collaborative and playful, and then Autumn followed with her ow...

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Sunday 6th November 2011 10:31 pm

Autumn Dance   A Being In Motion   the Boogaloo   finger popping   conjuring   float-a-come

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