Presented by Philadelphia Dance Projects, 2024
Choreographed & Directed by Lily Kind

Video: Bob Finkelstein

Music & Movement Credits
Csárdás Pour Plombinette - Marquise Bradley (clarinet) with Dylan Smythe (pandeiro). Danced by Lily Kind.

Lily’s movement vocabulary in this duet with Marquise relies on Waacking to achieve percussive speed. Waacking is a highly-performative club dance originating in Black and Brown queer clubs in Los Angeles in the 70s. Waacking, also known as Punking in it’s origin, was danced to a wide range of music, geared towards dramatic effect. It re-emerged in the commercial and battle scene in the late 90s and early 2000s. The dance in this piece is improvised.

Every Single Night - Fiona Apple.
Danced by Lily Kind & Chelsea Murphy.

Fiona Apple (b.1977) is an American singer and songwriter.

Lily and Chelsea share a series of hard-to-trace overlapping dance trainings, including an interest in ‘somatic’ experience and post-modern composition skills. Most of this dance is improvised.

Shower Song - Tierra Whack.
Danced by Lily Kind, Chelsea Murphy, and Chloe Marie.

The movement vocabulary in this trio comes from years of watching music videos, the musical theater that seeped into our subconscious, cats as pets, and Locking.

Tierra Wack is a Philadelphia based rapper and artist. We assume the singers she references in this song are: Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Alicia Keys.

Until the Real Thing Comes Along - The Shirley Scott Trio. Traditional.
Danced by Maddie Hopfield, Lily Kind, Chloe Marie, Dylan Smythe, Elizabeth Weinstein,

Shirley Scott (1934 -2002) “Queen of the Organ” was an organist and jazz musician from Philadelphia known for blending gospel, swing, and bebop.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along was written by Alberta Nichols in 1931. It was first performed on Broadway by Ethel Waters in the production Rhapsody in Black. The song was substantially re-written in 1936 before being published as sheet music by Chappell & Co in 1931 (later bought by Warner Bros.)

The line dance scene here is a slowed down excerpt of what’s known as Frankie Manning’s Shim Sham also known as The Lindy Hoppers Shim Sham, which is a simplified variant of the Shim Sham common amongst tap dancers, believed to have originate on the vaudeville circuit.

Bolero - Maurice Ravel
Recorded by London Symphony Orchestra, 1995.
Danced by Maddie Hopfield, Lily Kind, Chloe Marie, Chelsea Murphy, Dylan Smythe, Elizabeth Weinstein.

Dancer Ida Rubenstein commissioned Maurice Ravel to write Bolero in 1928, and it premiered at the Paris Opera to choreography by Bronislava Najinksa.
Music historians have proposed that Ravel developed the rhythms and harmonies based on either the Spanish dance form Bolero and/or Sufi training methods.

Mystery of Love - Mr. Fingers
Danced by Maddie Hopfield, Lily Kind, Chloe Marie, Chelsea Murphy, Dylan Smythe, Elizabeth Weinstein.

Larry Heard aka Mr. Fingers wrote Mystery of Love in 1985 as a first draft on a Roland Jupiter 6. The song would be part of a musical moment that catalyzed the development and popularity of House music in the US and abroad, and lives in the liminal space before house music became a firmly established genre.

The movement in this section includes both now-canonized ‘house moves’ including recognizable footwork patterns and grooves. It also includes momentum and spiral-based contemporary dance methods, as well as the structure of Passing Through, an improvisation game designed by David Zambrano. Our time training with Ron Wood, a Philadelphia dance icon known for blending martial arts, and house, is also alive in this vocabulary.


Low Hum - Sianna Plavin
Danced by Maddie Hopfield, Lily Kind, Chloe Marie, Chelsea Murphy, Dylan Smythe, Elizabeth Weinstein.

Sianna Plavin (b. 1987) is a singer-songwriter and midwife / birth-worker.

The movement in this section is based on a score/game called ‘Honey Down the Mountain’ shared with me by Venezuelan dancer Manuela Aranguibel while we were both training in Brussels. My memory is that the exercise came from her martial arts teacher; I think it was either aikido but I’ll have to ask her to be sure.