build up the Dance Front

heh, i’m just excited and will Totally be Dancing Like Normal, heh, cause it ain’t crazy to us, no no no

heh

:D!

yes! The Dance Front now has an official myspace page… www.myspace.com/thedancefront we are awesome. we will win!

the last entry was a summary of The Dance Front’s latest rambunctious fun, but here are the plans for the dance front future:

• Make a myspace profile for the dance front:
  http://www.myspace.com/thedancefront (the email is thedancefront@gmail.com)
• Befriend local bands, tell them about The Dance Front

• Form a widespread collective of groups of friends and people who like to dance but DONT (or do…but do it alone) and get everyone having the best time ever…TOGETHER

• (this one is maddy’s idea…) introduce a Dance Front weight loss system: you come to the show, and try to dance harder, crazier and longer than the dance front (it’s basically impossible)

• love everyone!

A solid 9 days after the original Dance Front dancing extravaganza, yet another amazing eve was had by several of the founding members of the dance front.

twas The Bon Savants (and others) compilation cd release show, and madaleine weber, one of the four strong pillars of dance, took the opportunity to interview the band for her fake journalism assignment for a class. the band appreciated her earnest, knowledgeable style, and responded openly. Tom Savant describes the boston indie scene as “Stoic.”

maddy and this reporter then surveyed the scene, glancing at the door every few moments in hopes of catching the arrival of the smallest, most flamboyant member of The Dance Front: Jesse! they were sipping some water (free, legal hydration) when he pranced in, ready to dance.

The Plain Janes then played a set, during which The Dance Front bopped and boogied like mad, and was rewarded with 3 of the band’s t-shirts thrown from above and a “Thanks for Dancing!” from the lead singer. some slightly inebriated women managed to join in the fun at jesse’s coercion, but the crowd consisted mainly of Indie Salutes and/or head boppers.

Between the Plain Jane’s and The Bon Savants, certain members of The Dance Front conversed with members of the Bon Savants, who promised to “Bring the Rock” at the request of this Dance Front member.

They Most Certainly Brought The Rock!!

At the Architecture in Helsinki Sweatfest, one ‘matt bennett, one yuri lojko, and one andrew galati exploded with the joy of dance and communion and true experience.

i’m pretty sure we inspired at least 3 folks to actually get down (a bit) and this is just the beginning, heh.

there was a bit of a tiff when my lil’ bro got pushed & overheard people being all snooty & making comments about us dancing & he sorta lashed out & pushed us into people, creating a bigger dancing area, but also freaking out the atmosphere a bit… heh.

but ja ja, we WILL bring LIFE back to dormant children!

well… i hope so… but the other day cordelia and i (you can read about it on her page, too) went to two amazing concerts and danced like awesome at both. but, most people seem to suck at dancing… or at least at feeling comfortable. i dunno, its like travis morrison sings, “they were doing the standing still.” why can’t people dance to dance music? well, we have decided to get people more friendly and dancing at concerts and we have started this Dance Front. and now, our friends both new and old will form a coalition to make boston a friendlier city and dance at concerts! wooo!

On June 9th, my friend Lauren and i went to two different shows at two different venues in two different cities. i am pretty impressed with that (we saw M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, Thunderbirds are Now! and Enon) but even more impressive is the fact that we were dancing the entire time, from seven pm to one am.

now, at the enon/thunderbirds show, my friend maddy pointed this kid out to us. he was wearing a crazy shirt (mallard print!) and was basically the only other person in the room not just standing and staring at the band in the pose we all know and love, called the “indie salute”

after the show, maddy and i were waiting for lauren’s consumerism to end and i saw the mallard shirt kid, so i tapped his shoulder as he was running out and said “nice dancing, man!!” or something equally retarded, but he turned around and we talked for a few minutes about wonderful things: elephant six bands, shows and DANCING! we decided to form a collective known as “The Dance Front,” a group of friends and strangers and lovers who attend shows and dance like crazy for the entire show (as we tend to do normally) and try to get the head-boppers to join in on the dancing/rockin out/joy.

he left to catch the T, but then 15 minutes later he walked back into T.T.s…he had missed the last one…and he lived about a 2 hour walk away. we hung out for awhile, and walked with him the half hour that our ways converged. he told his story, we shared some of ours, it was lovely. we planned to meet at the bon savants show next weekend, but we realized that if he does come, he will probably miss the T again. what to do? i say jesse should move to the city. hopefully he’ll be there and the dance front will be well on it’s way!