Abdiel Jacobsen (“Abdiel” professionally) spent the majority of their young life trying not to be “too much” for the dance world. Growing up, Abdiel trained in ballroom dance, where a man always “led” ...

The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...

The disco ball twinkled in the night. Fog emanated from the dance floor. Glamorous strobe lights flashed. And the bar served… juice. For Santa Rosa teenagers during the late 1970s, the late-night hot ...

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

Had anyone in the late 1970s predicted that either Richard Nixon or disco — then both widely disparaged — would one day be held in considerably higher regard, they would have been promptly laughed out ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Abdiel Jacobsen, a former Martha Graham dancer, found freedom in hustle, which offers a progressive, gender-neutral vision of partnered social dance.

CLUB CLASSROOM ISN’T exactly a speakeasy, but it helps to know people who know people, even just to find the joint. First you have to locate a door on the southwest corner of Red Square, at the ...