Garretson instructed his charges to limit their interactions with players and coaches, not to mention fans, dancers and mascots.
Though Mr. Glass disdains the term "Minimalism," coined to describe his music of motoric rhythmic riffs and repetitive melodic patterns, he was delighted to welcome the hordes of young people, rock fans, dancers, visual artists and formerly jaded classical musicians who hopped aboard his bandwagon.
In other words, the World's Fair are not interested in strip tease or fan dancers.
Tonight, the group holds a benefit in classic carny style: aerial artists, knife throwers, snake charmers and budding fan dancers from the New York School of Burlesque.
Electric colors are favored, along with looping lines that morph into startlingly exaggerated, churning figures of one kind or another: biomorphic creatures, circus acrobats, bulls and scantily clad sunbathers or fan dancers.
He then leaps onto the stage to cavort with a gaggle of fan dancers, leaving Zelda to sit outside the club, eyeliner running, with her friend Ludlow Fowler, who tells her that supporting Scott at all odds is "what she signed up for".
Located close to where the Beverly Center stands today, the Health Hut, according to its menu, was meant for "firewalkers, fan dancers, phrenologists, philosophers, soothsayers, saints, space people, phony wrestlers, oppressed quiz show contestants, alchemists, bongo and balalaika virtuosos, Venusians, and utopians".
The lead changed hands faster than a fan dancer working in the round.
Early in her career she performed briefly with a group that accompanied Sally Rand, the burlesque fan dancer and stripper.
Her closing line hinted at the finale that the show keeps flashing like a fan dancer: "Then you can jump from the balcony and fly to work.
Heather Berest was a witty fan dancer, and Ms. Viola and Julie Tice repeated their routines in a comedy that may be more serious than it looks.
