The club's sound system is powered by a gas generator; the dance floor is a concrete slab.
Beholden to no one ― not even some seriously creepy dude who asks her for gas ― Stewart dances and drives her way through the city and, TWIST, it's not painfully awkward. .
Once that first wave of Indians was settled, they were able to sponsor relatives, who now hold a wide variety of jobs, from motel clerk and gas station attendant to dance teacher, journalist and investment banker.
As gas billowed across the darkened dance floor, Joaquim Dias, 25, felt his eyes watering and his throat burning.
Musical standards, with Edward Gardner in the pit, were secure though not vintage, and Berlioz's infinitely delicate score survived just about intact despite being zipped into an all-in-one concept and tumbling out wittily for a choreographic Treaty of Versailles and a dance of the gas masks.
Such are the weird economics of unconventional gas, and numbers that tend to dance in front of your eyes.
So does Noritoshi Hirakawa's video "Le Va et Vient," which shows a dark-skinned couple performing erotic dance moves at a gas station in Martinique.
And then you hit the gas and the six-speed transmission dances up and down between gears ever so gracefully.
Noritoshi Hirawaka's spellbinding video — a love triangle unfolds in a dance — was shot in a gas station in Martinique, with nothing New York about it save attitude.
Of the three finalists, Matt Cardle was the first to perform, singing Katy Perry's "Firework" as a group of dancers writhed across the stage in what looked like a dance interpretation of a nerve gas attack.
