Colin Paterson gets today's primary school children's reaction to the hits of 1952, while he asks a group of ballroom dancers for their views on 2012 hit, including Gangham Style by Psy.
In 1999 the group rented a ballroom at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.
"Club Havana" belongs to a familiar genre, the ballroom group piece in which couples swirl through a series of dances, embodying degrees of romantic involvement and sexual heat as they go.
There, Mexico City's local "houses"—ballroom groups that act like extended families for their members gathered for battle.
MAD HOT BALLROOM A group of New York City schoolchildren abandon rap for ballroom dancing, becoming what the press notes call "ladies and gentlemen" along the way.
But in the back of the ballroom a group of businessmen in performance fleece were wearing stickers and pins touting Chris Sununu, the moderate Republican candidate for governor.
More recently, he founded the seedy-opulent Lower East Side burlesque club the Box; helped to import the immersive-theatre juggernaut "Sleep No More," by the British group Punchdrunk; created the ballroom spectacle "Queen of the Night"; and brought "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" to a pop-up Russian supper club in the meatpacking district.
HIV activist and "father" of New York's famed ballroom vogue group House of Khan Luna Luis Ortiz once stated on HuffPost Live that he saw firsthand how, several decades ago, designers would send in spies to their ball events who would steal ideas that were later seen in major fashion week runway shows.
Gladman appealed, as it usually does, and so we found ourselves, 50 or 60 local people, a cauldron of lawyers and the representatives of two pressure groups, sitting in the ballroom of Stroud's Subscription Rooms.
Later, the group convened in a hotel ballroom that had been transformed into a stage set.
