Swedish band Little Dragon released a subtle and joyous dance-pop album last year that deserved to be a huge hit.
Think of One, a long-standing Belgian ensemble, went to Morocco to make "Camping Shaabi," an unclassifiable, joyous dance-pop record.
Just after MSNBC put a winning check mark next to Clinton's picture, projecting her victory in Ohio, a young female volunteer did a joyous dance with friends.
The place is a hangout for musicians, and two of those who died played klezmer, the bouncing, joyous dance romp rooted in Eastern European folk, and in a Racer house band called "God's Favorite Beefcake".
'L 'ALLEGRO IL PENSEROSO ED IL MODERATO' Created in 1988, this joyous dance has been one of the biggest successes of Mark Morris's career, and it is no stranger to New York stages; Lincoln Center loves it.
They are about to release their second album, Blue Songs, a winning melange of joyous dance music, acoustic guitar and stripped-back basslines that shouldn't work, yet does.
An untitled new song may underwhelm, and they will need some burnishing before they are a decent album band, but if it's joyous dance-floor rock you're after, the Rapture are as good as it gets.
Years later, standing in the market, Raju suddenly recovers, his nostrils "coming alive, sighing, swooning, singing, the hairs in them doing a joyous dance, cilia rousing themselves as though from a witch's spell" when he encounters "the char kuay teow lady's breath, sharp and salty, like other people's descriptions of the sea".
The cast of eight delivers the entire poem, taking one word each in turn, while standing under stark white lights dressed in charcoal monochrome, before stripping down to their underwear and racing around the stage in a kind of joyous dance, thrashing the boards with a dead tree branch (I promise I'm not making all this up), and gradually getting covered in stage blood.
The jungle itself appears to have given birth to the Pura Samuan Tiga, a sprawl of monumental gateways, staircases, and pavilions for joyous dance performances, sacrificial cockfights and the solemn placement of offerings.
