Prologue

The Electroswing Limbo Conga-line

 

The Gallery was full to the brim:
the dancers, models, flappers and bootleggers,
the rich brokers, the classy acolytes of the academy.
The past, the present and the future collide in the theater, for a spectacularly vintage, glamorously hypnotic,
and sensationally electrifying last party
to the beat of electroswing.

The singers, the bands, the composers, magicians
and the mafia in the shadows, the top hats playing card games in the private rooms with their camaraderie; all surrender to the music and the night, to feel alive,
to drink the last days of the metropolitan dream,
giving up the senses to the excitement and pleasure
of music by dancing the night away,
with all souls astray.
Hit and runs, Jitterbugs, Charleston solos, guitars and drums!

The Majestic Electroswing Limbo Conga Line begins. The conga line forms to the beat of the fusion. The dancers perform the limbo dance, passing the neon poles the clowns held lower and lower. The music transitions between limbo dance and electroswing
with wild piano solos and explosive horns.