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Love In The Time of Corona Virtual Dance Party + Prayer for Well-Being

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA VIRTUAL DANCE PARTY

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Movement and music can be a kind of prayer. For this party (named for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s classic novel), choreographer Parijat Desai chooses music from an embodied place—as a dancer—sourcing hip-hop, soul, house, bhangra, arabic, latin, sufi qawwali, gujarati raas.

4/18/20 PLAYLIST
Dern Kala, Khruangbin
People Everywhere (Still Alive), Khruangbin
No Diggity, Blackstreet
Dhol Dark n Handsome, UK Artists/Basement Bhangra
Title in Arabic/Unknown, Hussain Al Jassmi (Egyptian)
La Negra Tiene Tumbao, Celia Cruz
Ana 3ala Allah, Team Nogoom Masr
Me, Myself, and I, De La Soul
Sip Sip, Jasmine Sandlas
I'm Every Woman, Chaka Khan
Lambada, Orquestra Caramba
House Music (A Soul Thing)," Eddie Amador
Miss You Less, See You More, Purple Disco Machine, JAYC Remix
Gianni Bini-Funky Music (Cold Skool Tribal Fantasy Vocal Mix), JAYC Remix
Rise Up! (Reworked), Sunkids
Saat, Kiran Ahluwalia
We Sinful Women, Kiran Ahluwalia
Senda Saivom, Arivu (Tamil)—check out this anti-CAA Tamizh power anthem
I Wanna Dance, Artem Uzunov
Tunak Tunak, Daler Mehndi

Earlier Event: April 18
Garba-Gong (online)
Later Event: May 2
Garba-Gong (online)