Dance Commander likes turkey burgers, guerrilla dance theater, cairn terriers, critical theory, and sugar free slurpees. RAID is into early 20th century Socialist Dance, Martha Graham, Butoh, Drag, Musical Theater, Michel Gondry, Hot Gossip, Busby Berkley, Pan's People, 80's feel-good movies, any and all dance fads, any and all shiny spandex.
Music
synthpop,mashups, hardcore (1992-2000), erasure, hot gossip, devo, frankmusik, roisin murphy,mashups, yaz, solvent, cut copy, beach boys,underworld, new order, postal service, dntel, voxtrot, joy division, the Knife, psych furs, gang of four, jesus and mary chain, wire, stone roses, peter gabriel,mashups, talking heads,brian eno, magnetic fields, underworld, imogen heap, cheap trick, blur, wolfsheim, pixies, muscles, black ghosts, the cars, Frankmusik, annie lennox, giorgio moroder,dirty sanchez, elkland, erasure...
Movies
Kicking and Screaming (1992), Grosse Point Blank, 20 centimietros, ghostbusters, party monster, Beetlejuice, Drop Dead Fred, Bladerunner.....
Television
the office, arrested development,ab/fab,Little Britian, father ted, the young ones.
Books
David Sedaris, Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Haraway, Chuck Closterman, Zizek
About me: Random Acts of Irreverent Dance is a radically inclusive and absurdly ambitious dance project, dreamt up in a high blood sugar hallucination by Ramie Becker, or as she likes to call herself, the "Dance Commander"-(we humor her and go along with it, it's just easier that way). Starting out as a guerrilla dance collective that terrorized the likes of downtown LA and Hollywood, RAID soon found a home at BootieLA's monthly mashup club at the Echoplex (Bootiela.com). Now, almost every month, Random Acts of Irreverent Dance RAIDS (get it, get it?) the Echoplex stage and imposes their bizarre dance sensibilities on an unsuspecting crowd of BootieLA patrons. With the love and support of Bootie founders, Adrian and Deidre Roberts, RAID continues to astound, amaze, bewilder, and delight audiences with our irreverent approach to dance-making and our gold spandexed glory. So the first saturday of next month, you know where to go. Don't fight, just feel it, and come watch us at BootieLA. Submit to the suit....the gold suit, that is. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
RAID is-
Miguel Barragan (founding member)
Katie Mitchell (founding member)
Ramie Becker (founding member)
Shakina Nayfack (founding member)
Carmen Aiello (founding member)
Richard Ragsdale/
Jennifer Jonasssen/
Kien Shimbakura/
Jessica Coffman/
Lindsey Stakoe/
Niketa Calame/
Cindy Burnett/
Jessica Rominowski/
Kimberely Arnold/
Stephanie Caswell/
Jonathan Corps/
Justin Winokur/
Owen Holdren/
Clint Tauscher/
Gail Hoopatron/
Alison Bory/
FRIDAY'S Show @ The Room w/ Cassy [Perlon, Panorama Bar, Berlin] & Exercise One [Mobilee, Berlin]: Sign up at: compression59@robtronik. com
to get in free before 10:00 p.m. and $15 before 11 p.m. $20 regular admission this Friday night @ The Room, 1626 North Cahuenga, Hollywood, CA.
FRIDAY'S Show @ King King w/ Alexi Delano & Ralf Kollmann: Sign up at: compression57@robtronik. com
to get in free before 10:00 p.m. and $15 before midnight. $20 regular admission this Friday night @ King King and the FUNKTION ONE sound system premiere.
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FRI NOV 28th @ Cinespace COMPRESSION'S THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY: Sign up at: compression58@robtronik. com
to get in free before 10:00 p.m. and $20 regular admission for FUNK D'VOID & MISSTRESS BARBARA.
FRIDAYS Show @ Cinespace w/ Adam Beyer & Joel Mull: Sign up at: compression54@robtronik. com
to get in free before 10:00 p.m. and $15 before midnight. $20 regular admission this Friday night @ Cinespace and the FUNKTION ONE sound system premiere.
SUNDAY's ROOFTOP PARTY @ Standard Hotel Downtown LA: Sign up at: compression55@robtronik. com
to get in free before 3:00 p.m. and $20 regular admission for the Standard Rooftop, Downtown LA.
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