When I asked Belle if she wanted to see a Broadway play, she said;
“Hell yes I want to see a dance show on Broadway. I’ve always wanted to see a Broadway show. I’ve been in NYC twice but failed both times to get overpriced tickets to any Broadway shows enough in advance to make one. Why do you ask?
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:59 PM, John Ambrose
Belle, my big project in Love Dance, a Broadway musical based upon the music of LOVE. Bryan was my best friend in HS. He was a roadie for the Byrds when he was 17. We hung out in a coffee shop in LA in 1963.
I about choked when you told me your were a dancer! Belle! You ring all my belles and set off all my whistles. It is just the way it is.
I want to see the hippie dance extravaganza on Broadway! How about you?
Jon”
She misunderstood. I had just learned she was a dancer. When she came at me at the square, she made a little motion as if to ask;
“Do you tango?”
I have claimed I invented dancing – away from your partner! I used to dance in front of a large mirror in the dining room for 20 minutes before I went to school, and when I got home. I would put myself in a trance, especially with the African Drums album I stole from Rexall. I would go around school in a trance. In several classes I fell in love with a beautiful young girl – from a distance. I would write poetry – in a trance. My hypnotherapist said I have owned the ability to hypnotize myself most of my life – to escape the pain!
While I am dancing Christine s misting the bathroom with hairspray. She and her friend, Linda, are sending baked cookies to the dude they love that dances on American Bandstand. She goes past me out the door, as I am going crazy. I gave her permission to be crazy – and creative! I had escape much of the “unmentionable darkness” Walking home from school I entered other dimensions. At sixteen, I dance the Bolero for Marilyn.
What I discovered about dancing, is you had to commit, like throwing yourself off a cliff. You are going to die and leave the mundane world. To sustain this you had to set stepping stones, bases, of tried routine in order not to be stopped by redundancy, the, you take the second plunger, then the third. Now you are in the zone.
In 1961 The Pony came out along with ‘Shout’. I would take my partner to the floor, and do a prance and a skip, changing weight to one side then the other. This took me in circles. I took care not to dance a circle around my partner, lest she freak – too much! They had an idea what they were getting into, and remained motionless – in comparison.
The dance floor was segregated. I would go over and watch about fifty blacks. I would steal come of their moves, which was a compliment. I regret not asked a black girl to dance, or take my partner into their area. There were white gangs, The Cavaliers and The Esquires at Oakland High School. I choreographed ‘Shout’. I would prance as far as fifteen feet from my partner, then, move in close during the slow part. THEN – I was off for the cresndo, with fifty of my classmates clapping the beat!
Above are photos of me with pegged pants that I sew myself. I was the prototype John Travolta made famous. Note the white socks. I was very protetive of both sisters. When a cowardly Gang and Dog Pack Rat Fuck spread a rumor that Chritine was a “whore”. I found him after school, and lined up my SLAP – that knocked him to the ground.
“The next time I will knock you out!”
The gangs never thought of recruiting me, the bad dude who pulled a knife on Captain Vic, the ‘Spud King of Oakland’.
Of course I was reliving The Past with Belle. Yes, I wanted to save her from The Gang! I knew Ambrose would bail when the going got rough, because, he did not recognize her.
I thought about taking dance lessons and going professional. But, I had so much on my plate. I practiced for a week. Marilyn’s sixteethn birthday was coming up. I aske her permission to dance without my shirt on because the Bolero ballet will make you sweat. My first love, did not object. I never saw Bejert’s ballet. I went into perfect trance. I nailed it. And King David danced before the Ark of the Covenant.
What gets me, after I discovered Belle was concealing her identity, while she asked me more personal questions, is, her Thug Dog Gang demands I ERASE all our history so they can continue to run their Covert Political Art Scam. What if I did a portrait of Belle, or, a sculpture of her. Would they demand I destroy these works of art? Who are they, but a bunch of street bums and nobodies, potheads who want all their monies to go to getting more pot, rather then pay rent and buy food. Attorney’s for SLEEPS put paint brushes and Crayola’s in the hands of scary destructive assholes, and demands society, treat the with Extra Respect, and buy what they got to sell. When I did my Art Review of them for Royal Rosamond Press ‘A Newspaper For the Arts’ the Nazi Goon Squad in Eugene, became visible again. ‘Little Nazis’ who demanded their mommies buy them a Nintendo game, and make them, and their friend’s, lunch!
“Not until you empty the garbage!”
“Fuck you mom. I’m going down to the bus station to hang with my gang! They understand me!”
Rosemary had a gang, consisting of her two sons, and two of their best friends. We called ourselves ‘Ma Barker’s Boys’ . We sew big pockets in our coats, and when we went shopping, we filled these pockets with food and household items, such as shampoo, lightbulbs, steaks.
“Excuse me Mr’s Presco, but, did you know your sons are robbing us blind?”
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Pony Time” is a song written by Don Covay and John Berry (a member of Covay’s earlier vocal group, the Rainbows), and originally recorded in 1960 by Covay with his group the Goodtimers. The song achieved greater success when it was recorded by Chubby Checker the following year, becoming his second US #1 (after his 1960 single “The Twist.”) Chubby Checker’s recording of “Pony Time” was also a number one hit on the R&B charts.[1]
The song introduced a new dance style, The Pony, in which the dancer tries to look like he or she is riding a horse. It was featured in the film “Hairspray“. A reference to the new dance style is mentioned in the song “Back to the Hop” (1961) by Danny and the Juniors.
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