{"id":13,"date":"2009-07-20T22:48:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.54.218.98\/~ajdance\/?p=13"},"modified":"2013-01-30T21:15:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:15:59","slug":"greenhouse-2009-07-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/greenhouse-2009-07-19\/","title":{"rendered":"GREENHOUSE 19.07.09"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GREENHOUSE\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greenhouse was one of those rare events.\u00a0 A rare event no one ever saw coming.\u00a0 Its presence snuck up like a thief on a frigid foggy night.\u00a0 Then once it attacked, like a slap in the face, its presence made one take note to what was going on in the house; in the world of house music.\u00a0 This is my house.\u00a0 Welcome to my house.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Piedmont Park the largest park within the city\u2019s limits provided a grandeur view of midtown\u2019s metropolis skyline to the west.\u00a0 To the east sat residential neighborhoods clamored with upper-class Victorian style homes.\u00a0 This wasn\u2019t just any ordinary park but the city\u2019s grand central park which sat in the middle of midtown.\u00a0 To secure Piedmont Park for a house music event was no small task.\u00a0 There had to be lots of red tape, politics and a hefty fee that came along with securing a city permit to hold the event in such a metropolitan area.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The weather, entirely too perfect was just right for an outdoor event.\u00a0 Not one complaint was uttered or heard about the weather, temperature or park.\u00a0 Instead, overhead, sitting in overgrown Dogwoods, birds chirped songs of joy in the mid-summer air.\u00a0 Actually, a cool gentle breeze swept across the park\u2019s central valley that landed at the park\u2019s outer edge right before the ascent of giant skyscrapers.\u00a0 The temperature, only a mere 83 degrees was miraculous for this time of year when average high\u2019s hovered in the upper 90s.\u00a0 Interestingly, the day before that scorched with deadly heat and plagued by humidity that hung in the air with intense suffrage was today replaced by mild, clear and crisp air.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The bright July sunlight beamed atop the park\u2019s main pavilion roof marked with reddish shingles was supported by eight hinged grey cobblestone columns.\u00a0 Inside the open face structure, giant ceiling fans hung from a green ceiling constructed of wood.\u00a0 The pavilion could easily hold a hundred plus people.\u00a0 Although not knowing the exact numbers of attendees, there appeared more than ample space to accommodate the crowd of the lone three, currently on the dance floor. \u00a0 Besides me the others included; two toddlers playing and their observing caramel fresh faced mother.\u00a0 The young lady crowned with plump long black\/brown braids pinned up decorating the circumference of her brim, wore a bright yellow-orange long flowing summer dress that revealed two bronze nude feet with a smile of pleasure plastered to her face.\u00a0 She cautiously surveyed the two offspring bouncing a small red plastic ball, the kind found in bubblegum machines, to one another with warm smiles and cute giggles.\u00a0 Oops, the tiny red ball grazed my leg and bounced towards the pavilion\u2019s left wall.\u00a0 It landed softly on a patch of starved brown grass just beyond the front entrance near the pavilion\u2019s main walking path.\u00a0 The ball needed to be grabbed or it would disappear into the thick forest of once green blades.\u00a0 Being the fastest of the three, I leaped and plucked the ball out of the heated grass and gracefully handed it to the astounded children.\u00a0 Once again, there appeared those warm smiles followed by cute giggles as the two turned around and continued their business of play.\u00a0 What relief to see the innocent at work with nothing else to do but have fun.\u00a0 Only if life were a ball of fun then all would be well.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The park\u2019s air sprung to life with deep soulful underground sounds that thumped with uncompromising heavy four-count beats and blazed with soft mellow keyboard chords worthy of turning any non-house believer into a crazed house fanatic.\u00a0 The music caused my fingers to snap with my feet occasionally swaying from left to right.\u00a0 What was happening?\u00a0 I had no reservation to dance.\u00a0 Fortunately, I was giving in to house music\u2019s magnetic powers.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Photography by Carlos Bell<\/div>\n
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Greenhouse was one of those rare events. A rare event no one ever saw coming. Its presence snuck up like a thief on a frigid foggy night. Then once it attacked, like a slap in the face, its presence made one take note to what was going on in the house; in the world of house music. This is my house. 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