Monday Nov 9th

@

SULLIVAN ROOM

The LYDM continues!

"The Little Yellow Dance Machine"

with

music by EXACTA

w / Opening Set by 

Aldo Ron Sanchez & Noa

The Little Yellow Dance Machine is believed to date back over 3000 years tothe Sahara Desert. Archaeologist Grahm Telouisse discovered this buriedtreasure in 1693.

There are many legends about this machine that we are first discovering today from art and scientific discoveries in the surrounding area. No one knows how such a machine dates back so many years, but experts agreeit's primary function was for the ritual of dance. Some believe it was thework of aliens or ancient gods who used this device as we would today as arecord or cd player.

Passed on from one civilization to the next the only constant found is that only one person can use it at a time leaving that particular person with the arduous task of entertaining a culture. It was used during the Renaissance period to hold music sheets of cloth andin 1917 an English sound pioneer, Edward Danville was able to replace thesun damaged surface to bring the Little Yellow Dance Machine back to life.

From 1921 to 1968 the machine was lost and turned up once again in a pawnshop in New York City on August 10th 1969. Since that time there have been11 failed attempts to salvage the ancient dance machine which gets its namefrom the yellow color it developed from it's long duration in the hot desertsun. The machine was sent to scientists in Japan in 1997 and since then theyhave been working on restoring the machine for it's original purpose ofdance and celebration.