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2008 Fall

Top 25 Go-Go Dancing Songs for Felix Gonzalez-Torres' Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform)

Selected by Beau Rhee

Felix Gonzales-Torres' piece Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform) in NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith was activated by a go-go dancer who would hold a short performance atop of the piece.  Dancer Beau Rhee shares her top 25 Go-Go dancing songs with the P.S.1 Newspaper:

1. Alone in Kyoto - Air
2. Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
3. Day Tripper - The Beatles
4. Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley (with Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Hank Jones, Sam Jones)
5. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
6. Pictures of You - The Cure
7. Girls - Death in Vegas
8. Voodoo Chile - Jimi Henrix
9. Huh Huh Ocean - Jan Sa-Ik
10. Take the Lord Along with You - King Britt
11. Arranca - Manzanita
12. Love - Mos Def
13. Cigarette in Your Bed - My Bloody Valentine
14. Honey Power - My Bloody Valentine
15. Loomer - My Bloody Valentine
16. Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
17. Soon - My Bloody Valentine
18. I Would Die 4 U - Prince
19. He Got Game - Public Enemy
20. Treefingers - Radiohead
21. Landslide (Cover) - Smashing Pumpkins
22. 100 Bars (Accapella) - Spiritualized
23. Run - Spiritualized
24. Beautiful Mind - Verve
25. Make No Mistake - Young Lords

Beau Rhee is a dancer and visual artist. She graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2007 with a BA in Dance and a BA in Art History and Visual Art. She has performed at P.S.1, The New Museum, and trains regularly with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She has also shown her artwork in numerous galleries, most recently at Exit Art, New York.