Juana spins at Sadie Barnette’s installation The New Eagle Creek Saloon at the Kitchen.
Photo: Charles Caesar for New York Magazine
On a recent Saturday afternoon, amid emergency alerts for snow squalls, a dance floor in Chelsea lit up with beats from Chicago. DJ Juana, in a black T-shirt, a black mask, and hoops, spun house records while episodes of the ’80s dance show Attack of the Boogie played overhead. It was all a bit of theater, a bit of simulacrum; the cavernous dark and the bone-penetrating bass line allowed us to pretend it was nighttime at the club and not daytime at an art space near the High Line. We needed some convincing. Most of the patrons stood wiggling along the periphery until Juana made a…
