The dance floor was brimming with people grooving to the beat, but making sure to give each other enough space to move around easily. As Tokita shifted smoothly between lilting, airy disco and harder, grittier techno, people in the crowd took turns coming up on stage to swing a red lamp that hung above the DJ table in what appeared to be a longstanding tradition. People’s faces were lit up in the red glow of the stage lights. A glittering disco ball swung overhead. Beyond these details, there was minimal decoration. The emphasis was on the music.
(she/her) Gray Harrison is a writer and critic with a lifelong love of the performing arts. In 2023, she finished her Masters in Cultural Reporting and Criticism at NYU Journalism, where she learned to apply her fiction-writer's eye to real-world arts journalism. She has reported on music festivals, hosted her own radio shows, and written podcast episodes doing deep-dives into albums. This winter, Gray interned on the editorial team writing music news stories for Relix magazine, and she most recently started a position as a movie and TV features writer at Collider. In addition to her love of music and cinema, Gray hopes to bring her involvement in the Seattle dance scene to her writing for The Evergreen Echo.
