noizemagazine - Index

noizemagazine - noiZe Magazine Issue 57 August 2008 - Index

Corbin and Hernando Cortez—both
of them, not coincidentally, veterans
of parties in New York City and
on Fire Island.
Despite its newfound popularity
in the wider world outside of
Circuit parties, however, flagging
will always have its detractors. Many
a dancer has been bopped on the
head by a runaway strip of weighted
silk or has endured dodging a
swirling mob of fabric. “Some people
at the club come up to me and
ask if I’m trying to grab attention,”
complains David Gosbin, a former New
Yorker now living in Palm Springs. “I
tell them, ‘No, just the opposite; I don’t
care if anyone else is watching or not,’
to which I might add, ‘Flagging is the
music made visual; it’s how the DJ plays
me.’”
Dan Tyler majored in ethnographic
research at UCLA, has flagged for nine
years, and now teaches in Louisville,
Kentucky. He is also the director of a
soon-to-be-released documentary titled
FLAGGERS! Dan can be reached at
danieltyler@mac.com
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