Chic-a-Go-Go

Chic-a-Go-Go
Chic-a-Go-Go
Chic-a-Go-Go logo.png
Chic-a-Go-Go logo
Format Music
Created by Jake Austen
Jacqueline Stewart
Starring Jake Austen
Mia Park
Country of origin  United States
No. of episodes 647
Production
Producer(s) Jake Austen
Jacqueline Stewart
Running time 30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Chicago Access Network Television
Original airing May, 1996

Chic-a-Go-Go is a Public-access television cable TV children's dance show that airs on Chicago Access Network Television (CAN-TV). The show bills itself as "Chicago's Dance Show for Kids of All Ages".

Contents

Show description

The show invites members of the public to participate in tapings at CAN-TV studios. A typical episode features dancing to prerecorded music, as well as musical guests lip-syncing to their own songs. Each show is hosted by Jake Austen, who portrays Ratso, a teenage puppet rat, and Mia Park as human sidekick Miss Mia.[1]

Among the show's regular features are the "El Train Line" (based on Soul Train's "Soul Train Line"), the "Fantasy Dance" (which features dancers in front of a green screen), and videotaped interviews with guests.

History and influences

Austen got the idea for the show when he published a story in his magazine Roctober about Kiddie-a-Go-Go, an all-kids dance show produced in Chicago between 1963 and 1970. Austen and Stewart met the show's creators, Jack and Elaine Mulqueen, and were inspired to complete a certification course that would allow them to use the facilities of Chicago Access Corporation. They shot the first episodes of the show in March 1996.[2]

In addition to Kiddie-a-Go-Go, the show is influenced by well-known dance shows such as Soul Train, American Bandstand, and Solid Gold.

In the 2004 movie The Big Bounce, Morgan Freeman's character is seen watching the show.[3]

Artists who have appeared on Chic-a-Go-Go

References

  1. ^ About Chic-a-Go-Go!
  2. ^ "CHIC-A-GO-GO: Building Their Own Bandstand", Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, June 12, 1998
  3. ^ http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/2004/0104/040130.html

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • chic — chic …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • chic — [ ʃik ] n. m. et adj. inv. • 1793; chique 1803; all. Schick « façon, manière qui convient », de schicken « arranger » I ♦ N. m. 1 ♦ Vx Facilité à peindre des tableaux à effet. Travailler, peindre de chic, d imagination, sans modèle. « Le chic est …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Chic — Datos generales Origen Ciudad de Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos …   Wikipedia Español

  • CHIC — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Chic es un grupo musical estadounidense, formado en 1976 por el guitarrista Nile Rodgers, el batería Tony Thompson, y el bajista Bernard Edwards. Consiguieron sus mayores éxitos con canciones de música disco, como… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Chic — may refer to: Chic (style), chic meaning stylish or smart Related: List of chics Chic (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse Chic (band), an American music group popular in the disco era Chic (album), the 1977 debut album of the band Chic CHIC… …   Wikipedia

  • chic — agg.inv., s.m.inv. AU agg.inv., di qcn., qcs., molto elegante e fine, distinto: un abito molto chic, è una persona raffinata e chic | s.m.inv., eleganza, finezza: lo chic della sua casa è incomparabile {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: 1873. ETIMO: dal fr …   Dizionario italiano

  • chic — [ʃi:k] adj [Date: 1800 1900; : Frenc] very fashionable and expensive, and showing good judgement of what is attractive and good style ▪ Margaret was looking very chic in blue. ▪ a chic restaurant >chic n [U] ▪ the art of comfortable chic …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • CHIC-FM — CHIC is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts Christian religious programming at 88.7 FM in Rouyn Noranda, Quebec.The station began broadcasting in 2002.NotesCHIC FM was also the original call sign of a station in Toronto, now broadcasting… …   Wikipedia

  • chic — adjetivo 1. (invariable) Que es elegante y distinguido: Llevabas una capa muy chic. El sitio era muy chic. sustantivo masculino 1. (no contable) Elegancia, buen gusto: Héctor tiene mucho chic vistiendo. Sinónimo: estilo, distinción …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • chic — (Del fr. chic). 1. adj. Elegante, distinguido, a la moda. Es una mujer muy chic. 2. m. Elegancia, distinción. Tiene chic …   Diccionario de la lengua española

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”