But it had started with a simple idea: What if a bar just let women drink for free? Le Relais, on Madison and 63rd, was more everyone my age and everyone from Europe. Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. He was in his preppy stage in those days, wearing button-downs, which really is hard to imagine now. Id dance until about two in the morning and then Id go back to work. I had been starring on Broadway in West Side Story, and I had done the movie Ragtime, which was also coming out, but dance has always been my heartbeat. It wasnt a big deal. And yet, plenty of ladies were also against them. When Flashdance came out in 1983, Paramount put me up in the Carlyle Hotel to do promotion. And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word. So when they talked to me about playing the character Lydia Grant, the dance teacher, I said, Yes, I would be so interested if I could also be responsible for the choreography. Because by this time, I had been developing as a choreographer, working with the Henry Street Playhouse and the New York Shakespeare Festival, and I really loved doing it. Hes a Leo all the Leos I know love history. [By 1 a.m.] Id be somewhere like [the TriBeCa No Wave club] Tier 3, seeing [the electronic Berlin band] Malaria!, and then walking over to Daves Luncheonette. Things were 50 times as bad in Brooklyn as they were in Manhattan. I couldnt believe he knew the same stuff I listened to as a kid in Greenwich Village. We just called it The Bar, which morphed into Ze Bar, like with a fake French accent. Although it didn't hold up against Chili's, TGI Fridays, and Applebee's, there was a time when it was fairly ubiquitous throughout the states. Its basically the most conscious, relatable record. 1442 1st Avenue, New York, NY . When the sun came up, we would get bagels or pretzels and get back on the train. Her upstairs neighbor was artist Dan Graham, who I knew through the artist-poet Vito Acconci. Peter was straight out of Damon Runyon and Weegee.

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