![]() Juana was one in a series of DJs brought in to activate The New Eagle Creek Saloon, an installation by artist Sadie Barnette that reimagines her father Rodney Barnette’s bar in San Francisco and is on view at the Kitchen through March 6. There’s only one way to heat up a dance floor. Most of the patrons stood wiggling along the periphery until Juana made a shivering motion, spread her arms wide, and beckoned everyone to come in. ![]() 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. 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. On a recent Saturday afternoon, amid emergency alerts for snow squalls, a dance floor in Chelsea lit up with beats from Chicago. Photo: Charles Caesar for New York Magazine ![]() Juana spins at Sadie Barnette’s installation The New Eagle Creek Saloon at the Kitchen.
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