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Downtown icon James Chance cuts loose

Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 16 November 2016

IT WAS WELL after midnight last Thursday by the time James Chance and the Contortions took the stage of the Bowery Electric. Dapper in his dress jacket and dancing shoes, the 63-year-old Chance made it clear he was there to boogie.

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