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Dancer Nishi Roothan came of age in Hyde Park before attending Whitney Young arts magnet and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She began studying Egyptian dance as a teen, and later earned a BA in dance from Columbia, but has always cultivated both a studio and club practice. Roothan began partying at raves in the early 2000s and later became a fixture at spaces like Smartbar.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
House Music, Chicago, Illinois, dancer, Smartbar
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
African American Studies | Gender and Sexuality | History | Latina/o Studies | Music | Regional Sociology
Recommended Citation
Salkind, Micah, "Interview with Nishi Roothan" (2014). Chicago House Music Oral History Project. 38.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/house/38
Comments
This interview is part of the Chicago House Music Oral History Project held at Columbia College Chicago and was captured for Do You Remember House? Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds authored by Micah Salkind and published in 2019. The work integrates histories of music, production, DJing, dance, fashion, and slang and addresses movements that led to the development of Chicago's house music.