Garages rock
Issue #31
New York ladies bring reggaeton and rainbows to traditional car-storage spots
By Mirah Kang
Published: March 1st, 2007 | 12:00am
Modern Garage Movement (MGM) dawned on Jamm, formerly known as JBird Leary, while she was backing the family car out of the garage last summer. “In New York, I don’t have a car or a garage, so I looked objectively at the space of a garage,” Jamm says. “I thought about all the garage bands, teenage hangouts, and kids’ plays happening in garages and then thought, ‘Why not make and perform a dance there?’ So I made two dances that summer and did four shows.”
Now, MGM is Jamm, Erin Sylvester, Felicia Ballos, and Reba Brooks dancing in neon tights and street wear to remixed scores of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” (injected with reggaetón) in garages. MGM went on a west coast tour in 2005, hitting up 10 cities in one summer. “The dancers and I just wanted to hang out, dance, and travel around the states,” Jamm says. See myspace.com/moderngaragemovement for more info.
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