Gloria Gaynor Disco Dance Party!

Alfredo Flores

Saturday, we went to Gloria Gaynor Live: Disco Dance Party at The Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. We snapped Fruit Guys’ Linda Lin, paralegal Amanda Lewis and American Institute of Architects’ Derek Washam.

Alfredo Flores

Disco Night was a celebration of the library’s collections and the music of Gloria Gaynor, with a once-in-a-lifetime disco dance party in the historic Great Hall. Guests explored the Main Reading Room, met curators, viewed special treasure displays, explored the library’s exhibitions and danced the night away. Here, Tyler Cherry, Jake Stronko and P. Noir, who performs drag queen bingo at Uproar.

Alfredo Flores

All disco-themed activities were made possible in part by the Library of Congress in association with BrightestYoungThings, the District of Columbia Library Association and The Recording Academy. The party was one of a series of disco-themed events to celebrate and memorialize the era of the mid-1970s and early 1980s that changed American art, fashion, language and sound. “Bibliodiscotheque” included two months of programs such as film screenings, lectures and a symposium, and the disco party finale. Here, lobbyist Mike Stanton and IDC’s Lisa Taylor.

Courtesy: Franz Mahr/BrightestYoungThings

Gloria Gaynor and her band kicked off the evening with a live performance, and guests also enjoyed appearances by DJ Mike Simonetti and DJ Adrian Loving.

Courtesy: Franz Mahr/BrightestYoungThings

Here, Gloria Gaynor performs "I Will Survive."

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