Today kicks off a special week of _Peak Time_ live from Detroit, Michigan in the lead up to Movement Festival, and featuring all Motor City-based guests. On today's show, we're going back into time to talk about _The New Dance Show_, a highly influential local dance show that ran from 1988 to 1995 on WGPR-TV 62 (the first US TV station entirely black-owned and operated). If you tuned in back then between 6P and 7P you could catch a selection of the Motor City's best dancers, coolest dressers, wildest rump-shakers and unforgettable characters getting down to the dance music of the day. In the vein of _Soul Train_ and its more disco-oriented predecessor _The Scene_, _The New Dance Show_ introduced several generations of Detroiters to the local underground's rapidly changing musical palette, evolving from funk and disco into the first strains of Miami bass, new wave and then techno and electro.
