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Dance Machine, 30 ans concert will air next May 28th on W9
The concert which was recorded last November will air on French TV channel W9 at 21:05 (Paris time). Hosted by Ophélie Winter, it will include many archive footage
An article about the new Dance Machine concert
The webmasters of the Paris Gayzine blog attended the event and deliver a summary (including many photos). Article is in FrenchMore infos
Dance Machine, a new edition at last ?
M6 media group announced that a show would be shot next Thursay, November 24th at the Dôme de Paris, hosted by Ophélie Winter. She hots Dance machine club series, was among the animation team on concerts edition 4, 5, 6 and 8, and had even performed on stage during Dance Machine 6 and 8. Neither the broadcast date on W9 channel (maybe the first trimester of 2023), nor the complete lineup, were mentioned by the channel. But the concert hall unveiled a few names : Corona, Dr Alban, Culture Beat, Worlds Apart, Benny B, Billy Crawford and the Poetic LoverMore infos
The siteLe site
This site is dedicated to the Dance Machine concerts, that took place in Paris during the 90s. Its aim is to gather all informations available about the concerts, and maybe to motivate the M6 channel to release DVDs of the concerts, who knows, maybe one day...
Every Frenchie born before 1990 knows this series of concerts, but infos about the concerts are quite scattered, and some foreigners still ignore the existence of these events which could almost be considered as the French eurodance Woodstock (given the event's size).
Many equivalents exist abroad : The Dome in Germany (organized by Ann Dörr too), Tansuyushii Gorod in Russia, Avex Dance Matrix in Japan...
The Dance machine concept also inspired other dance concerts in France : Dance d'Or (MCM) and Mega Music Dance (TF1).
The story
It started out on May 5th 1990 when Gilbert Di Nino and Thierry Bruant, in collaboration with the TV channel M6 and the radio station Fun Radio had the idea to broadcast a brand new concept : a huge concert inspired from discotheques. The name chosen was La plus grande discothèque du monde (the biggest discotheque in the world) and the place was already Bercy... It was presented by Alexandre Debanne et Roxanne for M6, Diego and Eddy for Fun Radio.
Then... nothing during 3 years... Until the first Dance Machine concert in October 1993. Original concept was created by Tunisian businessman Patrick Sebag, who named it "Dance Machine Rave" and sold it to M6.
Ad for the first Dance Machine concert (the can on the image is a play on words, "boîte" in French means a can, but also a discothèque)
The intro and outro melody of the concerts is taken from the song Who Pays the Piper by Gary Clail.
There was also a Dance Machine tour, sponsored par Axe (French name of the deodorant brand Lynx)
Corona was elected the singer who marked Dance Machine's history.
Dance Machine phonecard