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The article focuses on Peter Gatien's project called Circa, a four-story nightclub/art museum/music-and-film venue in Toronto, Ontario. Gatien was a famous nightclub entrepreneur in the mid-nineties in New York City, and his clubs served as cultural incubators for disparate, marginalized tribes. He pleaded guilty to state sales-tax evasion, which led to his deportation. Circa has a seventies-themed Swedish sauna bar, a Fellini-esque surrealist ballroom, and a gay-bathhouse-themed disco that houses the actual bathrooms.

The article reports on Tina Nicolaidis and the choreography of City Dance Corps in Toronto, Ontario. Nicolaidis, a choreographer and co-owner of City Dance, has always been a fan of performer Michael Jackson and increased the success of her dance company after creating a salsa routine based off of the dancing in his music video for the song "Smooth Criminal." Since his death in 2009 she has created a series of dance classes teaching Jackson's dance moves which will begin in August 2009.