Many people loved this place!
Seresa "Nut" Coleman, owner of longtime Benning
Road NE hand-dancing club The Chateau passed away on April 1. He was 84.
Coleman opened The Chateau in 1967 and it has since become
a legendary club, hosting a number of heavy-hitting soul acts over the years
including Denise LaSalle, The Marvelettes, The Dynamic Superiors, and more. In
recent years, Coleman’s comfortable but worn-around-the-edges room, notably
located between a church and a liquor store near I-295, became best-known for
hosting hand dancing, a D.C. version of swing dancing.
In 2015, the Washington City Paper included “Breeze
Country,” the public access TV hand dance program recorded on Wednesday
evenings at The Chateau, as part of its Best Of issue. Many of the Wednesday
night regulars also attend the weekly Friday hand-dancing night that's kind of
like a high school reunion for longtime D.C. residents who grew up in '50s
through the '70s.
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