Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon — And The Journey Of A Generation - Plot & Excerpts
Paulekas was a wild-eyed guru who (though few of his acolytes knew this) had spent four years in prison in Massachusetts in the 1940s before moving to L.A. for self-reinvention. Paulekas and Franzoni trained a troupe of young “freakers” in the sensual body movement that soon became synonymous with late-1960s dancing. When you walked into Ciro’s in 1965, heard the music, and saw the (stoned) dancing, you were jolted by its radical fluidity, gentleness, and introspection. “You knew a new world had arrived,” says one habitué. The Byrds took the Paulekas-Franzoni dancers on tour with them later that year, but they were too ahead of their time. The group got beat up in the Midwest. But, as with so much from that era, gross irresponsibility and tragedy lay on the flip side of the ecstasy. An acid-tripping Paulekas set his young son atop a high ladder in his art studio one night, and the child fell to his death.
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