Punk Rock Aerobics is one of those genius ideas\u2014and part of its genius is that it seems inevitable that someone would crash the loud anti-social-ness of punk into the whole disgustingly perky fitness world.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t inevitable. It began around 2000. And it began here, launched at the Middle East nightclub in Cambridge by Hilken Mancini, then best known as the lead guitarist in the indie rock outfit Fuzzy, and Maura Jasper, a video artist who had designed album covers for SubPop and Atlantic Records.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole point of the exercise class was that it was for the misfit,\u201d Mancini, who actually got certified as an aerobics instructor when they began the thing, told me a few years back<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s no mirrors, dark lighting, you don\u2019t have to bring anything. We give you bricks for weights. It\u2019s for the anti-exercise kind of person, or someone who just would never do this. But they\u2019ll do it because they get to jump up and down to the Ramones or Eater or something.\u201d<\/p>\n They’re back at it at noon Saturday at Once in Somerville<\/a> to benefit Girls Rock Campaign Boston.<\/p>\n Help us keep producing our great coverage of local activism and arts by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Punk Rock Aerobics is one of those genius ideas\u2014and part of its genius is that it seems inevitable that someone would crash the loud anti-social-ness of punk into the whole disgustingly perky fitness world. But it wasn\u2019t inevitable. It began around 2000. And it began here, launched at the Middle East nightclub in Cambridge by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[250,249,175,153,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5576,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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