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Show Us Your Hands: Inside EDM’s Gloving Craze
With their mesmerizing movements and entrancing light shows, glovers are becoming an EDM force
If you've been to an EDM show in recent years, you've seen them: dancers waving light-equipped gloves in the faces of mesmerized ravers. What may look like a drug-induced lark is actually part of a budding international phenomenon, known to the rave community as "gloving." While a DJ performs on stage, a glover entertains the audience, donning illuminated gloves, moving his or her fingers in time to the beat and forming rapidly changing light patterns. Glovers' displays can be a show within a show, and the man largely responsible for gloving's spread is Brian Lim.
What follows is a break-down of Lim's business and the gloving craze at large, complete with accompanying videos. By Nicole Pajer
