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How to start a dance party

I’ve been to many dance parties, clubs, shows and festivals so far and how people react in mass tends to very by location, genre of music and level of intoxication. There’s no doubt everyone reacts differently to music but I’ll say no matter who you are, there’s gonna be some tune out there that gets your foot tapin, head nodding or body rocking. Not everyone though has rhythm but that should never stop you from feeling the beat and moving to it.

I’ve danced by myself many times, typically when I go to hear good djs/bands, playing at douche bag venues where the look, style or vip of the scene is more important than the company you keep and the music that’s bumpin through the speakers. I’ve never let a bad scene deter me from getting down and I’ve certainly been the first on a dance floor early on in the night when the music encourages me.

Here’s a great vid of one guy, feelin it at the Sasquatch festival in OR and with a tipping point of 3 dancers, this becomes a field dance party:

Just Dance!

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When I hit the dance floor, you know Im doin the stanky leg

Get the fuck out of here! I know this move was dropped almost a year ago, but I still can’t believe my ears when I still hear this song and the dance. This shit is not in NYC and if it is, not in the clubs I’m going to. With unforgettable lyrics like these, there’s no doubt though it’ll be around for another summer!

Sauce on my ring (ay) then I rub it ‘cross your head.
You an h boom cool chick you can do it too.
Snap you fingers in the air and shake you micros too!
Now you can lean wit it,
now you can drop wit it.

and

Ro- roast up your weight and get slide next to me.(ay!)
Ay you better bang yourself cause I can tell that your hot.
I hope you wind it up, lean back and show your socks.
Dip. Dip. Then i want you to stop.
Do the booty do.

Stanky leg still won’t replace Crank dat – superman dat ho! Now drop that, woop da dee doop!!!

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Dancing in the streets to fight the law

There are only 69 venues in Manhattan where it’s legal to dance. Since the inception of the Cabaret Law in 1926 designed initially to curb public lewdness and interracial mixing, the laws were made tighter in the 80s by renewed building codes, neighborhood zonings and renewal laws. City wide there are 148 cabaret licenses and that includes adult entertainment, hotels, and restaurants.

The Cabaret law forbids any type of dancing at any establishment not licensed by the city to allow such practice. So essentially that booty shaking you do at your local bar’s jukebox is essentially illegal and could land the bar several hundred dollars in fines if the authorities choose to enforce the law.

These laws are antiquated and serve little public good as it’s the noise laws that regulate the club and bars of New York, not the cabaret laws when it seems now, only serve as another method to “tax” nightlife establishments.

This month, organizers of the upcoming 1st annual “Dance Parade” kicks off on May 19th and they expect to gather about 6300 dancers of all types for a festival/protest of sorts to bring awareness to this ridiculous law. Kicking off with a parade down Broadway and ending in Tompkins Square Park (tentative change to Washington Square park?), expect to have DJs Kool Herc, Danny Tenaglia, John “Jellybean” Benitez and more spin house, dance and all types of tracks to get your feet moving for the repeal cause.