the DC crew and i have been dancing a lot lately. the age-old weekend question of “what should we do tonight?” has narrowed in scope to “where are we dancing tonight?”
dancing being a priority, we split time between the best moving cohorts in any city—the gays and the hipster / indie / club-going kids (sometimes one and the same?). both groups have:
- some fun bars: fab lounge, dc9, town, the black cat
- some wild dance parties: mixtape (top pic), kids (bottom pic—can you find me?), taint, homo/sonic, bliss
- some good websites: thenewgay.net, brightestyoungthings.com.
it’s different than my past dancing life, which consisted of going to the likes of mad river or fado or big city tap and giving a few fist pumps when “don’t stop believing” came on. really different. but really fun.
i can’t say the increase in activity has done much to improve my skills (this kid would school me). but that’s fine—i don’t have much shame once i get a few in me. and i do bring to the floor arguably one of the most entrancing dance faces you’ll ever see.
