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TONIGHT, LET'S DANCE
by Usa Anderso
Throw a home dance party no one will forget
When there's a crowd, a cover charge and crapy tunes at a dance party. Joel Kelly is disappointed. While many people frequent dance parties to get drunk and a hook up partner, some people like Kelly actually go to dance to the music. Shocker The bad environment affects his ability to do so.
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He would rather throw his own dance party, Kelly says. "When I go to a bat I get really poised because it's not the music I want to hear." The St. Louis senior currently DJs at Team Lift, the Thursday night dance party at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. He also frequently DJs his own house parties. What's better about this? The answer is that it is my dance party; he says.
"I decide when and how and what to dance to."
throwing your own dance party, and if you’re tired of experiencing nightlife nightmares, enjoy the occasional do-it-yourself dance party, say Gail Leino, Mrs. Party, the online artist expert.
Bring your friends
You'll probably want your dance night to be invite-only. "At the bars you never know what kind of drunken shitheads you'll run into, but in your own house, it's usually just a big group of close friends being outagee and wasted," Tyler McNally, 2009 graduate, says.
McNally, his roommate and friends throw an "Under the Sea" prom theme dance party two summers in a row. They simply wanted an excuse to dance and did no promotion for the event — just word of mouth between them. Fiona intimates, "Female intimate." Dove uses a
WHEN I GO TO A BAR I GET REALLY PISSED BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE MUSIC I WANT TO HEAR."
— JOEL KELLY,
ST. LOUIS SENIOR
A friends-only guest list and help in the planning process cut down on costs significantly, but there were still changes in charge admission and spending was limited, so the costs they had were split among the planners. Monley estimates that each person who helped execute the event spent about $15 less than the staff paid in a night out at the bar.
collaborative effort on the parts of many friends," says Jackson Morely M.Nailey's co-mate and co-host. "There were probably 10 of us who had a role in planning the first event."
Room to bust a move
Aside from an intimate guest list and saving your green, you'll need a little elbow room. Because of the success of his first prom party, Morley and I were in town the next time around. We moved to a new venue, my father's shop in East Lawrence, which was fairly vacant. he says, "There was more room there, and we could comfort us we confident we would have no noise complaints."
While not everyone has the option of moving the dance party into a large venue for free, anyone can move the furniture if you have a living room, move everything out and at least to the kitchen. The most common is an open floor. "You need just enough room for folks to dance." Edwin Morales, D.J. Konsept, says.
When you have the people and place set the most important aspect of the dance party come into play: the tunes. You're best option is to get a DJ or DJ the shindiging you. Although Kelly Dj's his own dance parties, finding a friend to DJ is often better because it allows you to move around. If you don't have a friend who is a DJ, there are ways to find them. Kelly says "We usually just fall through the grapevine" he says. "Talk to another DJ at a bar or call KKH." Kelly will do it for charge if they can master up the equipment. I am quite the pushover and I will usually just spin at a house party for free beer."
The next time you find yourself decading the thought of yet another bande dance party and dance to your own tune.
THEME IT UP
Although themes are optional, Gail Leno — known online as Mrs. Party — and bars around Lawrence offer some great dance party theme ideas.
Decades (Roaring '20s or'80s)
Roaring '20s or '80s
Disco
Fiesta
Funk
Lauu
Western
Mardi gras
Metal
Safari
Sailor
Stevie Wonder
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