January Dance Party #2: Sunday 29th (Plus, request a song with “dance” in the title!)

Snoopy and friends sure know how to get groovin'

If dancing is so much fun, then double the dancing would be so so much fun, right? We’re giving you a double dose of dance parties this month, following up our rockin’ 2012 return with a second January date on Sunday the 29th. And this dance party playlist is going to have a special theme, too, and we want your requests to help make it extra awesome! Read on for all the details…

Join us:

Sunday Jan. 29

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*studio’s open at 3:30 and we’ll start dancing at quarter to, giving you a bit of time to change & stretch*

Mad for Dance
263 Adelaide Street West
Go downstairs and turn right
Cost = $8

- wear whatever your heart desires but something that’s good for dancing in for 75 minutes…
- there is water available there, but if I were you, I’d bring a big bottle for myself
- bring a gal pal cuz the more = the merrier

Special DDPP Playlist Theme! DJ Suzie G is trying out a themed playlist this time around, and she wants your help. All of the songs in this playlist will have the word “dance” (or a variation, such as “dancer”/”dancing”) in the title. This means you can definitely expect some Lady Gaga and some Men Without Hats to make appearances, along with some other new and old dance faves. Got any requests for songs with “dance” in the title? Post ‘em in the comments or send us an email at ddpptoronto [at] gmail [dot] com.

Ask us questions if you got some! And volunteer DJs for future sessions are welcome too! It’s tons-o-fun and people tell you afterward how great your taste in music is. Rewarding!

We can’t wait to dance dance dance with you all soon!

Yesterday’s playlist, courtesy of the fabulous DJ Criss-a-Tron

My fellow den mother, DJ Criss-a-Tron, might have been stuck at home with a nasty cold on Sunday, but we still danced our hearts out/legs off on her behalf on Sunday…and she was there with us in musical spirit, too! Crissy was responsible for the kick-ass playlist we all grooved to on Sunday, and if you weren’t there (or you want a reminder of what tunes you heard!), here’s the full rundown:

And if you want to relive the dancing magic at home (which, obviously you do), then you can click the big ‘play’ button on the image below – we’ve uploaded the playlist to 8tracks, an awesome streaming playlist site. Check ‘em out if you haven’t, and be sure to friend us over there, too!

Thanks again to everyone who came out to dance with us this weekend, and we hope to see you all again soon! We’ll be shake-shake-shakin’ our booties for a second time this month on January 29, same time, same place. We’ll post a full event reminder soon, so stay tuned!

January Dance Party #1: Sunday 8th

Merry holidays, Dance Partiers!

after taking the month off to eat, drink, and be merry, DDPP returns with a double-whammy January — two dance parties in one month!

Join us:

Sunday Jan. 8

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*studio’s open at 3:30 and we’ll start dancing at quarter to, giving you a bit of time to change & stretch*

Mad for Dance
263 Adelaide Street West
Go downstairs and turn right
Cost = $8

- wear whatever your heart desires but something that’s good for dancing in for 75 minutes…
- there is water available there, but if I were you, I’d bring a big bottle for myself
- bring a gal pal cuz the more = the merrier

Ask us questions if you got some! Song requests welcome. And volunteer DJs for future sessions are welcome too! Email us at ddpptoronto [at] gmail [dot] com if you have a song request or are interested in putting together a playlist. It’s tons-o-fun and people tell you afterward how great your taste in music is. Rewarding!

And we’ll be back again for a second January DDPP on the 29th. Perfect for combating the wintery blahs.

See you soon and until then — happy new year!

Screw chocolate – check out this dancing advent calendar!

Okay, okay, you can still have your chocolate advent calendar, too. Goodness knows that’d be hard to give up! But I wanted to share another amazing advent calendar that I just discovered…a dancing advent calendar! Called The Art of Dancing, the calendar features two guys, Lewis and Luke, performing a spontaneous dance number on camera, one video for each day in December leading up to Christmas. So far they’ve danced to songs as wide ranging as Dick Dale’s “Misirlou”, to the White Stripes’ “Fell in Love With a Girl” to the Cantina Band song from the original Star Wars movie. The videos are super fun and have certainly gotten me to get up and dance along with them – we hope it’ll inspire you to do some office or living room dancing, too! Check out the December 1st video below, and visit The Art of Dancing site to see the rest!

P.S. In case you haven’t heard, DDPP is taking December off…you all seem to be too busy dancing at your holiday parties to dance with us! But we’ll be back in action in January with TWO dance parties: one on January 8 and one on January 29. All the usual time/date info, 263 Adelaide St. W. from 3:30-5:00 p.m. We’ll do a full announcement post closer to the date to remind y’all. Happy holidays from all of us to all of you!

It’s dancing day! Take a sneak peek at our playlist, and relive the magic at home…

Hello there dancing ladies – hope you’re all ready to cut a rug with us this afternoon! As always, we’ll be at Mad for Dance (263 Adelaide St W, downstairs to the right) from 3:30 p.m. to 5, and we always love having new dancers come to groove with us!

Here’s the playlist you’ll all be dancing to today:

Also, if you want to relive the dancing magic at home, we’ve just created an account on 8tracks, where we’ll be uploading all of our DDPP playlists, and maybe some bonus dance mixes in between sessions. Listen to this month’s mix by pressing the big play button on the image, and friend us on 8tracks if you’re also a member!

See you at 3:30!

November date set: Come dance with us on Sunday, November 27!

Photo by eych on Flickr

It’s time to dust off your dancing shoes again! Or your dancing socks! Or really, you can dance barefoot if you want to…we just want you to come dancing with us! Our next Dance Dance Party Party event is coming up on Sunday, November 27, and we can’t wait to see some new and familiar faces! Here’s all the usual deets:

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*studio’s open at 3:30 and we’ll start dancing at quarter to, giving you a bit of time to change & stretch*

Mad for Dance
263 Adelaide Street West
Go downstairs and turn right
Cost = $8

- wear whatever your heart desires but something that’s good for dancing in for 75 minutes…
- there is water available there, but if I were you, I’d bring a big bottle for myself
- bring a gal pal cuz the more = the merrier

Ask us questions if you got some! Song requests welcome. And volunteer DJs for future sessions are welcome too! Email us at ddpptoronto [at] gmail [dot] com if you have a song request or are interested in putting together a playlist. It’s tons-o-fun and people tell you afterward how great your taste in music is. Rewarding!

Also, if you’re on Twitter, don’t forget to follow us there for weekday mini dance party breaks! We’re @DDPPToronto!

DJ K-Tronic in full effect, y’all

thanks to all the dance partiers yesterday! we danced up a storm to DJ K-Tronic’s excellent set:

(My personal fave was “How You Like Me Now.” Total win.)

Our next DDPP will be on Sunday November 27th and then we break til the new year! So make sure you come on out next month.

xoxo

Come dance with us this Sunday, October 23!

Photo by 350.org on Flickr

Just a reminder that our next dance party is coming up this Sunday, October 23! We can’t wait to see some new and familiar faces! Here’s all the usual deets:

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
*studio’s open at 3:30 and we’ll start dancing at quarter to, giving you a bit of time to change & stretch*

Mad for Dance
263 Adelaide Street West
Go downstairs and turn right
Cost = $8

- wear whatever your heart desires but something that’s good for dancing in for 75 minutes…
- there is water available there, but if I were you, I’d bring a big bottle for myself
- bring a gal pal cuz the more = the merrier

Ask us questions if you got some! Song requests welcome. Rumour has it we might be having a new guest DJ this week, but if you have any requests, email us at ddpptoronto [at] gmail [dot] com and we’ll pass them along to her. And if you’d like to guest DJ for another month, let us know that, too!

P.S. Have you ladies heard of the awesome Girl Walk // All Day project? It’s a feature-length dance music video following three dancers in New York City, set to Girl Talk’s fantastic dance mash-up album All Day. They’ve just released a new movie trailer that is kick-ass awesome and makes me want to run through the streets of TO dancing. The full movie will be released in chapters on their website starting in November, or you can request a screening of it in Toronto! Check out the trailer below:

last DDPP playlist!

any dance party that starts with the one and only Ms Britney Spears is A-OK by me! and that’s why I … DJ Criss-a-Tron began this one with “I Wanna Go” — which was a highlight during Brit’s Femme Fatale concert.

onwards to the playlist!

have a request for October’s dance party? email us at ddpptoronto [at] gmail [dot] com.

xo

Introducing your newest DDPP Toronto Den Mother…and our new Twitter account!

Hey there lovely dancing ladies! This here is a short post introducing myself as DDPP Toronto’s newest Den Mother, DJ Suzie G! (My DJ name is still a work-in-progress: rockin’ name suggestions are more than welcome.) Crissy and Oonagh have wonderfully invited me to join their ranks as one of the co-organizers of Toronto’s awesomest dance party group, and I’m super ridiculously pumped to be on board! I’ve been a regular attendee at DDPP for two years now (!), and I love being able to take the dance moves I perfect in my living room and bust ‘em out in a room full of kick-ass women.

In other exciting news…we’re now on Twitter! I’m sure you all already know about our Facebook group, but now you can also chat with us in 140 characters or less. If you’re as Twitter-obsessed as we are, go follow us @DDPPToronto to chat about all things fun and dance-y. We’re going to be running an awesome daily feature called #miniDDPP where we’ll link you to a kick-ass dance break song to add some groove to your day, so stay tuned for that and be sure to tweet us your #miniDDPP suggestions, too!

Alright, well that “short” post got fairly long pretty fast, didn’t it? As a reward for reading all the way to the end, here’s a miniDDPP (featuring my all-time fave dancing song) to help kick off your weekend:

P.S. I’ve never seen that music video until just now…that was…uh…interesting. Oh, how I love the ’80s!