partyparty party hard / i view partying with fond regard

hey DDPPers! here’s the playlist from today’s session. soooo fun and now i could sleep for days!

If you’d like to join our mailing list, email me at crissycalhoun [at] gmail [dot] com and I’ll add you. And our Facebook group is here!

Oonagh and I are talking about trying out a different day & time for Le DDPP: a weekday evening from 7:00 to 8:30. That may be easier for people to make it out to, especially during the summertime when we’re all at cottages jumping in lakes and so on and so forth. Stay tuned; we’re sorting it out with the kind folks at Mad for Dance.

xoxo
DJ Criss-a-Tron

save the date! July 19

yo yo, DDPPers. we’ve just booked the studio for the next throw down

Saturday July 19th
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Mad for Dance
263 Adelaide St. West, between John and Duncan on the south side
(once inside, go downstairs and turn right)
$8

mark your calendars, practice your moves, this will be (once again and as always) awesomesauce!

xoxo
DJ Criss-a-Tron

p.s. I have a few photos from the last one to post! stay tuned….

oh it’s ddpp day, the best day there is

hola! T minus two hours til dance party time.

Mad for Dance
263 Adelaide St. West, between John and Duncan on the south side
(once inside, go downstairs and turn right)
$5

i’m DJ’ing today and have been wanting to start a DDPP with the slow build of “Proud Mary” for a while so we’ll see if this works. I think it may turn out to be genius.

see you soon for some double cool with bells fun.

xoxo
crissy

this SATURDAY = Dance Party Extravaganza

we’re back in action this Saturday and DJ Criss-a-Tron (that’s me!) will be dropping the beats.

Saturday June 14th
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Mad for Dance
263 Adelaide St. West, between John and Duncan on the south side
(once inside, go downstairs and turn right)
$5

for those bookish/publishing types, this is a special Book Expo Canada edition…which means I’ll try to put some booky songs on there. Suggestions welcome!

lurve and sundry
xoxo
calhoun

playlist from last DDPP

hey ladies,

here be the debut playlist from MC O.D.!

1999
What I like about you
It’s Raining Men
Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Twist And Shout
What’s on Your Mind
born to be alive
All Day And All Of The Night
my definition
You Gonna Want Me
don’t stop till you get enough
You don’t love me
Dancin With Myself
Living On Video
Lady Marmalade
The old folks
Please Don’t Stop the Music
Need You Tonight

fun, fun, fun in the laughternoon

today’s the day! the sun is shining — no snowstorms, no TTC strikes and i’m not checking the news to see if there’s any impending apocalypse (locusts, hellmouth opening…) about to hit our fair city. it’s all about the Dance Dance Party Partying in a new spot, Mad for Dance (263 Adelaide St. W, downstairs).

and don’t forget that Oonagh will be debuting as DDPP DJ. i’ll post her sweet set list here after you’ve all gone really mental on the dance floor to the stylins of …. MC O.D.

xoxo
crissy

p.s. post title stolen from a really bad show i saw once in vegas

may edition of DDPP: the 31st

alright! we’ve found a new place to try out for the next DDPP and here are the confirmed details:

Saturday May 31st
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Mad for Dance
263 Adelaide St. West, between John and Duncan on the south side
(once inside, go downstairs and turn right)
$5

Oonagh’s going to be bringing the beats this time and she’s hard at work on the playlist but also (more importantly?) on her kickass DJ name. stay tuned for that.

and if ya wanna dress up for the DDPP, bring it on — headbands, neon, legwarmers, whatever it is you wish you could wear everyday but for whatever reason don’t…now’s your time. i have some shiny purple leggings i need to debut…

see you soon!

lurve,
crissy

The Return of DDPP!

Success! Just back from a killer Dance Dance Party Party session. I shoulda known that despite the TTC strike (which seems to already be over?), the ladies would be out and working up a dance-fever. it was fun to not know some of the women in the room and to see such kickass enthusiasm (despite the hot, hot room).

once again, we kicked off with “get into the groove”; here be the rest of the playlist (it’s legible if you click on it):

Oonagh & I will figure out the next date and location and post it here, on the facebook group, and send it out on our burgeoning mailing list. (To join, drop me a note at crissycalhoun at gmail dot com.)

lurve,
DJ Criss-a-Tron

TTC Strike + DDPP = It’s On!

I’m checking with the folks at Hannan’s Dance Studio to make sure someone will be there to open the door for us…. Otherwise we’re still on for tomorrow; I’ll grab a cab over there and cross my fingers that some of you are bikers, cabbers, walkers or drivers.
xoxo
dj criss-a-tron

**update: Studio’s open and DDPP is on for suresy.

G&M + DDPP

A lovely reporter from the Globe & Mail did a piece on the Vancouver chapter and included a wee interview with me in it too!

Read it here.

Since then our fledgling blog has had a million more hits* and the facebook group (which you can join here) has 20-odd new members! Thanks y’all!

See you on the 27th!

xoxo
Crissy

*a rough estimate of the increase in site hits…