For $5 at the door you can be a part of a dance phenomenon taking place in seventeen cities in six countries. Though relatively unheard of in Chicago, No Lights No Lycra offers something new to the city: a public living room to dance in. ![]() Some classic club tracks, some oldies, electronica, hip hop –anything you can dance to, but more obscure than Top 40. “It’s not a meat market, we get about a 50/50 male to female mix a lot of men in their thirties who just want to get comfortable dancing.”Īs for music, Whitney or whatever guest DJ they have plays an eclectic mix. Types of people who go to NLNL may be surprising. After a month-long search to find a venue that was both willing and up to code, she discovered Defibrillator in Bucktown, which has become the new home. “You feel like you’re on a playground – liberated” When she moved back to Chicago last year life was lacking NLNL. You can also put an anchor link in an email, chat, or. While living in Brooklyn Whitney’s boss told her about a great way to relieve stress, and took her to NLNL in the basement of a cathedral. You can put anchor links within a Quip document to point readers to other parts of that same document. The movement spread to Chicago this winter by the hand of Chicagoland native, Whitney Richardson. NLNL, from its inception, is not a venue for professionals to practice or singles to mingle, but a place for everybody to move freely. The name comes from the fact that the venue is as dark as possible, clearly, but the Lycra part has to do with the uniforms the dancers have to wear as part of their vocation. Services performed but unrecorded at March 31 totalled 8,000. On April 3, DigiTech collected the rent accrued on March 31. ![]() E-Quip had not paid the March rent as at March 31. Part of the building is rented to E Quip Company for 3,950 per month. They sought a dance experience that was removed from the hum-drum of rehearsals and coordinated movements familiar to them and their fellow students, but also not like a dance club, where alcohol and social expectations limit a person’s ability to move as freely as they are able to. Digitech owns the building that it occuples. No Lights No Lycra is an international dance party started by two dance students in Melbourne Australia. ![]() It’s dark, they serve no booze or drugs, you wear what you want, and the base is turned all the way up. Every Tuesday at 7pm until 10pm the stressed out and energetic mass of Chicago can head to Wicker Park on Milwaukee and the Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery for a chance to move and dance as if it’s a basement sleepover with your best friends. Picture a young woman who just got off work – all stressed out, pent up with energy pulsing from the seams of her shirt to her blue suede shoes – she needs a release that the gym, and Tae-Bo cannot offer.Įnter No Lights No Lycra.
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