Due to a communications snafu, the WSAC meetup was not able to happen. Here’s hoping we can try again soon!
Despite the glitch and the late start, DJ Reaction came to the rescue with an abbreviated mix that she played back in August. And much dancing happiness was had.
Here’s the playlist. Ahh, it looks like an old message sent home from the war, with dangerous secrets carefully blacked out. What details lurk behind those black boxes? $5 to the first person to tell me what songs *weren’t* played last night:
As always, thanks to all who came out, and WSAC, hope we’ll see you soon!
This week DDPP is proud to host the Women’s Student Activist Collective (WSAC) of the University of Minnesota. What is the WSAC all about? Their mission statement:
“The purpose of the Women’s Student Activist Collective is to empower women, transgender, and gender non-conforming people to make positive changes in society by eliminating interrelated inequalities that produce oppression, with a focus on gender and sexuality.”
You can learn more about WSAC here. But you can also learn more by coming out this Thursday and meeting some of these fabulous women! Not only that, but this week only, you can dance at DDPP for the reduced rate of only $3! Holy cow!
So, come on out this Thursday night and celebrate women–ALL women–with us on the dance floor!
For months now DJ G Funk has been plagued by a lack of surround sound as the back speaker just wouldn’t work. The ladies of DDPP checked the wiring and reworked connections all to no avail until the brilliant Judie and Barb figured it out…the ipod was the cause! Now that the mystery is solved, this will be the last mix in monosound from DJ G Funk! Although slightly quiet, the ladies still rocked out the fabulous mix fiercely!!! Thanks ladies for sticking with it!
Sometimes when you’re on the dance floor, you’re there to sweat. Other nights, you can fall into a trance and just let your mind wander. I’m guessing last night was a little more of the latter, as yours truly, DJ Reaction lulled us through our ego, super-ego, and/or id with an electronica-heavy playlist. Co-den mother Michele was so “in the zone”, she didn’t even notice two lovely NEW ladies that joined us! (And let me tell you, they were troopers…without much of an introduction, they were thrown into the mix but totally let loose!)
While sidestepping through the last track, it made me wonder: does Lady Gaga get her lust for optical accessories from Elton John? I submit the following evidence:
Whatever you were thinking about, we were happy to have you out last night! Now, start thinking about this…next week’s mix will bring the return of den mother Michele!
Can’t wait, huh? Well, peruse this playlist while you contemplate just how awesome next week’s class will be!
Okay, so last week poor DJ Jazzy Jenn had to cancel her DDPP plans because her lungs looked like this:
But she was back last night, and woo, nelly! DJ JJ claimed that she wasn’t feeling 100%, but you couldn’t tell by her hot moves on the dance floor! And the songs she rocked were even more inspiring than her defeat of respiratory infection. Looks like the only medicine we need is:
(Use only as directed.)
Thanks Jazzy Jenn for another one of your incredible mixes! And, as always, thanks to all the ladies that rocked it last night. See you all next week, but until then, here’s the spoonful of sugar that helped our medicine go down!
Okay, so earlier this week, your den mothers discovered that fabulous DJ Jazzy Jenn had come down with bronchitis. Oh noes! Not only was one of our finest down for the count, but we were out of a mix as well. Yours truly was hunkering down for a late night mix-making session, when suddenly her friend Ilana came to the rescue and offered to fill in.
7pm rolled around, and a large group of ladies had assembled, hungry to dance off some steam after a three-week hiatus. The minutes ticked by, and your den mothers were starting to get a little concerned, but lo and behold, in walks Ilana–that is, DJ Free Energy Drink–in full bright red track (okay, snow) suit and backup posse behind her.
Well, let me tell you, the entrance was almost as dramatic as the beats last night–tunes pumped from the speakers that made me dance as if I had consumed a case of:
There were songs that made us think, “WTF?”, there were songs that made us think, “why didn’t I think of that?”, but almost every one of them made us think, “awesome!” DJ FED, I know I couldn’t fit into your clothes, but I would definitely love to raid your musical closet. Spectacular job, lady!
Whew! We have been having some stellar weeks here at DDPP. DJ Lux lit the torch that finished up our 2009, and DJ FED took that torch and hit the ground running. DJ Jazzy Jenn, we hope you get well soon, so that next week you can take the torch and burn the whole damn house down!
Our last DDPP of the year was brought to us by DJ Lux, who had just happened to uncover a lost holiday episode of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air:
Will was organizing a hip-hop production of the Nutcracker at his school for the holiday season, but at the last moment the show’s lead, Kevin Mitsch, was arrested for doing some nude nightswimming in a posh hotel in the Hills. Will, stressed out and bouncing off the walls, skips school to hop the Love Train to Canada, in hopes of finding a new star. While there, he runs into a kind stranger (guest appearance by Mariah Carey), who shares with him her Christmas wish for the return of her long-lost husband, disappeared after developing amnesia. She also points out that the answer Will is looking for is also right in front of him: Carlton tells Will he can fill the role, and is surprisingly a huge hit.
Crisis averted, all in time for the last commerical break!
Thanks, everyone, for an awesome year of DDPP! And thanks to DJ Lux, for rocking out the year in fantastic fashion! It was one of the sweetest mixes we’ve had yet–just imagine if we had had candy canes!
Here’s what got the dancing sugarplums out of heads and onto the floor!
This Thursday was the first ever Trans-Midwestern DDPP Mix Swap! And boy, those Chicago ladies sure know how to whoop it up! Not to mention, they aren’t afraid to get a little Riskay. And the ladies of the Twin Cities were totally game, whether we were jamming to old 70’s and 80’s hits, shakin’ our money-makers, or keeping in step to ladies that want to smell their man’s–ahem– we were walking on sunshine for almost 80 minutes. And we have steamed up windows to prove that, as always, it was pretty hot.
Thanks to all the lovely ladies that came out this week, and thanks to the ladies of DDPP Chicago for rocking our world this week. You can swap mixes with us anytime!
And just so you know, DDPP_TC is representin’ this Sunday in Chicago! Get in your cars, buy your airline tix, and get on down there Sunday afternoon!
And here’s what the Windy City likes to get down with:
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Your Den Mothers
Megan Krejny has been embarrassing herself through dance since the tender age of 6, when she performed a self-choreographed dance to Michael Jackson's "Beat It" in front of her entire grade school. Since then, she has dabbled in hip-hop, belly dancing, and tap, as well as non-dance activities such as roller derby, cooking and foreign languages. When she's not trying to be a star (in her own mind), she's looking at them through a telescope.
Michele Goddard has been breaking it down since 1983 as a tapper, ballerina, jazz artist extraordinarie. Since then, she's dabbled in modern, belly dancing and does the peppiest Hip Hop you've ever seen! In her spare time, she's a social worker and is pursuing her private pilot's license. She invites everyone to come get down with the lovely ladies of DDPP Twin Cities!
