Why did house dancing leave the club? | Resident Advisor

Our latest film looks at a tradition as old as house music itself. Subscribe to the RA YouTube channel: In the early days of house music, dancers took their craft just as seriously as the DJs. What emerged became known as house dancing, a freeform style that elevates self-expression and personality as much as technique. DJ Qu, who provided valuable insights to RA on this film, started house dancing around 1987. (He’s one of a handful of dancers who went on to become successful DJs and producers, alongside the likes of Joey Anderson and Seven Davis Jr.) Attending clubs like Zanzibar and The Path in New Jersey and Kilimanjaro’s, The Choice, Mars and Sound Factory in New York, he was drawn to “the way house dancers incorporated so many different dancing styles to house music, but did it in a way that was super graceful and complimented the music.“ “It was a special time for music and dance,“ he says. Long before the current global pandemic closed down most of the world’s nightclubs,