View Full Article In the basement of the Rhino Room, led by the friendly people of No Lights No Lycra Adelaide, participants are free to dance or move however they wished for an hour – in the dark. As the name suggests, there are no lights allowed – including mobile phones or smart watches. NLNLis a judgement-free zone, after …
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View Full Article How does “going to a nightclub for Yoga classes” sound? Pretty neat, right? This is the upcoming New York City party scene trend. When a friend asks me: “Do you want to go out tonight to nightclub?” or “Let’s go for Happy Hour after work?”, they clearly mean some cool party or a great place in town …
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View Full Article Some of the most purely joyful moments I’ve had in the past couple years have come while dancing. Sometimes at contra dances, which are nerdy and sweaty and call for you to surrender to the pleasure of forming patterns in a group. Also at No Lights No Lycra, a weekly dance party (held in cities around the world) where …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE On Thursday night, I did something seriously out of character. I danced. I, er, bopped side to side because I’m an incredibly awkward human. And then I danced like I was 18 again in the clubs. And like I was headbanging at a rock concert. And I did all of this in a room full of …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE It’s mental health week across Mount Alexander and there’s no better time to put on your dancing shoes and lose yourself to dance! CONTINUE READING
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE Getting Fit in the Dark in Newtown Learn the secret to joyously moving your bod in a room full of sweaty strangers at 7.30pm on a weeknight – no wine necessary. On a Thursday evening in Newtown, a community hall on Church Street slowly fills with people. The lights are low and loud music blares from …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE No Lights No Lycra Is Taking Over The Sydney Opera House For All About Women Dance sensation No Lights No Lycra will bring an end to this year’s All About Women festival in March. No Lights No Lycra is a dance community that began in Melbourne and is now found at over 76 locations around the …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE No Light No Lycra to be held every Wednesday at Mayfair TAMARA HOWIE, NT News February 17, 2016 5:25pm DARWIN movers and shakers can let loose at this year’s first No Light No Lycra. The night of dancing in the dark with no rules struck a chord with Darwin locals at the few events held last …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE Dance how you like at the Capricorn Coast class YOU might not hear Billy Idol’s Dancing With Myself if you go to a No Lights No Lycra class, but that’s the feeling you may experience. Which is what the worldwide movement is all about – connecting with yourself in free movement. Yeppoon’s Julie Barratt, who has …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE Have you ever wanted to dance like nobody’s watching – with other people? Well now you can! No Lights No Lycra (NLNL) is a global dance movement originally started in Melbourne by dance students Alice Glenn and Heidi Barrett in 2009, founded on the belief that everyone can dance. Tired of critiquing themselves in the mirror, …
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VIEW ARTICLE HERE Best events in Stonnington & Boroondara this week NO LIGHTS NO LYCRA Explore your senses and embrace the art of dance with No Lights No Lycra (NLNL) in Boroondara. NLNL is a global dance community that believes everyone can dance. There are no lights, no lycra, no teacher, no steps and no techniques – just free movement …
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VIEW ARTICLE HERE Lights out, it’s time for dancing – No Lights No Lycra Tuesday, 15 September, 2015 Residents and school children across Boroondara will dust off their dancing shoes and join in the fun when the expressive dance movement No Lights No Lycra comes to town in October. The brainchild of self-professed unruly dance students, Alice Glenn and Heidi …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE No Lights No Lycra Launches in Beijing: Shame-Free Dancing in the Name of Charity Margaux Schreurs | Apr 12, 2016 1:00 pm | Add a comment | 1051 reads Starting April 18, No Lights No Lycra (NLNL) comes to Beijing. The concept is very simple: you dance around in the dark for an hour, to a …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE Last night at 8pm I sat on a stage in a church basement in Greenpoint with Laura O’Neill, co-founder of Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream and the delicious and handsome Balinese-inspired restaurant, Selamat Pagi; but, more importantly for those of us who spend Tuesday nights inside the Park Church Co-Op across the street from McGolrick Park, O’Neill is also known …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE Fitness Cheats for the Colder Months 12TH MAY 2016 BY HOLLY BODEKER-SMITH NO LIGHTS NO LYCRA It’s said that dance is the purest form of expression, but what about dancing in a pitch-black room full of strangers? That’s an entirely different realm. No Lights No Lycra fosters exactly that – it doesn’t ask you to follow …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE DANCERS who want to let loose without being judged are flocking to a church hall in Newtown for an event called No Lights No Lycra. The event was started in Melbourne, before being brought to Sydney just over a year ago by ambassadors Ash Maher and Jodie Fisher. The event provides a space where people can …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE THE VERDICT No Lights No Lycra in Perth is THE place to go to truly dance like no one is watching—because it’s pitch black and no one is watching! Every Monday night at Leederville Town Hall you can put on your dancing shoes and dance the night away—alcohol free and judgment free. While it might take a song or two to …
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE HERE NO LIGHTS, NO LYCRA IS THE PLACE WHERE THE GANGNAM STYLE, THE RUNNING MAN AND SELF-TAUGHT BALLET STEPS ARE WELCOME. THE NON-JUDGMENTAL DANCE CLASSES HAVE FILLED VENUES ACROSS THE WORLD WITH ZEALOUS PEOPLE, UNCOORDINATED MOVEMENTS AND CATCHY TUNES TO PROMOTE UNREPRESSED SELF-EXPRESSION. WHAT’S THE SECRET TO HAVING THE CONFIDENCE TO JOIN SUCH AN EVENT? THESE …
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READ FULL ARTICLE HERE We’ve found a way to exercise while having fun. You heard right – an intense cardio workout that has you smiling the whole time. An excuse to put your dancing shoes on and not feel guilty for going out. No Lights No Lycra (NLNL) is a community that is dancing its way around the world, after …
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VIEW WEBSITE HERE Dancing in the Dark No Lights No Lycra Theres no better feeling than putting on your favourite song and dancing like no-ones watching. Free of criticism, technique and self-consciousness, you can twist and shout the Back in 2009, trained dancers Alice Glenn and Heidi Barrett did exactly that. One quiet weeknight, they pushed open the doors to …
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Click HERE to view full article Welcome to cool Melbourne – your guide to the cutting edge of cool around town FROM bars, boutiques, a bookstore and a barber shop to a dance class with a difference, we’ve tracked down 25 gems you’re unlikely to find in the guide books but will have you on the cutting edge of cool. …
Read More »NLNL Melbourne is super excited to announce our FEBRUARY GUEST MIXES Melbourne’s hottest up and coming musos compile their best mixes for your dancing pleasure.. 7pm, Wednesdays in February 49 Nicholson Street, East Brunswick Banoffee 4 February 2015 Harpoons 11 February 2015 Chela 18 February 2015 Total Giovanni 25 February 2015
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November 17, 2012
Peppercorn Lawn Melbourne CBD
No Lights No Lycra and Melbourne Music week invites you to join us for the ULTIMATE DANCE BATTLE The loose, uninhibited movers of NLNL VS Lycra-clad, audience hungry, sexy booty shakers At 6pm on Saturday the 17th of November Bright lights v’s no lights – bring either your baggy cotton trackies or your sexy Lycra gear and take a side. …
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2-4-1 tomorrow the 28th and also if you say the password ‘Preston’ at the box office you get $15 tickets on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th. All the details are below and the facebook event When: 28th Sept – 5th Oct (not 1st) | Time: 7.45pm (6.45pm Sun) | Tickets: $20/$17 Where: Fringe Hub – The Ballroom – Lithuanian Club …
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Heavenly Bodies is a new weekly night at Rooftop Bar with dance workshops hosted by professional fun starters: The Silver Bullets and DIY darlings No Lights No Lycra. Followed by DJ sets from Architecture In Helsinki, Two Bright Lakes Djs and many more. It’ll be fun as shit and won’t cost you a cent! 7pm til late. Friday nights from …
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Last wednesday night after the normal class we got permission from everyone to turn the lights on and get some footage for a documentary about dance. While the professionals were doing their thing I shot this little video for us to have. Happy Birthday NLNL its been 4 years of pure joy!!!!
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Come join us after work for a boogie. 6.30 – 7.30 pm 1000 pound bend 361 LT LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE VIC 3000 $7 please try and bring correct change if possible.
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In early April, NLNL flew to Darwin for National Youth Week. We ran workshops and discussions over four nights with youth aged between 15 – 25. Thankyou so much to City of Darwin for having us, for all the Launch Youth Volunteers who organised the whole event, and to all the young people who came and danced their hearts out …
Read More »No Lights No Lycra’s performance inspired by The Dance Plague of 1518 The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of the people died from …
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TICKETS ON SALE NOW THROUGH MOSH TIX BUY TICKETS HERE Beautiful Ormond Hall – Lets bring it back to life!!!
Read More »Tonight No Lights hits Flinders Street Station’s Campbell Arcade for Dance Class, a three hour-long extravaganza as part of Melbourne Music Week. Everybody’s favourite urban thoroughfare will be transformed from 6 until 9 into a subterranean dance palace where No Lights dance mavens can shake their thing for free. Aside from the traditional No Lights dancing in the dark, DJs …
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No Lights No Lycra is turning 5 years old and we’re celebrating with LIVE MUSIC IN THE DARKHello Satellites Partial Giovanni (part of Total Giovanni) The Harpoons LA Descarga Wednesday 11th June EAST BRUNSWICK NLNL 49 Nicholson St 7 – 9.30 pm $10 Only so many people can fit in the hall so come early to make sure yo get in!!
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