halloween · día de los muertos edition
THE PORTAL
a silent disco halloween party
hosted by Andie & Maude
save your spotor book it free in the KUUMA app: Book → Oct 31
one channel, one room
tonight everyone is on the same channel. one DJ journey, the whole room moving to the same beat.
costumes optional
come dressed up, come in sweats. it's a halloween party, so do whatever makes you feel like you.
dance or just hang
take breaks whenever you want. headphones off, chat, socialize, come back in. no one is keeping score.
toys for shy dancers
silk fans, slinkies, LED whips and other flow arts toys to play with. something in your hands makes it easy to start.
beginners welcome
no steps to learn, no wrong way to move. if you've never danced in public before, this is the night.
totally free
our gift for halloween. bring a friend, bring your whole crew. just save a spot so we have enough headphones.
why we dance in sync
the science says the beat brings us together.
the quiet room is the trick. when everyone hears the same music at the same moment, something social happens. researchers have been using silent disco headphones to prove it.
you notice each other
dancers who shared the same music remembered more about each other than dancers listening to something different on the same dance floor.
Woolhouse, Tidhar & Cross · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
you connect more
when partners heard the beat at exactly the same time, they rated their interaction higher and literally turned to look at each other more often.
Bamford, Burger & Toiviainen · Music & Science, 2023
you feel part of something
in a Canadian study of 180 people, silent disco parties sparked spontaneous interaction, bridged generations and built a real sense of community. joy, just for its own sake.
Hung et al. · University of British Columbia, 2024 to 2026
your brain naturally locks onto rhythm and starts predicting the next beat. put a whole room on one channel and everyone's brain is keeping the same time. that's the portal.
what is the portal?
our guided ecstatic dance experience at KUUMA: 90 minutes of music, lasers, fog and light, led by a DJ who takes the room on a journey. every portal is themed differently, so it changes with the DJ and whoever is hosting. not a rave, not a pickup scene, not a substance thing. the only thing altered here is your state.
el día de los muertos
day of the dead is a celebration of remembering the people we love, with marigolds, candlelight, colour and music. we're borrowing its spirit of joyful remembering: dance for someone you miss, or just dance.