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Barefoot Boogie
Category: Nightlife Dance Clubs Dance Clubs [Edit]
8th Street Studios2525 8th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
(415) 820-1452
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- DJ
- Best Nights:
- Sun
- Happy Hour:
- No
- Alcohol:
- No
- Coat Check:
- No
2 reviews for Barefoot Boogie
2 reviews in English
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Review from Miles H.
Oakland, CA
11/15/2011
Not sure I've ever been to Sunday night BB in Berkeley. Dropped in Sunday night as I saw in a listing that Zora was the DJ. Zora was superb, with inspired music choices and dancing continually herself by the DJ station. The dancers (not a large crowd, maybe 30) seemed to be mostly regulars who knew each other, but they were welcoming and inclusive of me as a newbie (which is not always true at dance gatherings as a tall male with grey hair). A wide range of ages, about balanced in gender -- a delightful community.
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Review from guyMystique g.
San Francisco, CA
6/8/2010
I went into this night feeling exhausted from the long week and shopping all day. The cold and rain didn't help much either but you can park right next to the main door easily in this safe neighborhood. I'm a freestyle ectstatic dancer, I dance at three different studios a week and I entered last night exhausted and damp from the rain.
As I came through the red curtain shear over the doorway at 7:45 PM I was immediately transformed into a room of twenty dancers doing yoga stretch warm-up. I joined in and soon I was ready for a dance evening like I haven't had in a long time. This venue does the slow start, fast middle, and medium speed wind down. I began my night with the stretch.
What followed can best be described as a wonderful warm dance energy where modern dance meets contact improv and barefoot boogie/freestyle with some flamboyance of Ecstatic Dance thrown in. The DJ sets the mood. Tonight seemed romantic and warm with the heater cooking us away on a Sunday rainy night.
Thank you DJ Clari, and whatever theme that was last night, bring it back again. You were good, and even though this Monday morning I ache from all the leaping and stretching, I am inspired to write this in recognition of a wonderful way to start the week - recharged and cleaned out!
