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DECAdance: The First Night
Wunder Garten, Washington, DC · Saturday, July 25, 2026 · 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Dress: Pick your decade. Disco → Today. Come as your era.
Created by DJ DJ · Washington, DC / DMV
The First Night · Sat July 25, 2026 · Wunder Garten DC · 3–7 PMDECAdance
One Night. Five Decades. Endless Memories.
You know that song. The one that hits before your brain catches up.
DECAdance builds an entire night around that moment.
Every hour, the room shifts to a different decade. Dress your era. Find your people. Move through time together, whoever you are, wherever you came from.
Built for the culture. Open to everyone. This floor is yours.
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Disco
Mirrorball heat. Liberation. Gold light. The floor is a church.
Dress: Sequins · flares · silk
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Why DECAdance
Because under a mirrorball, everybody gets to be somebody, baby.
Because life's too short for small hair, small hooks, or small feelings.
Because keeping it real means no fronting, no sidelines, and everybody gets a verse.
Because the songs we burned to CD deserve a full-volume comeback.
Because every generation can be the main character on the same dance floor.
That's DECAdance.
Watch the Night Take Shape
The first DECAdance film drops after the first night.
Until then, move through the eras. Every panel is a taste of what happens when the room commits.
Disco
Mirrorball heat. Liberation. Gold light. The floor is a church.
80s
Neon and drama. Big hooks. Even bigger feelings.
90s
Bass in the chest. The room recognizes itself.
Y2K
Chrome. Glitter. Songs you forgot you still know every word to.
Today
Queer energy. Global rhythm. The now, and what comes next.
The Experience
Five Steps. One Night. Every Memory.
Step 01
Pick your era.
The decade that raised you. Shaped you. Or the one you missed and always wanted.
Step 02
Dress the part.
Sequins, leather, denim, chrome, mesh. Whatever makes the memory visible on your body.
Step 03
Dance through five decades.
Every hour, the room changes. New sound. New energy. New version of the night.
Step 04
Find your people.
One floor. Many generations. The shared recognition of a song that hits everyone differently and the same way all at once.
Step 05
Leave with a memory.
Not just a great night. A song you'll hear next week and immediately be back in this room.
Who are you here?
DECAdance is one experience with five doors. Find yours.
The Eras
Choose Your Era
Disco · '70s
This is your era if you've always believed the dance floor is a church, a runway, and a release valve, all at once. You're not wrong.
Dress · Sequins · flares · silkSound · Disco · Soul · Funk
Vibe
Liberation, glamour, mirrorball heat, communal movement.
Room cue
Warm light. Disco ball drops. The first big collective groove.
Photo moment
The spin. The beam. The laugh mid-floor.
Dress
Metallics, flares, sequins, silk, open collars, Studio 54 energy.
Think , Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer. The foundation everything else was built on.
Where this comes from
Born in Black, Latino, and queer spaces. The floor we're building tonight started there, and we don't forget it.
Disco
Mirrorball heat. Liberation. Gold light. The floor is a church.
Discover the decades
Don't read about it. Open it.
Five artifacts. Five decades. Tap one.
Run of Show
The Night Journey
Every transition is intentional. The room shifts. The music shifts. The crowd feels it, and the next memory starts before the last one fades.
Calendar
Upcoming Dates
Confirmed · First Night
DECAdance: The First Night
Saturday, July 25, 2026 | 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Wunder Garten | Washington, DC
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Tell us where to find you. Dates, city announcements, merch drops, era invitations.
No noise. Just the next reason to show up.
Before the Night
Show up already inside it.
Pick your era. Get your fit. Roll your anthem. Post your card. Bring the friend who always says yes.
Pick your era
Choose the decade that's calling you. Everything below shifts.
Outfit inspiration
- Studio 54 shineSequins, satin, wide collar, mirrored anything. Bring the sparkle.
- Halston flowJumpsuit, single color, one bold accessory. Move without thinking about it.
Anthem picker
Chic, Good Times
Your walk-in song. If it comes on, the floor is yours.
The Wall
What actually happened.
The floor keeps its own memory. Leave one behind. Read the ones already here.
Your City
Your City. Your Floor.
Your city is next. Here's how it starts.
Every DECAdance city edition began with someone raising their hand.
For Business
Partners
DECAdance is a public experience, but it's designed to work for the people who build rooms for a living. Venues, sponsors, promoters, and brands can enter this format without flattening what makes it special.
A format that fills your room and gives people a reason to come back.
You know your room. We bring a format built to hold it for hours and reset the energy every hour on the hour.
Cross-generational pull
Disco to Today reaches guests your regular programming misses.
Built-in bar spend
Nostalgia crowds stay the full night. Each era transition resets the energy.
Repeatable by design
One test night becomes a monthly or quarterly residency.
The numbers that live in the room
Discovered, not delivered.
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Floor fill rate
peak-hour capacity across DECAdance test nights.
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Bar spend lift
vs. a standard programmed night in the same room.
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Repeat visits
of first-timers return within 60 days of a DECAdance.
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Dwell time
longer than the venue's Saturday average.
Composite data from residency and pop-up formats across DC-area rooms. Your venue's numbers modeled on request.
Contact
Bring DECAdance to Your Room
Interested in hosting, sponsoring, booking, or partnering? Tell us what you're building.
Coming Soon
The DECAdance Shop
Era-inspired merch. City editions. Limited drops. Pieces made for the floor, and the morning after.
Coming when the first night drops.
Era TeesHatsWristbandsCity EditionsLimited DropsDance Floor Essentials
Founder
Created by DJ DJ
Founder
Derrick Johnson II
DECAdance was created by Derrick Johnson II, also known as DJ DJ, a Washington, DC and DMV-based DJ, creative director, and experience strategist with 25 years of building moments people don't forget.
As a DJ, he knows what it takes to move a room. As an experience architect, he knows how to build a format that travels. DECAdance is where both of those things became one room, and one idea that can scale to any city ready for it.
DJ DJ is the sound. Derrick is the structure. DECAdance is where both of them walk into the same room.