About Dance Traveler

Facebook events. Outdated websites. Discord channels. WhatsApp groups. Instagram posts.

You're interested in dancing. You've seen videos online or a friend mentioned their fun at salsa nights. So you start searching.

What you find is information scattered across platforms.

You find websites with outdated class schedules. Events are announced on Facebook, venue changes on Instagram, while community conversations flow through Discord. Groups of dance friends create WhatsApp and Facebook groups, yet they are isolated from the main organizers. And workshops are promoted via email newsletters.

It's not complicated. Just unnecessarily fragmented. For existing dancers, it's a minor inconvenience. For newcomers, it's a confusing maze that keeps them from discovering the joy of dance.

For a decade, dance has existed in digital fragments using general purpose tools never designed for our needs. We've adapted because we had to. We just wanted to dance.

The cost: A disconnected landscape where only those with insider connections get the full experience.

Why This Matters

Dance isn't just a hobby. It's medicine for modern life.

In a world where loneliness has reached epidemic levels, dance offers genuine connection. It's one of the few spaces where platonic touch is normalized. For many, especially men in Western societies, it may be their only source of physical connection outside romantic relationships.

Dance engages us completely: socially, mentally, physically. It builds communities while teaching us to communicate without words. Beyond entertainment, it strengthens the body, sharpens the mind, and reduces stress.

In an age of digital distraction, dance reconnects us to our bodies, to music, and to each other. This holistic engagement makes dance not just an activity, but a powerful remedy for modern ailments.

The truth: We have the perfect antidote to our isolated, screen-dominated existence, but it remains overlooked by too many.

Without connections with existing dancers, dance curious people struggle to get the full picture. Their barriers aren't about finding events, but finding confidence to attend:

The result: Too many potential dancers never take their first class.

Why "Dance Traveler"?

The name reflects a milestone in dancers' journeys. When dance becomes more than casual interest, we travel for it crossing cities and countries to experience new styles and connect with diverse communities.

This journey transforms casual participants into lifetime enthusiasts.

The name also addresses a practical need: dancers need reliable information most when in unfamiliar territory whether new to dance entirely or exploring a new city. Dance Traveler aims to be that trusted global resource.

The Vision: United Yet Unique

Feeling comfortable in attending a dance class today requires a dance friend or a lot of bravery. You need to know which platform holds which piece of the puzzle. Without this knowledge, you're left with an incomplete picture.

Dance Traveler unifies the world's dance information into a single platform, providing detailed context and guidance to help newcomers discover, learn about, and feel comfortable attending dance events, while empowering communities to build their own tools using this global centralized dance information.

We're building a world where finding your perfect dance community is intuitive.

Every dance genre has its own language, customs, and community structure. Lindy hoppers perform “Jam Circles” while breakers organize “cyphers”. Ballet has rigid level progressions while contact improvisation embraces fluid boundaries.

This diversity is our strength. I don't want to change it. I want to make it accessible to everyone.

Dance Traveler will provide a single home where all aspects of dance communities can be discovered without needing insider status. For organizers, it means reaching beyond existing networks. For dancers, it means finding communities they might never have encountered through fragmented channels.

For those still on the sidelines, it means enough trusted information to take that brave first step.

For Dancers, By Dancers

Dance organizers currently juggle multiple platforms, reposting the same information across disconnected spaces. Each update means repeating yourself multiple times. Dance Traveler lets you update once and reach everyone.

To fellow dancing developers: I know many of you have dreamed of building the perfect app for your community, and I know a few of you who are working on it now. But you're already running classes, organizing events, and growing your dance scenes. Getting technology off the ground, gathering adoption, and funding it can be challenging.

I want to give developers the tools they need to build their own applications for dancers, whether that is a housing organization service, workshop management platform, one-click registration setup, or maybe a way for new dance organizations to startup in a weekend.

Whatever technology you dream you can build using the global database of dance events, API services, and even UI App templates.

Together, we can build a global platform that preserves what makes each dance community special while helping more people discover the life changing benefits of dance.

The world needs dance now more than ever. Let's make it easier to begin.