Future Footwerk Dance Party

Future Footwerk is a dance party celebrating footwork, a Chicago-born electronic dance music style characterized by its blindingly fast 160BPM and rapid rhythms that make you wanna dance! This party brings Chicago to Durham with a look toward the future–expanding the footwork sound as a Black electronic tradition.

Future Footwerk is a collaborative partnership between Sonic Essence and ROBOTICALEE that follows in the footsteps of Detroit-Durham Connection and Booty Break (our ghettotech series), two series that uplift and celebrate the contributions of Black music pioneers that laid the groundwork for the international electronic music scene we hold dear today.

Join a night of footwork & body moving rhythms with a stacked lineup of NC-based DJs!

21+

FEATURING:

ROBOTICALEE (Chapel Hill)

Baby Cousin Tay Tay b2b DJ Roselle (Asheville)

Aumnï (Charlotte)

Dymira Decadent (Raleigh)

Sonic Essence is a QTBIPOC-led music collective based in Durham, North Carolina. Rooted in community, we curate dance-floor–driven experiences that center Black and Brown electronic lineages and create space for radical free expression, embodied release, and connection. Founded in 2022, we are known for high-energy, body-forward experiences that cultivate collective joy.