Dance your pants off!
Don’t let those skinny jeans restrict your booty-shaking! Rip them off and dance the night away free all of inhibitions — and pants — at the “Bottomless! Pants Off Dance Off” party at the House of Yes on Jan. 7. Whatever garments you are underwearing will do for the party, but everyone must have something covering their nether regions, said one of the co-owners of the Bushwick venue.
“I think it will be really silly. People can feel inspired and liberated,” said Kae Burke. “Underwear is not specifically required but you have to wear something over your naughty bits. People are welcome to get as creative as they want with whatever they consider to be underwear.”
The pantsless dance party was inspired by three things: Tom Cruise’s iconic tighty-whitey dance scene in “Risky Business,” the annual “No Pants Subway Ride,” and House of Yes co-owner Anya Sapozhnikova’s wild birthday party over the summer.
“It was a casual kind of day, brunching, chilling, and I just thought it would be hilarious to have everyone come in their underwear because it was the middle of August, and it turned out to be really successful,” said Sapozhnikova. “It was more than a joke, and we wanted to do something more intentional this time around.”
Because this pantsless party happens in the middle of winter, the venue will provide a coat and pants check, heaters, and special shots to help people warm up and drop their inhibitions along with their trousers, while the disc jockey collective Risky Business spins its tunes, said Burke.
“There will be shot specials for people to work up their courage because sometimes it’s intimidating to prance around in your panties,” she said. “House of Yes is all about people pushing their own personal boundaries and going outside of their comfort zone.”
There will be extra options for those in basic boxers, including a crafts table for spicing up their boring undies with glitter and glam, said Burke.
“We will have underwear for sale and people can even decorate their own underwear — an underwear crafting station where people can bedazzle their own panties,” she said.
The pantsless party falls during House of Yes’s birthday weekend. A free dance party on Jan. 6 will celebrate the venue’s first year in its new space, and the underwear extravaganza simply shows how comfortable they are in their new home, said Burke.
“It’s that whole looking back and realizing ‘Wow, we really knew nothing when we opened this place,’ and now we feel comfortable, and operating also gives us that perspective of how much we have left to learn and left to grow,” she said. “It’s really incredible.”
“Bottomless! Pants Off Dance Off” at House of Yes (2 Wyckoff Ave. at Jefferson Street in Bushwick, www.house
