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Philly gets into the morning dance party scene with Best Day Ever

Would God approve of this rave?

    by Allie Volpe
    Published 

Are cascading bubbles at the chapel entrance standard prior to services? Is a scattered and sporadic arrival of neon spandex-clad partiers filtering in and out of the space kosher for this venue?

Best Day Ever is a rave with a health-focus that features DJs, dancing, and other forms of movement, such as yoga and hula-hooping. So here I was, at 6:30 a.m. on a Thursday.

“At the end of March, we were like, ‘It would be really cool if we could do a morning dance party,’” Kelemen, 24, said. It was 7:30 a.m. She was wearing cat ears a la Ariana Grande and spandex with characters from Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time printed on them. “Then by April we were like, ‘We should just do a morning dance party.’”

Jessica Schadt and Bethany Housman were waiting with hula-hoops. Schadt had heard about Best Day Ever from hooper forums on Facebook. She’d seen DJ Mambisa before and wanted to try out the early-morning hula-hoop dance/art form.