There is no place like home

24H MARATHON REVIEW & GRATITUDE

No, you are not old!

Your stiff legs, your slightly rigid backs, your burning thighs, that feeling of leftover drunkenness come Monday… These are not the signs of aging, but of a day when you were MAGNIFICENT!

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME

What does this informal motto mean, which each of you knows anyway?

Well, it probably took on its full meaning for hundreds of you during the 24h!

Indeed, didn’t you feel that incredible sensation of communion and of belonging to a community that resembles you and brings you together, on that blessed Sunday, which also marked the end of Ramadan by the natural configuration of the stars?

How lucky we were! All the conditions were met humanly, astronomically and divinely for everything to be perfect, and it was!

THANK YOU STEREO for making this possible!

Thank you for their generosity to the three masters of ceremony and bravo to Maestro Cattaneo, to the incredibly solid Simply City and to the formidable Hyunji-A aka SUDBEAT MUSIC. You were each, and all together, absolutely PERFECT!

A Rite of Passage

Today, a few days after that March 29, 2025, you probably still feel, as I do, within you that energy that passed through you during this great mass of dance, a moment when elders, regulars and new explorers of movement came together to affirm their belonging to this unique culture of kindness and sharing that is STEREO.

As Ariel pointed out to me early in the evening, a friend of Simply City and Cattaneo who came specially from Argentina for the occasion: « What is incredible here is the respect that people have for each others, the place and the music. Where I come from, people have no respects and it change the mood in the place »

Indeed, we are privileged to have Stereo in our city and accessible in this way. People come from all over the planet to live the experience of dancing with YOU!

These 24 hours of dance were a trial that everyone rose to, inspired by the joy of being there, because tuning in to the DJs and their dancers means entering perfect harmony with your environment and with those sharing this moment, to discover yourself where we are at our most beautiful.

Collective Energy As A Miracle

On the floor, the magic works.

Eyes meet, smiles spread, bodies attune, a state of wellbeing spreads, transcending individuality to plunge each person into a kind and reassuring collective consciousness.

In this environment, each person reveals their best version, carried by a reassuring and stimulating setting.

Protected by this bubble outside of time, we surrender fully to the complicity of the moment, welcoming the unexpected and new faces with natural spontaneity.

Here on the sacred floor, exchanges and sharing are woven without restraint, reaching a rare depth, far beyond what outside life usually allows. Isn’t that so?

Dance As Absolute Connection To THE GREAT WHOLE: The Collective S.O.U.L.

What a celebration of consciousness through dance and movement!

“Progressive tech” music is unique in its ability to unfold musical structures over long cycles, offering dancers deep immersion and infinite choreographic freedom. This music carries us, roots us, lifts us in a single collective breath.

In my view, and visibly so when observing the state of collective trance that eventually brings all the dancers together in a common place of unconscious consciousness, it has a hypnotic and so energetic effect

The lights, the knowing looks, the smiles spontaneously shared with strangers who actually no longer are, the dance steps exchanged in simple joy… A silent but universal language, where each being is revealed in trance and surrender, to the rhythm of the Spirit of Underground Living, the S.O.U.L! (Spirit Of Underground Living!).

DANCING BY PROXY

To all my friends who could not be there, here at home, or anywhere else in the world, know that I danced for you. And not just a little….. I FACKIN danced for you!

I spent my night of prayer running your faces, your energies and your souls through my consciousness to dance with you, for you. I blessed you with the most spectacular divine choreography my body could express, through my movements locked to divine rhythms.

I abandoned all our sins, our doubts and our wanderings on the floor to bring up FORGIVENESS, liberation, acceptance for you my friends. Of yourself, of others, of our sorrows, of our mistakes…

Through the dive of my whole being into escape by connecting to the egregore at its apex, through the many encounters from all eras with old friends or clients with whom we’ve danced for 25 years, through all the consciousness and marvellous lucidity bathing our minds, I reformatted and reconnected all I could of old uncertainties, doubts or questions, to free us from heaviness and recover the fluidity of ideas so dear to the great consciousness.

A Total Immersion

Just like you who were there, I danced alone, with others, with strangers become brothers and sisters of dance. I danced for you my friend Paul, for you Reda, for you my love Junior, for Baby Jade son of kind Arnaud, not yet a month old, Marie & Martin, Eric & Kat, Mario, Daniel Racoon my brother, Malik, my little brother Carbonneau, Kailloux, James, Sonia and Mini of Saint-Martin, Coralie my beautiful friend, for my Bunker Paradise family, you too Louis, and that of SOS, of House Nation and so many others…

Through my experience, connected to all of you reading me, through your passing in my mind even for a single instant during the night, through our experiences, the lessons and even the forgotten friends who make me up, I sent a maximum of intentions of love, peace and light to my whole immediate or distant unconscious network, centuries ago, now, yesterday or in the future, I blessed The Source for allowing these tiny connections, and made it real by granting it a thought of intention that MANIFESTS the links, the sending of energy.

DAMN did I make you dance, even if you weren’t there. I danced for you, for us humans.

In fact, some of you probably even perceived a flash of light or heard a few rhythms in your head at some point on Sunday, so much energy was I sending you…

When we are at this stage of transcendence, each piece of music allows an exploration of the self, a communion with the universal egregore, a journey through the ages and through memories. Music, in infinite waves, offers us a ground of expression where each note becomes movement, each structure a danced fresco.

You are, we are MAGNIFICENT when we all surrender to the dance.

And GOOD LORD how you danced to this music!

Dance Accessories: Accomplices of Energy

Anecdote: Somewhere around the 3rd or 4th hour probably, in full rhythmic flight, I come across this boy who is you, who is me, him, them, he is this friendly face I have met thousands of times in 25 years and with whom I formed an experience that will never be forgotten.

From two perfect strangers we tuned in and danced everywhere, and with everyone, all night long!

For the next 15 or 20 hours we shared the floor, smashed the movement and vibrated with dozens of other dancers!! It was exceptional in its intensity, and so satisfying in its truth!

No matter who I am or who he is, we are YOU, we are THEM, we are these thousands of anonymous and spontaneous encounters that come alive, discover and reveal each other through the rhythms and the bursts of light!

I introduced this new friend to the concept that we are all dance accessories for one another…. “Dance with me, and all the people you see me dancing with, if they dance with me, then don’t be shy and dance with them, you’ll see, it’ll be easy! No need to talk, just dance”

And he understood, because he filled his role very well, and made the most of the presence of the other “dance accessories”.

Explanation:

why call our friends and certain other dancers “dance accessories”?

Well: Some are precious accomplices who amplify our vibe, others inspire us, while we ourselves become catalysts of energy for those around us. No?

“Dance accessories” are not mere presences, they act as multipliers of joy and intensity. They catch and send back energy, turning it into a vibrant and powerful exchange, and bring out the dance animal in you.

Nothing equals this union, this fervour, this communion through music and movement, which charges you with energy and good vibrations before you step out of these sacred walls, back to normality.

A night, or rather a day of dance this long, allows you to meet people you don’t see often enough, at many moments in a night that never ends.

It may sometimes allow you to finally take the time here and there with people you’d like to see otherwise and more often.

The new friends, born over the night, may stay in our lives or cross paths again, without it being planned. For magic, like friendship, can’t be planned. It emerges, it builds through movements, looks, shared smiles.

So no, really…

There is really no other place like Stereo.

There is no place like Home.

All of this is the SPIRIT OF UNDERGROUND LIVING, the Spirit Of Underground Living

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