Club shows in Tel Aviv

A club set in a living room: what it actually is

This style comes from a club floor rather than a theatre, and that explains almost everything about it. There is no character, no arc and no long pauses. There is a tempo that starts high and stays there, wide movement, and interaction with the whole room rather than with one person.

Anyone who has been in a club recognises it immediately. The only difference is that here it happens in your living room, two metres away, without two hundred people blocking the sightline.

It is the furthest style from burlesque, which is built on silence and a slow build, and from lap dance, which is built on closeness to one person. In burlesque the tension is made; here it exists from the first second.

Why it needs space

This is the style's real requirement and it is not a whim. Wide movement means the dancer covers ground inside the number: long lines, turns, changes of direction. In a two-by-two-metre square it compresses and loses exactly what makes it impressive.

What is needed in practice: three metres by three of clear floor, and more is better. A seventy-metre living room in Holon or a rented house in Kfar Saba is the ideal case. A three-room flat in Neve Tzedek is almost never it, and there we will suggest something else.

The floor matters too: hard and smooth. A thick rug swallows movement and fights heels, and a lawn simply does not work.

Sound: the thing that ruins this style most often

In every other style a portable speaker does the job. Here it is the number one cause of a mediocre evening.

A club set is built on bass. If the bass is not felt in the room, what remains is fast dancing with nothing holding it up, and the audience does not come along either. A phone speaker or a small Bluetooth unit flattens the whole thing.

What works: a system with a subwoofer, a television soundbar, or a large portable speaker of the kind people take to the beach. If you are not sure, tell us what you have and we will say whether it is enough or whether another style suits the evening better.

Note that this collides directly with neighbours. In an older building it is a recipe for a knock at the door, which is why this style usually goes together with a private house, a large space or a cabin.

The one style that gets better the more of you there are

In most of our styles a large group is a problem to be solved. Here it is the reverse.

A club set feeds on the audience: people who cheer, clap and move add to it rather than getting in the way. Five people in a living room will see good dancing. Twenty people will see the same dancing and get an atmosphere that five cannot produce.

So this is the first style we suggest for larger bachelor parties and for evenings where the group is already going. Above twelve guests a duo show is also worth considering: two dancers in a large space give this format more than double.

How it fits into the evening

Very few evenings are built from club sets alone, and that is about attention rather than any limitation.

High energy sustained for forty minutes flattens out — the room gets used to it and stops reacting. The structure that works: open with a club set to lift the room, drop into another style in the middle, come back for the finish. What fits well in the middle: lap dance for whoever is being celebrated, or burlesque if part of the room wants to watch quietly.

The formats and timings are on the shows page.

Neighbours, said honestly

This is the loudest style we have and there is no point pretending otherwise.

In a private house with the windows shut it is not an issue. In a flat in an older building, one time in ten, it is. The difference is not the show but the bass: it travels through floors and ceilings better than any other frequency, and that is exactly what the neighbour below hears.

What we do about it: if you are in a residential building we will suggest pulling the bass down and pushing the tempo up instead, or simply choosing another style. Our dancers work both versions, and either beats an evening cut short.

Costume and kit

What arrives: a club look — bodysuit, short skirt, boots or high heels, sometimes something that catches light. Less costume and more look, unlike cosplay or pin-up, which are built around a character.

What we need from you: space, a hard floor and music. No chair, no pole and no special lighting — the ordinary room light, dimmed, is entirely enough.

Common mistakes

Booking it into a small room. The most common one. If your living room is forty square metres, choose something else and enjoy it more.

Relying on a phone speaker. Written above and worth writing twice, because it happens every week.

Building the whole hour on it. Forty minutes of continuous energy is too much for any audience.

Booking it for a mixed group who do not know each other. A club set assumes the room reacts. If the group is polite and quiet, the show is left hanging in the air. Burlesque is better there.

Where people book it

Most of all in Holon, Ashdod, Modiin and Kfar Saba — where the flats are large and the buildings newer. In the lofts of Florentin it works excellently, provided there is something to play it through.

You can go through the full catalogue with each dancer's styles, or just tell us the size of the room, how many of you there are and what you have for sound. The price follows the format rather than the style and is set out on the prices page.