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How do I add my dance event to DanceDeets?

You will need a Facebook event with all the information, to add to DanceDeets.

  • If you're lucky, your event may have already been discovered by the DanceDeets Brain and added to the site.
  • You can use the Add Event button on our [website]](http://www.dancedeets.com/events_add) or mobile app to add your Facebook event.
  • You can also include dancedeets in your event description, to ensure DanceDeets Brain recognizes your event. You promote us, and we'll promote you.

If your event is still not showing up, double-check the location on your event. If DanceDeets can't understand the location for your event, it won't know where to show it on the site!

  • If your event takes place in multiple locations, just list the city or country that the event takes place in. This helps ensure your event shows up for people in that city. You can always list particular venue details in your event description.
  • Make sure you use something that Google Maps will understand. You can list an address, a Facebook venue, or unique names. Unfortunately, DanceDeets and Google Maps won't understand "John's house" or "The garage next to UCLA campus on Westwood Plaza". And even "5 Main Street" or "Community Center" are very ambiguous, so make sure you specify which city it's in!

How do I protect dancers who may be crossing the border at immigration?

It's unfortunate, but many countries think that keeping out foreign dancers (from competing and teaching) will help the local dance industry. And some countries (like the UK) are very rigorous, with border agents who will search your name on Google to see if you're working in their country. They sometimes even come across DanceDeets events in their searches!

Now DanceDeets can help with promoting your event to dancers, while hiding your event from Google and other search engines. Just include the words no google in your event description, and DanceDeets will hide our event page from Google and other search engines. But they'll still be perfectly visible to dancers on our website and mobile app.

Let us know if there are any problems. We want to help make sure we get this right, and the global dance scene can continue to grow and inspire!

How do you find all your events?

First, promoters and organizers can add events themselves using the Add Event button on our website and mobile app. Otherwise, the DanceDeets Brain jumps in. It's the AI that finds and adds events to DanceDeets. It pulls from a few places:

  • Most of the world: Facebook. The brain looks through a bunch of facebook Pages and Groups, as well as the events of all DanceDeets members, looking for street dance events. It uses automated keyword matching, looking for things like "house dance workshop" and "judges: buddha stretch" and "locking battle" to include on DanceDeets. It's a lot more complex than that (multilingual, spelling errors, many dancers), but it manages to find most of the events out there for inclusion on our site.
  • Korea: Street Dance Korea
  • Japan: DEWS, Tokyo Dance Life, Dance Delight, and Enter the Stage
  • Russia & China: Doesn't use Facebook, and we haven't found a high quality information source for events yet. Let us know how people promote events there!

Why aren't there many events near me?

There are a few reasons why DanceDeets may not do well in some places:

  • It's hard to find events there. Facebook isn't used in China and Russia, so it's hard for us to find many events there. Other places may use Facebook, but do event promotion via image flyers and tagging, and not Facebook events.
  • Not enough people have signed up. DanceDeets relies on the dancers who sign up to help find events. If we don't have any dancers in a given city, it will often be very difficult for DanceDeets to find many events there.
  • DanceDeets isn't perfectly multilingual. The DanceDeets Brain tries to find events automatically. It has some understanding of foreign languages, but it's not perfect. It's possible that it's overlooking dance events because it doesn't understand them yet.

Who's behind DanceDeets, and how do I reach you?

You can send us an email, hit us up on Facebook or Twitter.

  • Almost everything you see and use was developed by Mike Lambert (a dancer based out of NYC). This includes the website, mobile app, server, and DanceDeets Brain.
  • The logos and comic art was designed by Cricket (a legendary dancer based out of NYC).
  • And the old 2015 version of the iOS mobile app was built by an NYC bboy David Xiang. Though this was rewritten in 2016 by Mike to make future development easier.