"We’re bored of going to the same places and just getting a DJ in a dark room," says Harrison Ramhofer, half of the collective. "It inspires us to create a party we would want to attend."
Composed of Ramhofer and Ammy Juliet Garcia, Late for Work has launched a series of "experimental dance parties" across the city — everything from a fetish-themed "dungeon dance party" at a hitherto undiscovered basement inside the 777 Mall, to Technoir, a late-night neo-future drag fantasy at Coyo Taco. But their latest monthly at Las Rosas might be their most unusual and surreal effort to date."I've always had a thing for contortionists," Garcia says. The idea for Flex, a new dance party every third Thursday at Las Rosas, was born out of her love for the sort of hyperflexible, spandex-clad performance artists typically associated with the circus. It's
"There’s this one lady at the YouFit [gym] on 79th [Street]," Garcia says of Rita Bello, Flex's inaugural performer. "She's
Flex. With DJs Ebony Denim and Thugpussy,