Ecstatic dance at Life Bar Arcade
A pilot Sunday-morning ecstatic dance at Life Bar Arcade, Schaumburg — a bigger, more playful room. Sober, DJ-led, done by 11:30.
Led by Ecstatic Dance Suburbia cofounder Joanna Leynes.
Sunday mornings
Doors 9:30 · opening circle 9:45 · dance 10–11 · closing circle, out by 11:30
Life Bar Arcade
Schaumburg, IL
$25 per dancer
Sunday, August 16, 2026 · Sunday, August 30, 2026
We're gauging interest in a Sunday morning dance at Life Bar Arcade.
If enough dancers show up, Schaumburg gets its own Sunday morning ecstatic dance — sober, DJ-led, closing circle wrapped by 11:30. Barefoot is welcome and shoes are optional. Phones stay off the dance floor. Buy a ticket to help it happen, or just add your email so we know you'd come.
Led by Ecstatic Dance Suburbia cofounder Joanna Leynes.
Life Bar Arcade is normally a bar, but during Ecstatic Dance it is a private sober event. The bar will be closed and no alcohol will be served until after the dance has ended.
Pick a date
How many tickets?
$25 each. This is a pilot date. If it doesn't reach enough dancers, we'll move you to the other pilot date or refund you in full.
Sober container
Life Bar Arcade is normally a bar, but during Ecstatic Dance it is a private sober event. The bar will be closed and no alcohol will be served until after the dance has ended.
After the dance
Life Bar Arcade opens at 11:30, right as we finish — stick around for the vintage arcade cabinets, pinball and retro consoles. Dancers get all-day free play for $10, half off the usual price.
What to expect
Doors 9:30 AM, opening circle at 9:45, free-form dance 10–11, closing circle wrapping up by 11:30.
How to show up
Wear what lets you move. Barefoot is welcome and shoes are optional — clean indoor shoes are fine on this floor. Bring water. Phones stay off the dance floor.
The room
Life Bar Arcade
A pilot Sunday-morning ecstatic dance in Schaumburg. Two candidate dates; whichever fills becomes the regular container.
Life Bar Arcade is a Schaumburg gathering space opening its floor on Sunday mornings for a pilot ecstatic dance — the first ecstatic container of its kind in the area.
Normally a bar and vintage arcade, the room becomes a private sober event during Ecstatic Dance — the bar stays closed until after we finish, and the arcade opens at 11:30 as we wrap.
Can't wait
There's already a dance nearby
Our biweekly Sunday-morning container runs in Arlington Heights, about twenty minutes away, and Chicago Ecstatic Dance meets Wednesday nights in Logan Square.