Project GLOW’s Secret Garden of Dance

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Renaissance glory on the Secret Garden stage.“It’s just exciting to be working with him again, in a large-scale way, which we did for years and years and years,” Bailey says. “It’s an honor for me to bring him back and give him this platform, which he deserves.”The two last collaborated when Bailey hosted a Tracks reunion years ago at Bailey’s D.C.

nightclub, Town, another fondly remembered dance space no longer with us.Bailey and his partners have, for a while, been developing plans for a new club, still commonly known as Town 2.0, at 1001 North Capitol Street NE.

So, as Bailey plants the final seeds for the Secret Garden, we had to ask, how soon will D.C. be dancing in Town 2.0’s new garden of delights?“Oh, here we go,” came Bailey’s bemused reply. “I just, today, was at a meeting and a walkthrough with a construction company to actually start the project.

I don’t know if you understand that we signed the deal in 2019, but we have yet to actually take control of the building because the landlord has yet to finish the work that they needed to do to actually deliver us a building that could withstand being a nightclub.”So the landlord of the 130-year-old former church building has yet to turn over the site, says Bailey. “But they are close enough that we’re setting up our stuff to get going the second they hand us the keys, which we’re hoping to happen soon.