How less.dance works

One list of everything happening on the Triangle's dance floors, and an honest signal about how sure we are.

Where the events come from

We pull from every source we can find and merge them: Dance Gumbo (the long-standing community calendar, credited on every event it contributes), organizers' own calendar feeds, recurring schedules we maintain, trusted scene scouts, and dancers who submit events. The same event from four places becomes one listing that shows all four sources.

What the confidence chip means

Confirmed — seen in more than one independent source, or confirmed by the organizer, and checked recently.
Likely — one good source, checked recently, or a long-running series with consistent history.
Unconfirmed — a single source we could not re-verify, a recurring night nobody has confirmed for this date, or an event that vanished from its source. Check with the organizer.
⚠ Reported cancelled — two or more dancers reported it off. We show it, struck through, rather than hiding it.

Today's events are re-checked against their source every 30 minutes. Nothing is ever silently deleted; every removal is logged with a reason.

Our promise

Nothing that indicates truth is ever for sale. Verified and Organizer-confirmed status, the confidence tier, freshness, inclusion in results, and the order of the list can never be bought, influenced, or upgraded by payment — by anyone, in any tier, ever. If we ever show a paid placement it will sit in a visually separate slot, labeled "Promoted" or "Sponsored" in plain text, never mixed into the chronological feed. Basic inclusion is free, forever.

Help keep it right

Every card has a ⚑. Cancelled tonight, wrong time, wrong venue, wrong price — one tap. Organizers can claim their listings for free and fix them directly.

Take it with you

Subscribe to any filtered view in Apple or Google Calendar and it stays current on its own, or get the Thursday email with the whole weekend.

less.dance is built and run in Durham by Graham Whitley. Say hello: hello@less.dance.