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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Senay Boztas in Amsterdam

‘Dance music should bring people together’: Amsterdam tries to reclaim its night culture

Hands and mobile phones against a backdrop of lights forming triangular stripes and a cube shape at a concert
At the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam last week – part of the five-day Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Rex/Shutterstock

Balanced between a chair on the floor and a dresser stuck to the ceiling, Jordi Ariza Gallego looks around the top room of his club. This Alice-in-Wonderland exhibit is “backstage”; next door is a barber. Below, people are eating in an Indonesian restaurant. The crowded ground floor is showing one-minute erotic films from the Dutch publisher of Butt magazine.

“It’s like a house party, and everyone can visit a different floor,” said the curator behind this arts-cum-party foundation. “I love it that it’s so confusing!”

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