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🪩 Minister of Sound
🔥 Turning dance floors into houses of healing
🎧 Founder of @phdjschool
👇🏼 We dance October 29 @drop.moves @refuge.nyc

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Someone recently asked me: “You talk a big game … but do you deliver?”

Short answer:

YES WE DO.

That’s why everyone says it’s more than just a DJ school.

Of course, only you can put in the work to make it happen.

But if you do? Even the application will up-level you.

Our September cohort is nearly full!

Last call ➡️ PHDJ.DANCE

#DJ #djlovers #djschool by @tashablank

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Drop a 🔥 if you KNOW banning phones from all dance floors would make everything better ⬇️

2 weeks till we do it again 💦💦

SEE YOU AT @houseofyesnyc MAY 29!!! taken in House of YES by @tashablank

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⬇︎⬇︎⬇︎THIS PARTY IS DRIPPING WITH DROP

Primal Disco is arriving at the House of Yes @houseofyesnyc Onyx room in Brooklyn October 23rd and It’s

💧💧💧 dripping with the cherished values, ritual, and mechanics of The Drop with a 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙗𝙚.

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We didn’t go to Tasha’s school for no reason.
@tashablank @phdjschool

We went because we ＮＥＥＤＭＯＲＥ dance floors that feel like The Drop.
@drop.moves

We went because you can’t just copy and paste a phenomenon like The Drop, It takes hundreds of hours of study into:

𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪 Embodiment

🎬🎬🎬Storytelling

𓁿𓁿𓁿 Ritual

𖠋♡𖠋 Space holding

Which PhDJ Delivered :)

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Primal Disco has been selling out of venues since its founder Michael V launched it in 2022.
@primal.disco

Almost 5 years later, the party is now produced by PhDJ coaches, Michael V and Eliza J.
@michaelvadacchino @elizaj.dj

After selling out the iconic nightclub, Monarch, in San Francisco and climbing to 500+ attendees at the Great Northern club this summer, we are excited to start a new chapter in NYC.

🐅We let the animal out Oct 23rd

👋Tag someone who needs this taken in House of Yes by @tashablank

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3 hours till THE EMPTY SPACE ~ our first ever half day workshop together, exploring the movement + somatic theater work we’ve been developing in our residential retreats for the past 2 years.

Excited to dive into the unknown with the courageous folks who’ve signed up! We have 2 spots left, link is in my bio ♥️ by @tashablank

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Honestly one of the most challenging set prep experience EVER = creative breakthroughs. My brain wouldn’t follow the same pathways so we had to find some new ones 🔥

BIG LOVE to everyone who made last night possible 😍 @destineeaaliyah @jojosoul @elliottlarue @michellekeinan @move1love

We’ll be back @drop.moves @refuge.nyc October 29!! by @tashablank

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$HOLY SUMMER 🫠 taking stock before it disappears into the school year. This one was a LOT — slowing down was not on the itinerary even tho the need for that is super present. Made it through with an abundance of new core memories thanks to my friends & loves & lots of bone broth. This is entirely out of order except the last one, taken yesterday, my pops fractured his hip & thankfully I have the dopest sister @jessicacblank to do this with ♥️ Spirits are high & he’s gonna be as ok as a 90 year old war veteran with Parkinson’s who didn’t retire till 87 can be 😂 the Blank genes are STRONG 🔥 NEXT UP ▶️ 🎧 @phdjschool starts Tuesday 9.15 🔥 @drop.moves @refuge.nyc Thursday 9.17 ♥️ The Empty Space (new workshop with @bodyw_rk!) Saturday 9.19 See you on the dance floor soon 😘 taken in Planet Earth by @tashablank$

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This explains why the first few weeks of learning to DJ feel ABSOLUTELY INSANE 🎧

Get ready PhDJs! The journey begins in less than 1 week 🚀

Excellent summary from @thevicfix 🪩🙏🏼 by @tashablank

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BACK TO SCHOOL EDITION // Which one is the energy you need to show up for September?

(I’ll have ALL OF THEM please & thank you) by @tashablank

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If this is you: what does music do for your brain that nothing else does?

Drop it in the comments!
I’m VERY CURIOUS.

Personally, extremely grateful:

- My mom let me practice my vocabulary words while walking in perfect squares around the living room carpet while jazz played in the background

- My art teacher @waltbartman played Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth while we painted

- I have access to infinite possible soundscapes to choose from when attempting to figure out WTF I am feeling

- That DJing is a career ;)

THE STUDIES (including one I cut from this carousel because if my brain didn’t have the span for all of em yours might not either 😂)

1. Autism + using music to cope
Why Music Matters: Comparing Music Use for Mood Regulation and Coping in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-026-07319-y

2. Using sensory input to increase focus
Contrasting effects of music on reading comprehension in preadolescents with and without ADHD
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32559672/

3. Autism + enhanced visual processing / embedded patterns
Enhanced visual functioning in autism: An ALE meta-analysis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21465627/

4. Autism + implicit pattern learning
Enhanced Visual Statistical Learning in Adults with Autism
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4340818/

5. Autism + embodied emotional processing through music
Bridging internal states with music: An exploratory analysis of music-induced embodied emotion regulation in autistic youth and young adults
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41386178/ by @tashablank

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Tasha Blank | DJ + Dance Educator

@tashablank