IU seniors plan Club Rotation, Bloomington’s newest dance venue

Club Rotation, the potential new dance club in town, wants to “reinvent the way Bloomington parties.”

Rotation is the brainchild of IU seniors Ryne Shadday and Solomon Hursey.

The two said they saw a need for a dance club in Bloomington and hoped to set it up in about a year.

Bullwinkle’s is the last true dance club in Bloomington, and the dancing now involves having a shoe stuck to the floor, Hursey said.

“The bars are not set up for dancing,” he said.

Hursey said he was inspired by dance clubs he saw while in Europe. He sent Shadday a Facebook message asking him if he still wanted to open the club.

Currently, they are looking for a space in the downtown area and for someone to invest in their idea.

“Investors are not willing to just give money to poor college students,” Shadday said.
Shadday said they’ve been talking to lawyers and local business owners for advice.

The idea behind Rotation is that the themes will rotate about every two to three months, Shadday said.

“Rotation is not completely unpredictable, but it won’t be repetitive,” Hursey said. “It will be new and fresh.”

Recently they had a dance party called “HEAT!” at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater to raise money for the club.

The preopening dance parties will help determine what will work for the club and give Shadday and Hursey a chance to see how the audience will receive the disc jockey, Shadday said.