Day One 2026 but make it good AF. What if on day one you came to an event that literally SHAKES OFF the year before (or night before) and opens your body and soul to 2026? Your Rx is Medicine Disco: a beautiful, systemized, dance ritual and social event with no substances, no phones, no shaman culture.
It's electric, theraputic, and funky.
A middle ground between a dope night out at the clubs and a meditative spiritual practice.
The Medicine is the music, the dance. The Disco is the dance party it’s served in.
The host and DJ, Michael V is a highly trained expert at dance music storytelling, fitness training, and movement coaching.
Whether you went wild NYE, or kept things light, MEDICINE DISCO is here for you on DAY ONE.
The music selection will range and scaffold from ambient, to sultry RNB, to disco, to pumping house, afro, latin, jazz, indie pop, rock, electronic, and other genres in order to give the body a rich storyline to dance to.
2:30PM doors open
Enter into loungey tunes and atmosphere.
Freedom to talk, walk around, bounce, stretch, hydrate.
3:00PM the experience begins ( being late won’t feel great )
1. Music is on, Michael V on the mic.
2. Physical and Non-Physical warm up to bring the musculoskeletal and nervous system online.
3. Orientation to the structure of the dance experience and the rules that make it work.
4. Gorgeous sounds for a short guided meditation.
5. Then the dancing begins: Anywhere between a 90 - 120 minute musical journey that feels like we are dancing through a movie - a really good movie
Michael V will punctuate the dance set with cues on the mic to keep us from getting stuck in our heads, in a habitual movement pattern, or accidentally staying small.
We dance and clap and spin and sweat and maybe scream and maybe cry and maybe feel better than we ever did on the first day of the year (or ever).
The dance ends softly so we can bask in the results of our busting ass on the dance floor - kinda like the end of a yoga class.
We rise slowly, lightly, cutesy, with additional soft lounge tunes to bring us back to a place where we can metabolize the effects of the dance and socialize from this post-dance state of being.
6:00pm
Exit knowing that there was no better way to start a year.
DJ MICHAEL V (contact for questions: mv@michaelvadacchino.com)
DJ Michael V is the creator, producer and headlining DJ for Primal Disco and Medicine Disco, PHAT House, No Place Like House, and is the co-creator of The Audacity!. His debut as a DJ in 2022 was at House of Yes in Brooklyn, NY and has been serving NYC and the upstate area regularly. Outside of NY, Michael has played in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, the UK, and Paris.
Michael’s events have been talked about as: “the most diverse crowds…” “the safest dance floors…” “a fresh culture of authenticity, irreverence, and heart-open spirit”
Trained by world renowned DJ, Tasha Blank, Michael uses house, disco, funk and organic music to formulate sets and environments that have people screaming, sweating, laughing, shaking, and breaking (the rules that keep folks small at the clubs).
He is a former competitive gymnast, dancer, and choreographer; If you l are looking for some beats to flip and twist out to, this is your man.
Michael is a lover of gatherings where folx get to be EVERYTHING they are. He is found punctuating his parties with cues on the mic to inspire expression and pulling in parts of people that have been asleep.
He is currently a coach for the Powerhouse DJ School (PhDJ) and a high end audio resource for event producers and DJ’s in the Hudson Valley.